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10446.4.5
HARVARD
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OCT 8 1941
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS,
WHITEFRIARS.
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Milton in Italy
Milton's Return to England.-His Occupations and his
first Controversial Works
Milton's Marriage
Milton's Treatise on Divorce
Speech on the Liberty of the Press
Death of Milton's Father.-Historical Events.-Treatise
on the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
Milton, Latin Secretary to the Council of State of the
Commonwealth.-The " Eiconoclastes"
Defence of the English People against Salmasius
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37
45
58
Liberation of Greece
Milton's Blindness.-His Despatches
Richard Cromwell.-Milton's Opinions concerning the
Commonwealth, Tithes, and Parliamentary Reform
The Restoration.- Milton arrested, and set at liberty-
The Poet's Fidelity to Cromwell .
New Works of Milton.-His Latin Dictionary-His
Muscovy. His History of England
The Poetical Works of Milton.-Plot of Paradise Lost
Further Particulars concerning Milton
The Publication of Paradise Lost
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69
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105
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. 119
126
Samson Agonistes.—Paradise Regained.-New Logic.—
True Religion.-Death of Milton
Of the Imperfections of Paradise Lost
The Plan of Paradise Lost
Characters of the Persons in Paradise Lost
The Father and the Son
Comparison between the Men and Events of the English
and of the French Revolutions
Danton
The People of both Nations at the Revolutionary Epoch.
-Royalist Peasantry of England
Portrait of a Vendean
Cromwell-Bonaparte
Lovelace. My Detention at the Prefecture of the Police.
-God Save the King.
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Prose. Tillotson-Temple -Burnet Clarendon -Al-
gernon Sidney
Poetry. Dryden-Prior-Waller-Buckingham-Ros-
common-Rochester-Shaftesbury, &c.
Butler.-Neglected Writers
End of the Stuarts
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PART THE FIFTH.
LITERATURE UNDER THE HOUSE OF HANOVER.
Completion and Perfection of the English Language -
Death of Languages
Effect of Criticism on Languages.-Criticism in France.
-Our Vanities.-Death of Languages
231
There will be no more Universal Literary Reputations.
-And for what reason
Other Causes which tend to destroy Universal Reputation 236
William and Mary.-Queen Anne.-Classic School . 242
Periodical Literature.— Addison-Pope-Swift-Steele 245
Transition from Classic Literature to Didactic, Descrip-
tive, and Sentimental Literature.-Poems of different
writers
Young
Gray.-Thomson.-Delille.-Fontanes
Re-action.-Literary Transformation.-Historians.
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251
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265