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Belcher, Sir Edward, 496.

Bell, Andrew, 434.

Bell, Sir Charles, 474.

Bell, John, 289.

Bleak House, by Dickens, 524.
Blenheim, Battle of, by Addison, 230.
Blessington, Margaret, Countess of, 403.
Blind Harry, 49.

Belle of the Ball-Room, by Praed,452. Blomfield, Bishop, 505.

Bellenden, Sir John, 57.

Beloe, William, 366.

Belsham, Thomas, William, 426.

Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy, 436.

Bennett, Benjamin, 259.

Bennett, James, 482.

Bennett, Thomas, 256.

Benson, George, 259.
Benson, Joseph, 425.
Bentham, Edward, 322.
Bentham, Jeremy, 416.
Bentley, Richard, 239.
Berington, Joseph, 376.

Berkeley, Bishop, 237.

Berkenhout, John, 367.

Berners, Lord, 57.

Bevan, Joseph Gurney, 426.
Beveridge, William, 203.

Bible in Spain, The, by Barrow, 456.

Bickerstaff, Isaac, 338.

Bloomfield, S. T., 591; Robert, 395.
Blount, Thomas, and Sir Henry, 169;
Charles, 201.

Blunt, Henry, 482.

Boaden, James, 398.

Body of Divinity, by Stackhouse, 255.
Bolingbroke, Viscount, 235.

Bonar, Horatius, 520; a hymnist, 136.
Book of Martyrs, Fox's, 109,
Borrow, George, 456.
Boscawen, William, 334.

Boston, Thomas, 259.
Boswell, James, 265.

Bosworth, Joseph, 506.

Botanic Garden, by Darwin, 328.

Bowles, William Lisle, 397.

Bowring, Sir John, 469; a hymnist, 136.

Boyd, Andrew K. H., 607.

Boyle, Hon. Robert, 195; Charles, John,

240.

Bickersteth, Edward, 482; opinion of Boys, John, 114.

Horsley, 352.

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, 520.

Biddle, John, 184.

Bilson, Thomas, 112, 123.

Bingham, Joseph, 256.

Birch, Thomas, 293.

Bishop, Samuel, 339.
Bishops' Bible, The, 121.
Bisset, Robert, 366.
Blackburne, Francis, 321.
Blackfriar's Theatre, 83, 85.
Blacklock, Thomas, 339.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, 219.
Blackstone, Sir William, 271.
Blackwell, Thomas, 291.
Blackwood's Magazine, its opinion
of Milton, Pope, and Dryden, 215; of
Bloomfield, 396; of Charlotte Bronté,
457; of Barry Cornwall, 514; of Dis-
raeli, 528.

Blair, Hugh, 355; his opinion of Shaftes-

bury, 235; of Burns, 320.

Blair, Robert, 221.

Blakey, Robert, 471.

Blanchard, Laman, 508.

Brady, Nicholas, 132, 191.
Brady, Robert, 201.
Braithwait, Richard, 156.
Bramhall, John, 176.
Brewster, Sir David, 556.

Bride of Abydos, by Byron, 379.
Bridge, William, 184.

Bridge of Sighs, by Hood, 450.
Bridgewater Treatises, 476.
Britannia, Camden's, 107.

British Aristarchus, applied to Bent-
ley, 239.

British Quarterly, opinion of Ingolds-
by Legends, 449.

Brittany, or Armorica, a storehouse of

British legends, 27.
Britton, John, 493.

Broadstone of Honor, by Digby, 583.
Brome, Alexander, Richard, 156.
Bronté, Charlotte, Anne, Emily, Patrick,

457.

Brooke, Henry, 314.
Brooke, Mrs. Frances, 315.
Brooke, Lord, 68.
Brookes, Thomas, 184.

Blank Verse, first introduced by Sur- Brooks, Shirley, 518.

rey, 58.

Blarney-Stone, version in Greek by
"Father Prout," 468.
Blayney, Richard, 361.

