preceding time, in our own or in any other country, has Anonymous Periodical Criticism ever acquired nearly the same ascendancy and power. It might be interesting to consider how and in how far, if at all, our literature may be likely to be thereby affected, whether in its actual state or in its tendencies and prospects. As for the Anonymity, however, which might seem to be the most important of the three combined elements, it is for the greater part only formal. Of writing the authorship of which is really unknown there probably never was less than there is in the present day. And the custom according to which the name of the writer is withheld in certain cases is obviously one of great convenience. More especially, it is indispensable for any free criticism touching living persons in regard to such points as are never discussed with or in the presence of a man himself in ordinary society. Not, indeed, that the necessary boldness and effrontery, or honesty, if you will, might not be forthcoming in abundance under a system which allowed no public writer to assume a mask or a veil; but that the proceeding would outrage our notions of common decency and common humanity. The only way in which the truth, all the truth, and nothing but the truth can be spoken in the case supposed is by means of a voice, which is no doubt that of an individual, and may even be perfectly well known to be that of a certain individual, but yet does not offensively proclaim itself as such, nay rather claims to be taken for that of nobody in particular. The old proverb would have us say nothing but what is good, nothing but what is complimentary, of the dead: De mortuis nil nisi bonum; but in point of fact it is rather of the living that we usually speak under that restriction. Neither, besides, is it easy-often to make up one's mind about even the greatest man while he is still running his course. He dazzles you, or he eludes you. Not till the night of death has closed upon him does any calm and clear observation of him become practicable. The stars themselves are invisible in the daytime. 545 INDEX. Arbuthnot, Dr. John, ii. 245 Ash, Simon, vide Fresne, du. Astronomy and astrology, 147 Atterbury, Bishop, ii. 191, 246 Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury, 18 Austen, Miss, ii. 534 Avesbury, Robert of, 154 Ayton, Sir Robert, ii, 270 B, Bacon, Francis, 585; ii. 128 Alliterative verse, 184, 224, 228, 241, Bacon, Roger, 144, 148 243 Alured, vide Alfred. Americanisms, ii. 526, 527 Ancren Riwle, the, 198, 204 Ancrum, Robert Ker, Earl of, ii. 270 Andrews, Bishop, 582 Aneurin, 7, 17 Angles and Saxons, 29, 31 Anglo-Norman poets, 108, 163 Anglo-Saxon, vide Original English. Anglo-Saxons, the, 29 Anne, age of, ii. 433, 435 Anonymous writing, ii. 543 Anselm, 50, 53, 60 Anster, John, 30, ii. 515 Anstey, Christopher, ii. 289 Apollonius of Tyre, 39 VOL. II. Baillie, Joanna, ii. 397, 515, 517 Baker, Sir R. ii. 72 Baldwynne, Richard, 438 Bale's Kynge Johan, 453 Ballad poetry of Scotland, ii. 273.-New Bannatyne, George, ii. 272 Barbauld, Mrs. ii. 515 Barbour, John, 317 Barclay, John, 593 Bards, Welsh, 17 Barklay, Alexander, 425 Barrow, Dr. Isaac, ii. 118, 161 Barton, B. ii. 512 Baxter, Andrew, ii. 335 Baxter, Richard, ii. 118, 175 Beattie, Dr. James, ii. 289, 336 Beaulieu, vide Guichard. Beaumont, Francis, 572; ii. 2, 4, 105 Beda, or Bede, 10, 21 Behn, Aphra, ii. 106 Bellenden, John, 421 Bellenden, William, ii. 429 Benedict, Bishop, 10, 18, 28 Bentley, Dr. Richard, ii. 191, 209 Berkeley, Bishop, ii, 335 Bible, English, 339, 580 Bigott, Hugh, Rhyming Boast, 176 Blesensis, Petrus, vide Blois. Bloomfield, R. ii. 513 Bolingbroke, Lord, ii. 247, 297, 318 Bologna, University of, 55 Bonus Sylvius, vide Coil. Borron, Robert de, 122 Boson, 128 Boswell, James, ii, 428 Botoner, William, 370 Bower, Walter, 156 Bowles, Rev. William Lisle, ii. 397, 511 Boyle and Bentley controversy, ii. 190, 209 Boyle, Hon. Robert, ii. 143, 157, 175 Brandan, Pilgrimage of St., 111 Brontë, Miss, ii, 534 Brooke, Frances (Moore), Mrs. ii. 295, 298 Celtic Languages, relationship to Gothic, 14 Brooke, Charlotte, ii. 397 Chapone, Hester (Mulso), Mrs. ii. 296 Charlemagne, Anglo-Norman poem, 112 Charter, The Great, 131 Chaucer, Geoffrey, poetry of, 246-306 Chroniclers, English, 372, 592; ii. 72 Chroniclers, French, 371 Chroniclers, Latin, 71, 151, 369 Churchill, Charles, ii. 41, 287 Cibber, Colley, ii. 257 Clare, J. ii. 513 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, ii. 107 Classical learning, vide Latin and Greek, Cobbett, William, ii. 254, 529 Coil the Good, 7 Cokayne, vide Land of. Coleridge, ii. 456-473, 517 Collins, John, ii. 164 Collins, William, ii. 266 Colman, George, ii. 293, 298 Dalrymple, Sir David (Lord Hailes), ii. 340 Daniel, Samuel, 530, 592 D'Arblay, Frances (Burney), Madame, ii. Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, ii. 363, 381 Davenant, Dr. Charles, ii. 190 Davenant, Sir William, ii, 100, 105 David, chanson by, 114 Davie, Adam, 219 De Quincey, ii. 529, 533 Colman, George, the Younger, ii. 394, Decasyllabic verse, 249 426 Decker, Thomas, 569 Defoe, Daniel, ii. 253, 276 Dickens, ii. 532 Diction, vide Expression. Digges, Leonard and Thomas, ii. 126 Dillon, vide Roscommon. Dollond, John, ii. 345 Domesday Book, 95 Donne, Dr. John, 551, 584 Cowley, Hannah (Parkhouse), Mrs., ii. Door-posts, ii. 66 293, 294 Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, ii. 100 Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, vide Erigena, Joannes Scotus, 19, 59 Sackville. Douglas of Glastonbury, 372 Douglas, Gawin, 432 Drama, and Dramatic Writers, 443, 446, 451, 458, 464; ii. 2, 105, 256, 292 Dramatic Poetry, ii. 517 Essayists, vide Periodical. Ethelstan, 24 Ethelwerd, 23 Etherege, Sir George, ii. 106, 172 Dramatists, Early English, education of, Euripides, Translation from, 462 Europe, Languages of Modern, 3 Everard, 117 Exactness in writing, ii. 541, 542 Exeter, Walter of, 167 Expression, Fashion of, ii, 523 F. Fables, Dryden's Dedication of his, ii. 102 E. Eadmer, 69, 82 Fabyan, Robert, 372 Fairfax, Edward, 548 Falconer, William, ii. 289 English, England, original form of these Fletcher, John, 572; ii. 2, 4, 105 names, 31 English Language, 28, 29, 30, 32 Fletcher, Phineas, ii. 7 Florence of Worcester, 78, 80 English Language, Antiquity of, 30 English Language, its Connexion with English Language of 12th and 13th cen- English Language, Peculiarities of, 46 English Language, Revolutions of, 32, 133, France, Prediction of Revolution in, ii. 114, 136, 140, 141, 171, 172 English Literature, Antiquity of, 31 English, Second, 173 English Verse, Remains of Early, 173 115 Francis, Sir Philip, ii. 303 French Language in England, 96 |