BIBLICAL REFERENCES IN ENGLISH

LITERATURE.

The following passages occurring in the works of well-known writers in English Literature have obviously been suggested by the incidents recorded in the Book of Isaiah.

Religious Formalism.

(Isa. i. 11.)

Obedience.
(Isa. i. 15.)

Nicolas Breton-Longings'-'What is Love?'
-St. 9.

Joseph Beaumont-'Wishes.'

Herbert-Temple'-'The Method.'
Shelley-Revolt of Islam'-Canto iii. St. 7.
Browning-Sordello'-B. i. 11. 503-513.
Christina Rossetti-' A Form of Godliness,'

Joseph Beaumont-The Master.'

Milton-Paradise Lost'-B. iii. 1. 93, et seq.
Quarles Enchiridion '-B. iv. 1. 29.

Henry More-Life of the Soul'-Canto ii. St

92.

Herbert-Temple - Obedience.'

Swinburne-'Atalanta in Caledon '-11. 301-312.

Quarles Enchiridion'-B. iv. No. 64.
Herbert-Temple - Mary Magdalene.'
Shelley The Cenci'-Act v. Sc. 2.
Browning-Dramatic Lyrics'-Saul'-St. 17

Spenser Hymne in Honour of Heavenly Love'
-1. 130.

Joseph Beaumont- Psyche '-Canto v. St. 145.
Nicolas Breton-'Solemne Passioun of the Soule's
Love'-St. 58.
Bunyan-Holy War.'

More Hymn on the Redemption of the World.'
Herbert-Temple'-' Peace.'

Gower-Confessio Amantis '-B. v.
Milton-'Of True Religion.'

More Insomnium Philosophicum'-St. 19..
Christina Rossetti- The Saints and the Angels.'

Spenser Heavenly Love'-1. 172.

Breton-Solemne Passioun of the Soule's Love'
-St. 88.

Milton-Paradise Lost '-B. vii. 1. 602.
Quarles-Emblems'-No. 9.
More Philosopher's Devotion.'

Browning-Dramatic Lyrics'-'Saul'—St. 18.
Eliza Cook-The Two Worshippers.'

Greene-Friar Bacon,' etc.-1. 1967, et seq.
Bacon-Essays-On Superstition.'
Shakespeare Othello-Act i. Sc. 3.
Milton-Paradise Lost'-B. ii. 1. 665.
Coleridge-Religious Musings.'

Greene-Alphonsus, King of Arragon '—11. 920-
936.

Milton-Paradise Lost'-B. i. 1. 718.
Milton-Paradise Regained'-B. iii. 1. 282.
Young Night Thoughts '-B. vii. 11. 805-819.
Christina Rossetti-The Waters of Babylon.'

Jehovah the

Saviour.

Only Milton-Paradise Regained '—B. iv. l. 603, et seq.
Quarles Enchiridion '-B. iii. 1. 6.

(Isa. xxvi. 1-2; xliii. 1-7.)

Messiah the Consolation.

(Isa. lxvi. 11.)

The Lessons of Suffering. (Isa. xxxiii. 1-24.)

Hezekiah's Faith.

Eliza Cook-'Love.'

Christina Rossetti-' Death Swallowed up in
Victory.'

Spenser-Heavenly Beauty'-1. 158.
Shakespeare Hamlet'-Act iv. Sc. 4.
Beaumont- Psyche'-Canto ix. Sts. 122-130.
Quarles-'Emblems'-No. 13.

Eliza Cook-Sabbath Evening Song.'
Shakespeare-Richard II.'-Act iii. Sc. 2.
Beaumont-The World'-St. 4.
Quarles Enchiridion'-B. ii. No. 38.
Herbert-Temple '—' Affliction.'

Carleton-Farm Ballads '-'Fading Flowers.'
Swinburne 'Atalanta in Caledon '-l. 212, et seq.
Christina Rossetti-'I do set my Bow in the
Heavens.'

Cowley-Davideis'-B. vi. 1. 635.

(Isa. xxxvi. ; xxxix.) Sylvester-' Du Bartas '—B. iv. Ďay iv. Week ii.

Sennacherib's Defeat.
(Isa. xxxvii. 36.)

True Religion.

(Isa. xliv. 1-8.)

1. 470.

Young Night Thoughts'-B. ix. ll. 406-430.
Keble-Christian Year '-First Sunday after
Christmas.

Sylvester-Du Bartas'-B. iv. Day iv. Week ii.
1. 624, et seq.

Lord Byron-'Destruction of Sennacherib's Army.'
Spenser Heavenly Beauty'-1. 172.
Beaumont-'Content.'

More Immortality of the Soul '-B. ii. Canto
iii. St. 6.

Shelley-Revolt of Islam'-Canto viii. St. 12.
Browning-Dramatic Romances'-'Boy and
Angel.'

Eliza Cook-Thy Will be Done.'

The Odious Nature of Nicolas Breton-'Solemne Passioun of the Soule's

Sin.

(Isa. lix. 1-15).

Love'-St. 76.

Beaumont-Psyche '-Canto ix. St. 119.
Herbert-Temple '-' Repentance.'
Shelley-The Cenci'-Act iii. Sc. 1.
Browning- Before and After.'

The Glorious Day of the Shakespeare- Tempest-Act. iv. Sc. I.

Lord.

(Isa. lx. 1-20.)

Fate of the Prophets.
(Isa. lxii. 1-12.)

The Fatherhood of God.
(Isa. Ixiv. 8.)

Quarles-Sion's Sonetes '-No. 21.
Browne-Religio Medici.'

Dryden-Religio Laici '-l. 126, et seq.
Pope-Messiah.'

Cowper-Olney Hymns-Glorious Things of
Thee are Spoken.'

Mrs Cousin-Immanuel's Land'-Thou shalt
know Hereafter."

Shakespeare-King John '—Act. iv. Sc. 2.
Milton Paradise Regained'-B. i. ll. 260-275.
Wordsworth-Ecclesiastical Sonnets '-Pt. i. Ss.

1-6.

Longfellow-Divine Tragedy '-'III. Passover '
-Sc. ii. 1. 100.

F. R. Havergal-Under His Shadow''The
Two Paths.'

Chaucer A.B.C.'—11. 49-56.

Thomson-Hymn to the Universal Father.'
Young-Night Thoughts'-B. ix. ll. 2219-2230.
Wordsworth-Ode on Year 1815'-St. 4.
Coleridge-Our Father.'

Matthew Arnold-Sonnets-On the Divinity
of God.'

Longfellow-Divine Tragedy'-'II. Passover'
-Sc. iv. 1. 54.

Alexander Smith-City Poems - Apostrophe
to Our Father in Heaven.'