Brougham, Henry, Lord, 459; anecdote
of Walpole, 239; opinion of Burke,
267; of Fox, 268; of Gibbon, 275.
Broughton, Hugh, 112.

Broughton, Thomas, 291.
Brown, Charles Armitage, 504.
Brown, John, 283.

Brown, John, 607.

Brown, John, of Haddington, 321.
Brown, Thomas, 413.

Brown, Tom, 191.

Browne, Isaac Hawkins, 222.

Browne, Simon, 248; a hymnist, 135.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 162.

Browne, William, 75, 222.

Byfield, Nicholas, 183.

Byrom, John, 311; a hymnist, 136.
Byron, Lord, 377; witticism on Berkeley,
237; an admirer of Lady Blessington,
403.

Cadenus, a pseudonym of Swift's, 234.
Cadwalader, King of the Early Brit-
ons, 27.

Cain, by Byron, 379.

Browning, Robert, 511; Mrs. Elizabeth Calamy, Edmund, 182.

Barrett B., 512.

Bruce, James, the traveller, 290.
Bruce, The, of Barbour, 47.
Brunne, Robert of, 31.

Brut, or Brutus, of England, 27; origin
of the legend, 27; The Brute of Bar-
bour, 47.

Bryan, Michael, 440.

Bryant, Jacob, 360.

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 430.
Buchanan, Robert, 523.
Buck, Charles, 376.

Buckingham, James Silk, 496.
Buckland, William, 472.
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 554.
Budgell, Eustace, 230.
Bull, George, 205.

Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward George,
526; Lady Rosina, Sir Henry Lytton,
527; Edward R., 522.

Bunyan, John, 179.

Burckhardt, John Ludwig, 441.

Burder, George, 426.

Burgh, James, 292.

Calderwood, David, 185.

Caleb Williams, by Godwin, 345, 346.
Call to the Unconverted, Baxter's, 178.
Calvin, his connection with English
Hymnody, 131.

Camden, William, 109.
Campbell, George, 355,
Campbell, John, 293.

Campbell, John, Lord Chief Justice,
492; his opinion of Erskine, 410.
Campbell, R., a hymnist, 137.
Campbell, Thomas, account of him, 383;
his opinion of Giles and Phineas
Fletcher, 76; of Roscommon, 190; of
Vaughan, 190; of Akenside, 308; of
Churchill, 309; of Allan Ramsay, 309;
of Young's Night Thoughts, 310.
Canning, George, 410.
Candish, Robert S., 595.
Canterbury Tales, description of the
poem, 37, 38; Tyrwhitt's edition, 284.
Capell, Edward, 294.

Cardiphonia, by Rev. John Newton,
328.

Carew, Thomas, 151.

Burke, Edmund, 265; his opinion of Fox, Carey, Henry, 167, 313.

268.

Burke, John and Bernard, 493.

Burnet, Gilbert, 205.

Burnet, Thomas, 201.

Carleton, William, 536,

Carlyle, Thomas, 541; his opinion of
Burns, 330.

Carpenter, William B., 474; Lant, 482.

Burney, Fanny, 339; Charles, 340; Carte, Thomas, 248.

James, 341.

Burns, Robert, 329.

Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, 286.

Cartwright, William, 155.

Burrough, Edward, 212.

Burton, Henry, 183.

Burton, John Hill, 573.

Burton, Robert, 105.

Burton, R. F., 612.

Bury, Lady Charlotte, 455.

Butler, Alban, 323.

Butler, Charles, 426; his opinion of

Gother, 207; of Alban Butler, 322.

Butler, Joseph, Bishop, 253.

Butler, Samuel, 151.

Butler, William Archer, 482.

Cary, Henry Francis, 505.

Caryl, Joseph, 183.

Cases of Conscience, Pike's, 321.

Castle of Indolence, by Thomson, 219.

Caswall, E., a hymnist, 137.

Catiline, by Ben Jonson, 89; by Croly,

448.

Catechism, The Shorter, 128.
Catholic Bible, The, 121.

Cato, tragedy of, by Addison, 230.

