Abelard, fame and influence, 87; and Eloise, 111; on ethical good, 126; heresies, 132.
Elfric, translates Bible, 117. Albion, ancient name of Britain, 3. Alchemy, 128, 189, 256.
Alchemist, quoted and criticised, 447. Alcuin, quoted, 86; allusion to, 148. Alexander, 115.
Alfred, laws of, 61, 66; position in English prose, 117; biography and criticism, 148–156. Alliteration, 92, 180.
Anatomy of Melancholy, quoted and criticised. 427.
Aneren Riule, quoted, 117. Aneurin, battle ode of, 17. Angelo, Michael, 287.
Angles, coming of, 6. Anglia, settled, 7.
Anglo-Norman history in word- forms, 57.
Anglo-Saxon language.
Anglo-Saxons, origin, 21; orders of, 21; basis of society, 22; character- istics, 22, 33; government, 23; fam- ily tie, 22; culture, 23; supersti- tions, 23; theology, 24; burial cus- toms, 27; nomenclature for days of the week, 25; popular philosophy, 30; savagery, 33; laws of, 34; com- pared with Celts, 35; with the Nor- mans, 36; persistent sentiments, 36; language of, 53.
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, influence of, 12; quoted, 118; on the being of God, 131.
Antipodes, popular notions of, 129, 191.
Antony and Cleopatra, quoted, 378. Apology, 325.
Aquinas, Thomas, perfects scholasti- cism, 132.
Arcadia, quoted and criticised, 341. Ariosto, 287.
Aristotle, philosophy of, 331; opposed by Bruno, 331.
Arminius, theology of, 436. Arnold, Dr. Thomas, quoted, 1. Art, sovereignty of, 145.
Arthur, legends of, 7, 105, 107; the death of, 113; a romance favorite, 120; in Fairy Queen, 360.
Aryas, Aryan, the mother-race, 2; influence on language, 44, 49. Ascham, Roger, quoted, 292, 293; as critic, 321.
Asculanus, martyrdom of, 189. Ask, myth of, 24.
Asser, quoted, 153, 156. Astrology, 127, 189, 256.
As You Like It, quoted and criti- cised, 377.
Atheism, foolishness of, 470. Augustine, St., on total depravity, 125.
Bacon, Sir Francis, quoted, 157; in- stitutes the essay form of composi- tion, 321; contributions of, to the science of ethics, 328; biography and criticism, 456-472.
Bacon, Roger, biography and criti- cism, 156-163.
Baker's Chronicle, 434. Balder, the Good, 30. Ballad, early, 247. Battle of Maldon, 91.
Beaumont and Fletcher, literary co- partnership, 416; quoted and criti- cised, 416.
Beauty, vivid sense of. in the Re- naissance, 287; true source of, 366, 370.
Becket, Thomas à, pilgrimages to the shrine of, 216.
Bede, Alfred's translations of, 117; biography and criticism, 145-8. Bedford, Duke of, quoted, 240. Beowulf, quoted and criticised, 95; allusion to, 137.
Berenger, on transubstantiation, 190. Berkin's Cases of Conscience, 437. Bernard, St., quoted, 132.
Bible, influence upon English thought and language, 326; translated by
Elfric, 117; by Wycliffe, 200; by Tyndale, 327; revised by Cover- dale, 327.
Bishop Golias, 79.
Boadicea, the warrior-queen, 15. Boccaccio, relation to the Renais- sance, 174; allusion to, 287. Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy, translated by Alfred, 150. Book of Common Prayer, quoted, 276. Book of Sentences, 132.
Books, manuscript form of early, and their costliness, 83, 173, 237. Borde, Andrew, quoted, 330. Boyle, quoted, 435.
Breviary of Health, quoted, 330. Britain, geography of, 1; area, 2; climate, 2; political divisions, 2; Cæsar's invasion of, 4; Roman con- quest of, 4; Anglo-Saxon conquest, 5; introduction of Christianity into, 5; Danish conquest, 8: Norman conquest, 8; Celtic period of, 13; Danish period, 18; Norman period, 19; Anglo-Saxon, 21. Britons, prehistoric, 2; heroism, 4; enervation under Roman rule, 6; apply to the Jutes for aid, 6; dis- possessed by the Teutons, 7. See Celts.
Broken Heart, quoted and criticised,
Browne, Sir Thomas, allusion to the Hydriotaphia of, 100; quoted and criticised, 429; in relation to ethics, 437; to science, 440; on the dig- nity and destiny of man, 442. Bruno, influence and martyrdom of, 329.
