A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest

INDEX.

ABBAS, vide Benedictus.
Abelard, Peter, 77, 79, 80.

Abuses Stript and Whipt, Introduction
to, quoted, ii. 45-48.
Accentual verse, 248, 270.
Achromatic Telescope, ii. 364.

Adam Bede, authoress of, ii. 558.
Adamnan, 40.

Addison, Joseph, ii. 248.

Adney, Timothy or Thomas, ii. 404.
Adrian, Abbot, 29, 38.

Adrian IV., Pope, 77.

Anglo-Saxons, the, 48.
Anne, age of, ii. 453-455.
Anonymous writing, ii. 566.
Anselm, 70, 72, 79.
Anster, John, ii. 540.

Anstey, Christopher, ii. 306.
Apollonius of Tyre, 59.

Arabic and other new Learning, 67.
Arabic numerals, 166.

Arbuthnot, Alexander, ii. 290.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, ii. 262.

Arcot, Speech on the case of the Nabob
of, quoted, ii. 345, 346.

Ariosto, translation from, 486.

Affliction of Margaret, The, quoted, ii. Aristotelian logic, 163.

462-464.

Age, Style of the, ii. 550.

Aikin, Anna L., vide Barbauld.
Ailred, 103.

Akenside, Dr. Mark, ii. 287.

Albert, Abbot, 47.

Albion's England, quoted, 551-556.

Alchemists, 167, 390.

Alcuin, Flaccus. 46.

Alderson, Amelia, vide Opie.

Aldhelm, Abbot, 29.

Aldred, Archbishop, Curse of, 194.

Alexander the Great, romances on, 185.
Alfred the Great, 42, 59, 60, 61.

Alfred, or Alured, of Beverley, 105.
Alfric, or Æltric, 59, 61.

Algebra, advancement in, ii. 136.
Alice of Louvain, 129, 134.

Alison, ii. 544.

Alliterative verse, 204, 245, 249, 262,
265.

Alured, vide Alfred.

Americanisms, ii. 551, 552.

Amygdala Britannica, quoted, ii. 51-53.
Anatomy, advancement in, ii. 136, 148.
Ancren Riwle, the, 218-225.

Ancrum, Robert Ker, Earl of, ii. 288.
Anderson, Adam, ii. 360.

Andrews, Bishop, 610.

Andrews, Miles Peter, ii. 404.

Aneurin, 27, 37.

Angles and Saxons, 48, 50.

Anglo-Norman poets, 128, 183.

Anglo-Saxon, vide Original English.

VOL. II.

Arithmetic, ii. 138.

Armstrong, Dr. John, ii. 287.
Art, ostentation of, ii. 565.
Arthurian romance, 141.

Artistic, enjoyment of the, ii. 502.
Arundel MS., quoted, 354.
Ascham, Roger, 442.

Ash, Simon, vide Fresne, du.
Asser, 42, 44.

Astronomy and astrology, 166.
Atterbury, Bishop, ii. 205, 263.

Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury,

38.

Barclay, John, 620.

Bards, Welsh, 37.

Barklay, Alexander, 449.

Barre, Luc de la, 139.

Barrow, Dr. Isaac, ii. 133, 176.

Barton, B., ii. 537.

Bath, Earl of, ii. 316.

Batheaston poetry, ii. 402.

Bradley, James, ii. 362.
Brady, Dr. Nicholas, ii. 187.
Brahe, Tycho, ii. 136.
Brakelonda, Jocelin de, 113.
Brandan, Pilgrimage of St., 130.
Briggs, Henry, ii. 143, 145, 147.
Britannia's Pastorals, quoted, ii. 56-58.
Bromton, Chronicon Joannis, 173.

Battle of the Books, ii. 207; quoted, ii. Brontë, Miss, ii. 558.

224-228.

Baxter, Andrew, ii. 354.

Baxter, Richard, ii. 132, 188.