Cave, Edward, 251.

Cave, William, 258.

Cavendish, George, 56.
Cavendish, Henry, 365.
Cavendish, Margaret, 155.
Cavendish, William, 155, 189.
Caxton, account of him, 54.
Caxtons, The, by Bulwer, 526.
Cecil, Richard, 376.

Cecilia, Ode to, by Dryden, 187.

Celts, their literature, 25: their legends,
27; their reputed origin, 28.
Cennick, John, a hymnist, 136.
Centlivre, Mrs. Susannah, 228.
Chabot, Charles, examines the hand-
writing of Junius, 270.
Challoner, Bishop, 122, 322.

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Chettle, Henry, 84.
Chetwood, W. R., 293.
Childe Harold, by Byron, 378.
Chillingworth, William, 176.
Chinese Letters, by Goldsmith, 302.
Christabel, by Coleridge, 387.
Christian Year, The, by Keble, 447.
Christopher North, John Wilson, 461.
Chronicle, earliest Rhyming, 28; Laya-

mon's, 28; Robert of Gloucester's, 30;
Robert of Brunne's, 31; Wyntoun's,
48; Froissart's, translated by Berners,
57; C. of Scotland, by Bellenden, 57;
C. of England, by Sir R. Baker, 105;
Stow's C., 109.

Chalmers, Alexander, 429; opinion of Chrysostom, his prayer, 127; edition of

Ashmole, 202; of Ayscough, 368.
Chalmers, George, 433.

Chalmers, Thomas, 474.
Chamberlayne, Edward, John, 199.
Chambers, Ephraim, 250.
Chambers, J. D., a hymnist, 137.
Chambers, William and Robert, account
of them, 601; opinion of Sackville, 70;
of Massinger, 94; of Cowley, 148; of
Herrick, 150; of Cartwright, 155; of
Clarendon, 157; of Dryden, 187; of
Robert Blair, 221; of Steele, 232; of
Graham, 331; of Johnson, 264.
Chandler, John, a hymnist, 137.
Chandler, Samuel, 259.

his works by Saville, 104.
Chubb, Thomas, 260.
Churchill, Charles, 308.
Church-Latin, 25.

Cibber, Colley, 226; Theophilus, 227.
Civilization, History of, by Buckle, 554.
Claggett, William, 177.
Clapperton, Hugh, 441.
Clare, John, 453.
Clarendon, Earl of, 156.
Claridge, Richard, 260.
Clarissa Harlowe, by Richardson, 295.
Clarke, Adam, 424.

Clarke, Edward Daniel, 441.
Clarke, Mrs. Mary Cowden, 608,

Clarke, Samuel, 242, 184.

Clarkson, Thomas, 435.

Chapman, George, 92.

Chapman, John, 321.

Clieveland, John, 160.

Chapone, Mrs. Hester, 288.

Cobbett, William, 411.

Characteristics, by Shaftesbury, 235.

Cobden, Richard, 548.

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Coke, Thomas, 372.

Charles Grandison, Sir, by Richard- Colenso, John W., Bishop of Natal, 586.

son, 295.

Charles O'Malley, by Lever, 533.
Charlotte Elizabeth, Mrs. Tonna, 487.
Charnock, Stephen, 182.
Chatham, Earl of, 271.
Chatterton, Thomas, 315.
Chaucer, English before his day, 25-34;

an account of his life and writings,
35-38; his contemporaries, 39-45;
biography by Godwin, 345; edited by
Tyrwhitt, 284.

Coleridge, Derwent, Henry Nelson, Sarah
H., and Sir John T., 390.
Coleridge, Hartley, 389; his estimate of
Ford, 95.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 387; estimate
of Chaucer, 38; of Field, 114; of Sir
Thomas Brown, 162; of Fuller, 171;
of Bunyan, 180; of Wordsworth, 444.
Collier, Jeremy, 228.
Collier, J. Payne, 577.
Collins, Anthony, 245.

Chemistry of a Candle, by Faraday, Collins, Wilkie, 535.

