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PREFACE
CONTENTS
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
INTRODUCTION.
Of the Latin as the source of the Languages of Latin
Europe
The English Language, divided into five epochs
Page
i
3
11
Manners
Manners continued.-Vigour and End of the Barbarous
Ages
39
PART THE FIRST.
FIRST AND SECOND EPOCHS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Literature at the time of the Anglo-Saxons, the Danes,
and during the Middle Ages.-Of the Anglo Saxons
under William the Conqueror-The Britons.-Tacitus
-Erse Poems
Anglo-Saxons and Danes
- 47
THIRD AND FOURTH EPOCHS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Anglo-Norman and Norman-French epochs from William
the Conqueror, and from Henry II. to Henry VIII.—
Anglo-Norman Trouvères
The Anglo-Norman Trouvères continued. -
65
Terrestrial
73
79
Miracles-Mysteries-Satires
Change in Literature-Struggle between the two Lan-
guages
Return, by law, to the National Language
Chaucer-Gower-Barbour
Sentiment of political Liberty-Why different amongst
English and French writers of the 16th and 17th
centuries-Place held by the People in the ancient
Institutions of the two Monarchies
Portrait of Luther by Maimbourg, Bossuet, and Voltaire 179
My former Mis-judgment of Shakspeare-Mistaken Ad-
mirers of the Poet
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235
Voltaire's Opinion of Shakspeare-Opinion of English
Critics
280
- 244
The faults of Shakspeare are the Faults of his Age.—The
Language of Shakspeare and Dante
Mechanism of the English Stage in the sixteenth century 249
Character of Shakspeare's Genius
Shakespeare's Style of Writing has corrupted Taste-
Poets and other Writers contemporary with Shakspeare
The Life of Shakspeare
Shakspeare one of the five or six Great Master Spirits
254
PART THE THIRD.
LITERATURE UNDER THE FIRST TWO STUARTS AND DURING
THE COMMONWEALTH.
What England owes to the Stuarts
James I.-Basilikon Doron
Raleigh.-Cowley
Political Writings under Charles I. and Cromwell
The Abbe de Lamennais
Killing no Murder-Locke-Hobbes-Denham - Ha-
rington Harvey Sieyes - Mirabeau -
Benjamin
Constant-Carrel
353
HISTORICAL VIEW
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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