Brut, quoted and criticised, 112. Brutus, legendary founder of Brit- ain, 3.
Bryant, Thanatopsis, 100. Brynhild, 27, 35.
Burbage, an actor, 374.
Burke, Edmund, quoted, 145, 456. Burton, Robert, quoted and criti- cised, 427.
Butler, Samuel, quoted, 408. Byron, quoted, 347.
Cadmon, 101: biography and criti- cism, 139-145.
Cæsar, Julius, invades Britain, 4; quoted, 15.
Calvin, John, on predestination,
Cambridge University, 174.
Canterbury Tales, quoted and criti- cised, 216. Caractacus, 16.
Carew, Thomas, quoted and criti- cised, 410.
Cases of Conscience, 437. Castle of Knowledge, 330. Castle of Perseverance, 306. Cataline, quoted and criticised, 452. Cavaliers, the, 402.
Caxton, William, 243; biography and criticism, 259–264.
Celts, migrations of, into Europe, 3; as Britons, 3; environment, 13; customs, 14; religion, 14; acquired refinement, 15; latent qualities of art, 16; influence on English na- tionality, 18, 138; on English lan- guage, 51.
Chapman, quoted, 425. Character of a Happy Life, 413. Charlemagne, as legendary hero, 104. Charles I, 401.
Charles II, 402.
Charon, quoted, 158.
Charon, the Stygian ferryman, 101, 452.
Chaucer, quoted, 166, 175; in what sense the father of English poetry, 187; biography and criticism. 204- 232.
Chery Chase, old ballad, 117. Chillingworth, 435.
Chinese proverb, 39; royalty, 196; printing, 244 (note); maxim, 494. Chivalry, introduction of, 10; influ- ence, 106, 167.
Christ, power of, as the ideal of humanity, 82; Decker's characteri- zation of, 425.
Christian Morals, 437.
Christianity, introduction of, into England, 36; influence on Saxon poetry, 99. See Church. Chroniclers, early, their method, 137. Church of Rome, organizes the Eng-
lish Church, 73; commanding position in the Middle-age, 73; monasticism, 75; the mendicant Friars, 76; moral deterioration, 78: resistance to, in England, 79; redeeming excellences, 80; condi- tion in the fourteenth century, 171: popular feeling against, 172; agen- ey in the abolition of slavery, 173; state of, in the fifteenth century, 238; persecutions, 242.
Climate and language, 45. Club Parliament, the, 235. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, quoted, 328, 347, 373. Colet, Dean, 289. Combat, trial by, 61. Comines, quoted, 234.
Composition, superiority of Saxon words in, 58; importance of meth- od in, 338.
Compurgation, custom of, 60. Comus, quoted and criticised, 478. Confessio Amantis, 182. Conscience, 393.
Conversation, the law of, 376. Copernicus, 329.
Court of the Hundred, 60; of the County, 60.
Courts of Love, the, 107. Council of Sens, 87. Coverdale, revises New Testament, 327.
Cranmer, as reformer, 279; Bible of, 327: quoted, 350.
Creation, process of the Divine, 131,
Crusades, influence of, 12.
Culture, end of, 392.
Custom, influence of, 157.
Cymbeline, or Cunobelin, 15. Cymbeline, quoted, 378.
Daisy, the, 226, 230.
Dance of Death, 246.
Daniel, Samuel, quoted, 302; chron- icler, 323.
Danish Conquest, 8: Cæsar quoted concerning, 15; influence, 18, 52. Dante, quoted, 79, 198.
Dark Ages, the, 185.
Death, universal sense of, 100, 413, 414; popular explanation of the origin of, 122; reflections on, 28, 146, 391, 432, 433, 470. Decker, Thomas, quoted, 425. Defense of Poesy, quoted and criti- cised, 342.
Degerando, quoted, 471. Deluge, 305.
Descartes, philosophy of, 441. Destiny, Teutonic belief in, 30, 98.
Diodorus, concerning the Gauls, 17. D'Israeli, Isaac, quoted, 139.
Donne, Dr. John, quoted and criti- cised, 412.
Dooms of Alfred, 154.
Douglas, Gawin, quoted, 307. Drama, product of the English Re- naissance, 304; origin and growth, 304; the Mysteries, 304; the Mo- ralities, 305; the Interlude, 307; first English comedy, 308; first English tragedy, 309; ascendancy of, 311; the theatre, 311; the Uni- ties, 320; how affected by Puritan- ism, 415.