557.

Chesterfield, Lord, 269.

Collins, William, 307

Colman, George, 337, 398.

Colton, Caleb C., 435.
Colton, Charles, 155.

Colton, Sir Robert Bruce, 109.
Combe, George, Andrew, 474.
Comber, Thomas, 206.

Creed, The, Prymer form of it, 123;
Bishop Pearson's Exposition, 173.

Crimea, Invasion of, by Kinglake, 582.
Critici Sacri, Poole's, 181.

Criticism, Essay on, by Pope, 214.

Complete Angler, by Izaak Walton, Croft, Herbert, 206.

165.

Conder, Josiah, 482; a hymnist, 136.
Confessio Amantis, by Gower, 40.
Confession of Faith, The, 128.
Congreve, William, 225.
Coningsby, by Disraeli, 528.
Conington, John, 610.

Consolation of Philosophy, by Chau-
c. r, 38.

Conybeare, John J., William D., Wil-
liam J., 484.
Cook, Eliza, 517.

Cook, Capt. James, 289.

Cooke, Thomas, 222.

Cork, Earl of, 195, 240.

Croker, T. Crofton, John Wilson, 470.
Croly, George, 448.

Crombie, Alexander, 506.

Crowquill, Alfred, pseudonym of Alfred
H. Forrester, 552.
Cruden, Alexander, 320.

Cry of the Children, by Mrs. Brown-
ing, 513.

Cudworth, Ralph, 174.
Cumming, John, 594.
Cunningham, Allan, 490; his opinion
of Sir Thomas Browne, 162; of Boyle,
196; of Bolingbroke, 236; of Miss Bur-
ney, 340; of Godwin's Caleb Williams,
347; of Campbell, 384; of Miss Ferrier,
403; of Gifford, 408; of Disraeli, 527.

Corn-Law Rhymer, Ebenezer Elliott, Cunningham, Peter, 490.

448.

Corsair, The, by Byron, 379.
Coryat, Thomas, 108.

Cosin, John, Prayer by him, 127; his
life, 175.

Cottagers of Glenburnie, by Eliza-
beth Hamilton, 342.

Cottle, Amos, Joseph, 431.
Country Parson, by Herbert, 76.
Country Parson, Recreations of, by
Boyd, 607.

Country Wife, The, by Wycherley, 224.
Course of Time, by Pollok, 396.
Court of Love, by Chaucer, 38.
Coverdale, Miles, his version of the
Bible, 118.

Cowley, Abraham, 147; his opinion of
Crashaw, 155.

Cowley, Mrs. Hannah, 332.

Curiosities of Literature, by Disraeli,

527.

Curtain Lectures, Mrs. Caudle's, by
Douglas Jerrold, 552.

Dairyman's Daughter, by Legh
Richmond, 425.
Dallas, E. S., 551.
Dallas, Robert C., 435.
Dalrymple, David, 289.
Damon and Pythias, early English
tragedy, 80.

Dampier, Capt. William, 201.
Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins, a poem,
by Dunbar, 50.

Daniel, Samuel, 72.

D'Arblay, Madame, 339; her opinion
of the Paston Letters, 343.

Cowper, William, 326; a hymnist, 136; Darling, James, 495.

his opinion of Beattie, 329.

Coxe, William, Archdeacon, 441.
Crabb, George, 506.

Crabbe, George, 393.
Cradock, Samuel, 206.

Craik, George L., 545; estimate of Dun-
bar, 51; of Drayton, 73; of Beaumont
and Fletcher, 91; of Dryden, 190; of
Blair, 221; of Garth, 222; of Beattie,

329.

Cranmer's Bible, 119; his connection
with the Prayer-Book, 121.
Crashaw, Richard, 154.
Creech, Thomas, 191.

Darwin, Charles, 558; Erasmus, 328.
Davenant, Charles, 246; Sir William, 151.
David Copperfield, by Dickens, 524.
Davideis, a poem, by Cowley, 147.
Davidson, Samuel, 596.
Davies, Sir John, 104.
Davies, Thomas, 293.
Davis, John, 108.

