cutions and convulsions-The translation of the
Bible-How biblical events and Hebraic senti-
ments are in accordance with contemporary
manners and with the English character-The
Prayer Book-Moral and manly feeling of the
prayers and church service-Preaching-Latimer
-His education-Character-Familiar and per-
suasive eloquence-Death-The martyrs under
Mary-England thenceforth Protestant

IV. The Anglicans-Close connection between religion

and society-How the religious sentiment pene-

trates literature-How the sentiment of the

beautiful subsists in religion - Hooker- -His

breadth of mind and the fulness of his style-

Hales and Chillingworth-Praise of reason and

tolerance-Jeremy Taylor - His learning, im-

agination, and poetic feeling

V.

The Puritans-Opposition of religion and the world

-Dogmas-Morality-Scruples—Their triumph

and enthusiasm - Their work and practical

VI. Bunyan-His life, spirit, and poetical work—The

Prospect of Protestantism in England

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CHAPTER VI.

Milton.

I.

II.

General idea of his mind and character-Family-

Education-Studies - Travels-Return to Eng-

Effects of a concentrated and solitary character-

Austerity-Inexperience - Marriage - Children

-Domestic Troubles

240

246

II. Combative energy-Polemic against the bishops-

Against the king-Enthusiasm and sternness—

Theories on government, church, and education

-Stoicism and virtue-Old age, occupations,

person

IV. Milton's residence in London and the country-

General appearance

V.

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Milton as a prose-writer-Changes during three
centuries in countenances and ideas-Heaviness
of his logic-The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
-Heavy Humour - Animadversions upon the

Remonstrant's Defence-Clumsiness of discussion

-Defensio Populi Anglicani-Violence of his

animosities-The reason of Church Government—

Eikonoklastes-Liberality of Doctrines-Of Refor-

mation-Areopagitica-Style-Breadth of elo-

quence-Wealth of imagery-Lyric sublimity

of diction

VI. Milton as a poet-How he approaches and is distinct

from the poets of the Renaissance-How he gives

poetry a moral tone-Profane poems-L'Allegro

and Il Penseroso·

Comus-Lycidas-Religious

poems-Paradise Lost-Conditions of a genuine

epic-They are not to be met with in the age

or in the poet-Comparison of Adam and Eve

with an English family-Comparison of God and

the angels to a monarch's court-The rest of the

poem-Comparison between the sentiments of

Satan and the republican passions-Lyrical and

moral character of the scenery-Loftiness and

sense of the moral ideas-Situation of the poet

and the poem between two ages-Composition of

his genius and his work

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279

I.

BOOK III.-THE CLASSIC AGE.

CHAPTER I.

The Restoration.

I. THE ROISTERERS.

PAGH

The excesses of Puritanism-How they induce ex-

cesses of sensuality

320

II.

Picture of these manners by a stranger-The Mémoires

de Grammont-Difference of debauchery in France

and England

III. Butler's Hudibras-Platitude of his comic style, and

harshness of his rancorous style

V.

324

328

332

IV. Baseness, cruelty, brutality, debauchery, of the court

-Rochester, his life, poems, style, morals

Philosophy consonant with these manners-Hobbes,

his spirit and his style-His curtailments and

his discoveries-His mathematical method-

In how much he resembles Descartes-His

morality, æsthetics, politics, logic, psychology,

metaphysics-Spirit and aim of his philosophy. 342

VI. The theatre-Alteration in taste, and in the public-

Audiences before and after the Restoration

VII. Dryden Disparity of his comedies-Unskilfulness of

his indecencies-How he translates Molière's

Amphitryon.

VIII. Wycherley-Life-Character-Melancholy, greed,

immodesty-Love in a Wood, Country Wife,

Dancing Master-Licentious pictures, and re-

pugnant details-His energy and realism-Parts

of Olivia and Manly in his Plain Dealer—

Certain words of Milton's Paradise Lost

350

353

357

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2. THE WORLDLINGS.

Appearance of the worldly life in Europe-Its
conditions and causes-How it was established in

England-Etiquette, amusements, conversations,
manners, and talents of the drawing-room

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371

II. Dawn of the classic spirit in Europe-Its origin-

Its nature-Difference of conversation under

Elizabeth and Charles II.

375

III. Sir William Temple-His life, character, spirit, and

style

378

IV. Writers of fashion-Their correct language and

gallant bearing-Sir Charles Sedley, the Earl

of Dorset, Edmund Waller-His opinions and

style-Wherein consists his polish-Wherein

he is not sufficiently polished--Culture of style

—Lack of poetry-Character of monarchical and

classic style

V.

Sir John Denham-His poem of Cooper's Hill-

Oratorical swell of his verse— -English seriousness

of his moral preoccupations-How people of

fashion and literary men followed then the

fashions of France

VI. The comic-authors-Comparison of this theatre with
that of Molière-Arrangement of ideas in Molière
-General ideas in Molière-How in Molière
the odious is concealed, while the truth is de-
picted-How in Molière the honest man is still
the man of the world-How the respectable man
of Molière is a French type

VII. Action-Complication of intrigues-Frivolity of

purpose-Crudeness of the characters-Grossness

of manners Wherein consists the talent of

Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar

Kind of characters they are able to produce

385

395

399

409

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VIII. Natural characters-Sir John Brute, the husband;

Squire Sullen-Sir Tunbelly, the father-Miss

Hoyden, the young lady-Squire Humphry, the

young gentleman-Idea of nature according to

this theatre

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414

IX. Artificial characters-Women of the world-Miss
Prue, Lady Wishfort, Lady Pliant, Mrs. Millamant
-Men of the world-Mirabell-Idea of society
according to this theatre-Why this culture
and this literature have not produced durable
works-Wherein they are opposed to the English
character-Transformation of taste and manners
I. The continuation of comedy-Sheridan-Life-
Talent The School for Scandal-How comedy
degenerates and is extinguished-Causes of the
decay of the theatre in Europe and in England. 432

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