Drake, explorer, 267.
Draper, Dr. John W., quoted, 463 (note).
Drayton, Michael, quoted, 302. Druids, the, 14.
Drummond, of Hawthornden, quoted,
Drunkenness, 107.
Dryden, John, quoted, 472.
Duchess of Malfi, quoted and criti- cised, 423.
Dunbar, William, quoted, 247. Duty, the idea of fundamental to the Germanie race, 36, 276. Dwarfs, the, 25.
Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Bede's, 146; Alfred's translation, 149.
Ecclesiastical Polity, 325. Edda, the, 143, 432.
Eden, the garden of, 196. Edward, the Confessor, 8, 128, 330. Edward I, jury under, 61.
Edward II, weakness of, 165; brutal- ity, 168.
Edward II, quoted and criticised,
Edward III, order of, 189.
Edward IV, violence, 233; charter, 257.
Edward VI, counsellors of, 265. El Dorado, 352.
Elizabeth, Queen, administration of, 266.
Embla, myth of, 24.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted, 402. England, geography of, 1, 2; etymol- ogy of name, 7; political and
Social development of, in the Formative Period, 60; in the four- teenth century, 164; in the fif- teenth, 233; in the sixteenth, 265; in the seventeenth, 401. See Brit- ain. English language, effect of Conquest
upon, 11; persistency of, 12; ele- ments, 51; basis, 53; originally inflected, 53; transition, 54; pro- gress of, illustrated, 55; organic features, 56; history in word-forms of, 57; superiority of Saxon, 57; general view of, 59; state of, in thirteenth century, 88; in the fourteenth, 175; in the fifteenth, 244; in the sixteenth, 293–296. Envy, Spenser's portrait of, 365. Epithalamion, quoted and criticised,
Erasmus, quoted, 275, 289, 290, 324. Erigena, on hell-fire, 125; a Platon- ist, 130.
Ethics, condition of, in theological
ages, 126, 191, 256, 327; funda- mental distinctions of, 126; basis of, according to Scotus, 126; ac- cording to Abelard, 126; accord- ing to Occam, 191; true basis of, 327; gradual severance from the- ology, 437; method of, suggested by Bacon, 437. Eucharist, the, 191. Euphuism, 345. Every Man, 306.
Every Man in his Humour, quoted and criticised, 446. Evil, popular genesis of, 191. Evolution of language, 40. Exclusive Salvation, effect of belief in, 328.
Faustus, quoted and criticised, 315. Feltham's Resolves, 437. Feudalism, introduction and charac- ter of, 9, 10; evanescence of, 332. Fiction, romantic, origin of, 102. Fight at Finsburg, war-song, 99. Fletcher, Giles, 413.
Fletcher, John. See Beaumont. Florent, quoted and criticised, 185. Ford, John, quoted and character- ized, 421.
Formative Period, the general view of, 192.
Fortescue, 236, 245, 253.
Four P's, quoted and criticised, 307. Fox's Book of Martyrs, quoted, 277. France, genesis of modern, 46. Free agency, 392.
Freeman, Edward A., quoted, 148. French language, supersedes Eng- lish, 10: formation of, 46, 47; influence, 52; predominance, 88; dialects, 110; decline of, in Eng- land, 175.
French poetry, introduction of, into England, 11; predominance, 102; illustrated, 110; decline, 186. Friar, the, 76; Chaucer's portrait of, 220, 227.
Froissart, 174, 182.
Froude, James Anthony, quoted, 60, 164.
Fuller, Doctor, 428, 444. Future, the, a vision of, 340.
Games and Gambling in Early Eng- land, 70.
Genius and Talent, 147, 329. Geoffrey of Monmouth, 119. Germans, origin of, 21; character- ized, 46; language of, 50. Gesta Romanorum, discussed and quoted, 107.
Gibbon, Edward, quoted, 150. Gilbert, on magnetism, 330. Gleeman, Saxon minstrel, 90.
God, the existence of, 131, 133, 441: essence of, 373; Plato's conception of. 285.
Goethe, quoted, 60; Faust of, 318. Gorboduc, characterized and quoted, 30.
Gosson, Stephen, quoted, 322. Gower, Thomas, quoted and criti- cised, 182, 190. Graal, the Holv, 105. Grave, the, 100, 137.
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