Davy, Sir Humphry, 418; his opinion of
Watt, 419.

Day, Thomas, 448.

Decision of Character, by John Fos-
ter, 466.

Decker, Thomas, 93.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Em-

pire, by Gibbon, 273.

Double Dealer, by Congreve, 225.
Douce, Francis, 493.

Defence of Poesie, by Sir P. Sidney, 67. Douglas, Gawin, early Scotch poet, 51.

De Foe, Daniel, 241.

Deistical Writers, Leland's, 258.
Delany, Patrick, 257.

Delaune, Thomas, 258.

Delphin Classics, edition by Valpy, 504.

Denham, Sir John, 154.

Denham and Clapperton, 441.
Dennis, John, 227.

De Quincey, Thomas, 463.

Derby, Earl, 550.

Dermody, Thomas, 333.

Descent of Man, by Darwin, 558.

Deserted Village, The, by Goldsmith,

301.

Douglas, a play by Home, 337.

D'Oyley, George,481.

Drake, Nathan, an account of him, 430;
his opinion of Wotton, 74; of Stow,
109; of Wither, 149; of Hughes, 221;
of Bloomfield, 395.

Drake, James, 201.

Drama, English, its rise, 79.
Drayton, Michael, 73.

Drew, Samuel, 414.

Drummond of Hawthornden, 76.

Dryden, John, 185; his opinion of Den-
ham, 154; of Roscommon, 188; of
Walsh, 221.

Diary of a Physician, by Warren, Duenna, The, by Sheridan, 335.

534.

Dibdin, Charles, Thomas, 334.

Dibdin, Thomas F., 494; his opinion of
Dugdale, 168; of Gough, 368.

Dick, Thomas, 483.
Dickens, Charles, 523.
Dictionary, English, Edward Phillips,
167; Bailey, 249; Johnson, 263; Sheri-
dan, 335; Walker, 361; Kenrick, Ash,
294; Todd, 492; Richardson, 609.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 163; Kenelm, 583.
Digges, Leonard, Thomas, Dudley, 103.
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 551.
Dilworth, Thomas, 294.
Disraeli, Benjamin, 528.

Disraeli, Isaac, 527; his opinion of Hey-

lin, 176; of Dennis, 228; of Neal, 259;
of Dibdin, 494.

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Diversions of Purley,by Horne Tooke, Ecclesiastical Polity, Hooker's, 113.
356.

Echard, Lawrence, 250.

Divine Legation of Moses, by War- Eden, Lady Emily, 551.

burton, 316.

Divorce, Milton's treatise, 143.

Dixon, Hepworth, 575.

Doctor, The, by Southey, 386.

Dod, Charles Roger, 508; John, 115.
Dodd, Charles. 260; William, 318.
Doddridge, Philip, 257; a hymnist, 155.
Dodsley, Robert, 228.
Dodwell, Henry, 256.

Dombey and Son, by Dickens, 524.
Domestic Manners of the Ameri-
cans, by Mrs. Trollope, 529.
Don Juan, by Byron, 379.
Doolittle, Thomas, 207.

Dorset, Earl of, 70; author of Ferrex and

Porrex, 80, 189.
Douay Bible, 121.

Eden, Richard, 108.

Edgeworth, Maria, 401; Richard Lovell,
E, 401.
Edinburgh Review, opinion of Beat-

tie, 329; of Whitefield, 371; of Byron,
379; of Moore, 380; of Joanna Baillie,
391; of Lady Blessington, 403; of
Bentham, 416; of Sir Egerton Brydges,
430; of Gillies, 434; founded by Syd-
ney Smith and others, 458, 459, 460;
of Lingard, 489; of Alison, 489; of
Lord Campbell, 492; of Arnold, 497 ;
of Barry Cornwall, 515.

Edmeston, James, a hymnist, 136.
Edmondson, Joseph, 290.

Edwards, George, 291.

Edwards, John, 206.

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