these which at such a moment gathered in this bruised heart all the splendours of nature and history, to make them spring up in sparkling jets, and shine under the most glowing poetic sun that ever rose! We feel pity; we think of that other poet, away there in the Isle of Wight, who amuses himself by dressing up lost epics. How happy he is amongst his fine books, his friends, his honeysuckles and roses! matter. De Musset, in this very spot, in this filth and misery, rose higher. From the heights of his doubt and despair, he saw the infinite, as we see the sea from a storm-beaten promontory. Religions, their glory and their decay, the human race, its pangs and its destiny, all that is sublime in the world, appeared there to him in a flash of lightning. He felt, at least this once in his life, the inner tempest of deep sensations, giant-dreams, and intense voluptuousness, whose desire enabled him to live, and whose lack forced him to die. He was no mere dilettante; he was not content to taste and enjoy; he left his mark on human thought; he told the world what was man, love, truth, happiness. He suffered, but he invented; he fainted, but he produced. He tore from his entrails with despair the idea which he had conceived, and showed it to the eyes of all, bloody but alive. That is harder and lovelier than to go fondling and gazing upon the ideas of others. There is in the world but one work worthy of a man, the production of a truth, to which we devote ourselves, and in which we believe. The people who have listened to Tennyson are better than our aristocracy of townsfolk and bohemians; but I prefer Alfred de Musset to Tennyson. INDEX. ABELARD, i. 133, 135. Alexander vI., Pope, i. 354. Angelo, Michael, i. 155, 306; ii. 213. Anglo-Saxon poetry, i. 41 seq. Ann of Cleves, i. 157. Beattie, James, ii. 182, 220. Becket, Thomas à, i. 80. Beethoven, Lewis van, ii. 259. Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Béranger, i. 359; ii. 418. Berkeley, Bishop, ii. 69. Berkley, Sir Charles, i. 466. Architecture, Norman, i. 60, 61, 107; Best, Paul, i. 391. the Tudor style, 147. Ariosto, i. 156, 187; ii. 14. Aristocracy, British, in the nineteenth Arnold, Dr. Thomas, ii. 270, 334. Arthur and Merlin, romance of, i. 62. Austen, Jane, ii. 258. Bible, English. See Wiclif, Tyndale. Boileau, i. 469, 501; ii. 3, 36, 54, 196, Boleyn, Ann, i. 232. Bolingbroke, Lord (Henry St. John), ii. 46 seq., 69, 197, 396. Bossu (or Lebossu), ii. 3, 106, 110. Balzac, Honoré de, i. 3; ii. 361, 392. Boyle, the Hon. Robert, ii. 69. Barclay, Alexander, i. 138. Barclay, John, ii. 60. Barclay, Robert, i. 398. Barrow, Isaac, ii. 60, 63 seq. Baxter, Richard, i. 225, 396; ii. 60. Bayly's (Lewis) Practice of Piety, i. Bridaine, Father, ii. 65. Britons, ancient, i. 29. Bronte, Charlotte (Currer Bell), ii. Browne, Sir Thomas, i. 207, 208, 213- Browning, Mrs., ii. 270, 337. Brunanburh, Athelstan's victory at, Buckle, Henry Thomas, ii. 316 seq., 333. Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton, ii. 258, 337. Burleigh, Lord (William Cecil), i. 230; Burnet, Bishop, ii. 60. Busby, Dr. Richard, ii. 31. Butler, Samuel, i. 463-466; ii. 70. Byron, Lord, ii. 200, 242; his life and CEDMON, hymns of, i. 45, 48; his Carteret, John (Earl Granville), ii. 76. Catherine, St., play of, i. 61. Chalmers, George, i. 56. | Christianity, introduction of, into Clarke, Dr. John, ii. 58, 68. Classical authors translated, i. 152, Clive, Lord, ii. 406. 480. Congreve, William, i. 504-522 ; ii. 53. Cowper, William, ii. 243-247. Crowne, John, i. 479. Curll, Edmund, ii. 205. Chandos, Duke of (John Brydges), ii. DANIEL, Samuel, i. 207. 197. Chapman, George, i. 269. Charles of Orleans, i. 69, 132. Charles I. of England, ii. 409. Charles II. and his court, i. 466 seq. Chaucer, i. 86, 87, 105, 132; ii. 39. Chevy Chase, ballad of, i. 104. Dante, i. 113, 132, 135, 442; ii. 457. Darwin, Charles, i. 10. Chillingworth, William, i. 207, 379, Dennis, John, ii. 93. 381; ii. 67. Descartes, i. 473; ii. 11, 456. Dickens, Charles, ii. 258, 270; his Fletcher, John, i. 245, 258-266, 384, 387, 433. Dorset, Earl of (Charles Sackville), i. Fox, Charles James, ii. 48, 76, 80 497, 498. Drake, Admiral, i. 146. Drake, Dr. Nathan, i. 146, 228. Dudevant, Madame (George Sand), ii. 355. Dunstan, St., i. 28 seq. EARLE, John, i. 208. seq. Fox, George, i. 393, 398, 460: GAIMAR, Geoffroy, i. 61, 75. painter, i. 530. Thomas, landscape Garrick, David, ii. 185, 188. Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth C., ii. 258, 337. Eddas, the Scandinavian, i. 32-36; Geoffrey of Monmouth, i. 112. ii. 289. Edgeworth, Maria, ii. 391. Edward VI., i. 373. Edwy and Elgiva, story of, i. 29, 30. English Constitution, formation of Elizabeth, Queen, i. 148-150, 207, 228. FALKLAND, Lord, i. 207. Feltham, Owen, i. 208. Fenn, Sir John, i. 145. Ferguson, Dr. Adam, ii. 71, 406. Fermor, Mrs. Arabella, ii. 203, 204. Feudalism, the protection and charac- Fichte, ii. 457. German ideas, introduction of, in Europe and England, ii. 452 seq. Go' smith, Oliver, i. 523; ii. 73, 182- Goltzius, i. 165. Gower, John, i. 73, 136. Grammont, Count de, i. 462, 489, 490. Gray, Thomas, ii. 220. Greene, Robert, i. 173, 176, 177, 236, Grenville, George, ii. 75. Guizot, i. 89; ii. 409, 414, 433. Fielding, Henry, i. 268, 462; ii. HABINGTON, William, i. 203. 170-176, 190. Filmore, Sir Robert, ii. 72. Finsborough, Battle of, an Anglo- Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester, i. Flemish artists, i. 144, 150. VOL. II. Hackluyt, Richard, i. 207. 2 M |