Beattie, Dr. James, ii. 306, 355.
Beaulieu, vide Guichard.

Beaumont, Francis, 600; ii. 12, 14, 119.
Becket, Thomas à, 77, 238.
Beda, or Bede, 30, 41.

Bees, vide Fable of the Bees.
Behn, Aphra, ii. 121.
Bellenden, John, 445.
Bellenden, William, ii. 449.
Benedict, Bishop, 30, 38, 48.
Benedictus, Abbas, 110.
Benoît, 136.

Bentham, Jeremy, ii. 544.

Bentley, Dr. Richard, ii. 205, 224.
Beowulf, 57.

Berkeley, Bishop, ii. 353.

Beverley, vide Alfred.
Bible, English, 362, 607.

Bigott, Hugh, Rhyming Boast, 196.
Bikez, Robert, 187.
Blackford, Mary, vide Tighe.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, ii. 69.
Blackwood's Magazine, ii. 544, 554.
Blagrave, John, ii. 142.
Blair, Dr., ii. 452.

Blair, Rev. Robert, ii. 286.
Blank verse, 459, 480, 481.
Blenerhasset, Thomas, 463.
Blesensis, Petrus, vide Blois.
Blois, Peter of, 82.
Bloomfield, R., ii. 538.
Blundevile, M., ii. 142.
Blyth, John, ii. 290.

Bolingbroke, Lord, ii. 264-269, 335.

Bologna, University of, 74.

Boniface, St, 31.

Bonus, Sylvius, vide Coil.

Books and Libraries, 385-387.

Books, scarcity of, 47.

Borron, Elie de, 143.

Borron, Robert de, 142.
Boson, 147.

Boswell, James, ii. 404, 448.
Botany, ii. 137.

Botoner, William, 394.
Bower, Walter, 175.

Bowles, Rev. William Lisle, ii. 416, 537.
Boyle and Bentley controversy, ii. 205,
224.

Boyle, Hon. Charles, ii. 205.

Boyle, Hon. Robert, ii. 158, 172, 189.

Brooke, Charlotte, ii. 416.

Brooke, Frances (Moore), Mrs., ii. 313,
316.

Broome, William, ii. 279.
Brougham, Lord, ii. 544.
Brouncker, Lord, ii. 164, 174.
Brown, Thomas, ii. 544.

Browne, Felicia D., vide Hemans.
Browne, Sir Thomas, ii. 80.
Browne, William, ii. 55.
Browning, Mrs., ii. 556, 561.
Browning, R., ii. 556.

Bruce, The, quoted, 345-353.
Brunanburg, battle of, 58.
Brunne, Robert de, 238.
Brunton, Mary, ii. 544.
Brut, 134, 198-211.

Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, ii. 40.
Buckhurst, Thomas Sackville, Lord, vide
Sackville.

Buckingham, George Villiers (second)
Duke of, ii. 113, 119.
Bull, Bishop, ii. 188.
Bunyan, John, ii. 134.

Burges, Sir James Bland, ii. 415.
Burgess, Bishop, ii. 450.

Burke, Edmund, ii. 328-353, 369, 447,
565.

Burke's Speech at Bristol, quoted, ii.

341-344; Letters, quoted, ii. 348-353.

Burnet, Bishop, ii. 189, 288.

Burnet, Dr. Thomas, ii. 184, 191.

Burnett, James, vide Monboddo.

Burney, Frances, vide D'Arblay.

Burns, Robert, ii. 417-446; his poems

quoted, ii. 419-444.

Buron, Heyle de, 143.
Burton, Robert, 618.

Butler, Bishop, ii. 354.

Butler, Samuel, ii. 99.

Byron, ii. 518-521, 536, 539, 543, 544,
556.

Byron, Commodore, ii. 368.

Cædmon, 57.

Cæsalpinus of Arezzo, ii. 149.
Calculus, vide William de Jumieges.
Cambrensis, vide Giraldus.
Cambridge, University of, 75.
Camden, William, 620.

Campbell, Dr. George, ii. 354, 451

Caxton, William, 362, 381, 383-385, Comines, Philip de, 394.

395.

Celestius, 27.

Celtic in English, 33.

Celtic Languages, 32.

Celtic Languages, relationship to Gothic,
33.

Century, commencement of a new, ii.
453.

Ceolfrid, Abbot, 30.

Chalmers, George, ii. 408, 451, 544.
Chapman, George, 572, 593.

Chapone, Hester (Mulso), Mrs., ii. 314.
Chardry, 186.

Charlemagne, Anglo-Norman poem, 132.
Charles I., ii. 38, 59.
Charter, The Great, 150.
Chatterton, Thomas, ii. 309.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, poetry of, 266-328.
Chaucer, prose of, 366, 434.
Chaucer's Verse, 269-290.

Chemistry, ii 137.

Cheselden, William, ii. 183.
Chesterfield, Earl of, ii. 316.
Chettle, Henry, 597.
Child, Sir Josiah, ii. 204.
Chillingworth, William, ii. 63.
Chorus in English plays, 480.
Chrétien de Troyes, 142, 143.
Christabel, quoted, ii. 490.
Chronicle Histories (Dramatic), 476.
Chronicle, The National, 58, 60.
Chroniclers, Anglo-Norman, 132.
Chroniclers, English, 395, 620; ii. 84.
Chroniclers, French, 394.

Chroniclers, Latin, 90, 91, 171, 393.
Churchill, Charles, ii. 53, 305.
Churchyard, Thomas, 462.
Cibber, Colley, ii. 274.

Clapperton, ii. 290.

Clare, J., ii. 538.

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, ii. 121.
Clarke, Dr Samuel, ii. 353.

Classical Learning, 83-87, 416-433, 620;
ii. 85. Vide Latin and Greek.
Cleveland, John, ii. 33-42; his poems,
quoted, ii. 36-42.
Cobbe, James, ii. 404.

Commonwealth, Literature of the, ii. 86
Compass, Variation of the, observed by
Columbus, ii. 136.

Complaint, The, quoted. ii. 487.
Complaynt of Scotland, 445.
Compound English, vide Third English.
Conches, William de, 80.

Confessio Amantis, quoted, 334-338.
Congreve, William, ii. 273.
Conquests, three kinds of, 61.
Conversation, quoted, ii. 377.
Conybeare, John J, 55.

Copernicus, his System of the Universe,
ii. 136.

Corbet, Bishop, ii. 21.
Cork, Earl of, ii. 316.
Cormac MacCulinan, 35.

Coster, Lawrence Janszoon, 379.

Cotes, Roger, ii. 179.

Cotton, Charles, ii. 114.

Cowley, Abraham, ii. 98, 119.

Cowley, Hannah (Parkhouse), Mrs., ii.

311, 312.

Cowper, William, ii. 183.

Cowper, William, (the poet,) ii. 370-
381.

Crabbe, George, ii. 370, 371, 417, 508,
509, 513-516, 518, 556, 565; his poems
quoted, ii. 511-516.

Crabtree, William, ii. 146.
Cranmer, Archbishop, 438.
Crashaw, Richard, ii. 20.
Critical Element, ii. 566.

Critical Writers of the Eighteenth Cen-
tury, ii. 360.

Croly, G., ii. 540.

Cromwell, Oliver, ii. 34-36, 41, 42, 105-
109, 200, 201.

Cromwell, Richard, ii. 109.
Crowne, John, ii. 119.
Cudworth, Dr. Ralph, ii. 132.
Cumberland, Bishop, ii. 188.
Cumberland, Epistle to the Countess of
quoted, 561, 562.

Cumberland, Richard, ii. 311, 415.
Cuminius, 40.

Cunningham, A., ii. 539.

Curse of Kehama, quoted, ii. 498-500.
Cuthbert, St., 31.

Dalrymple, Sir David (Lord Hailes), ii.
359.

Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 359.
Dalton, ii. 545.

Daniel, Samuel, 505, 556–562, 619.
D'Arblay, Frances (Burney), Madame,
ii. 313, 448, 544.

Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, ii. 381-399.
Davenant, Dr. Charles, ii. 204.
Davenant, Sir William, ii. 114, 119.
David, chanson by, 134.
Davie, Adam, 240.
Davies, Sir John, 577.
Davy, Sir Humphry, ii. 545.

Day Dream, A, quoted, ii. 491, 492.
Decasyllabic verse, 270.
Decker, Thomas, 597.
Dee, John, ii. 140.

Defoe, Daniel, ii. 270, 294.
Dejection, quoted, ii. 484, 485.

Della Cruscan Poetry, ii. 402-407.
Denham, Sir John, ii. 33.

De Quincey, Thomas, ii. 554, 557.
Devises, vide Richard.
Dibdin, Charles, ii. 447.

Diceto, vide Ralph.

Dickens, ii. 557.

Diction, vide Expression.

Digges, Leonard and Thomas, ii. 141.
Dillon, vide Roscommon.
Dollond, John, ii. 364.

Domesday Book, 115.

Don Juan, quoted, ii. 520.
Donne, Dr. John, 579-583, 611.
Door-posts, ii. 78.

Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, ii. 114.
Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, ii. 114.
Douglas, Gawin, 456.

Douglas of Glastonbury, 395.

Drama, and Dramatic Writers, 467, 470,

475, 482, 487; ii. 12. 119, 273, 309.

Dramatic Poetry, ii. 543.

Eadmer, 89, 101.
Earle, Bishop, ii. 77.

Earliest English Scholarship, Decay of
41.

Eastern Tale, quoted, ii. 531-533.
Economy of Vegetation, quoted, ii. 385–
392, 396.

Eddius Stephanus, 32.

Edgeworth, Miss, ii. 544, 558.
Edinburgh Review, ii. 544, 554.
Edwards, Richard, 484.
Egbert, Archbishop, 38, 47.
Egyptian Maid, quoted, ii. 474-477.
Eighteenth Century, latter part of the, ii.
369.

Electricity, Progress of Discovery in, ii.
365.

Elizabethan age, 461, 546, 606; ii. 453,
454, 455, 543.

Elizabethan Prose Writers, 495, 606
Ellis, George, ii. 451.
Elmham, Thomas de, 394.
Elyot, Sir Thomas, 437.
Emerson, William, ii. 364.

English, England, original form of these
names, 51.

English Language, 48, 49, 50, 52.
English Language, Antiquity of, 50.

English Language, its Connection with
Welsh and Irish, 33.

English Language, its Family, 25, 49.
English Language of 12th and 13th cen-
turies, 158.

English Language, Peculiarities of, 66.
English Language, Resurrection of, in
the 14th century, 190.

English Language, Revolutions of, 52,
152, 155, 160, 161, 191, 192.
English Literature, Antiquity of, 51.
English Scholarship, Decay of the ear-
liest, 41.

English, Second, 193.

English Verse, Remains of early, 193.
Erigena, Joannes Scotus, 39, 79.
Erskine, Thomas, ii. 544.

Dramatists, Early English, education of, Essayists, vide Periodical.

Este, Rev. Charles, ii. 404.

Ethelbert, Laws of, 59.

Ethelstan, 43.

Drummond, William, 577; ii. 288.
Dryden, John, ii. 115-119, 186, 187.

Du Bartas, translation of, and Sylvester's

dedication, quoted, 570-572

Dufay, ii. 366.

Dunbar, William, 456.

Dunciad. quoted, ii. 246–248.

Dunstable, Ralph, 89.

Dunstan, 45.

Durham, or Dunelmensis, vide Simeon.
Dyer, John, ii. 276.

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