Chapter VIII (2)

[41] Robert Herrick b. (or at least baptized) 1591; d. 1674. The fullest edition of his works is that edited by Dr. Grosart, and published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1876.

[42] Dr. Grosart objects that most portraits are too gross: I am content if comparison be made only with the engraving authorized by Dr. Grosart, and authenticated by his careful investigation and a warm admiration for his subject.

[43] Herrick is not an example of this; but Herbert is; so is Overbury with his “Wife;” so is Vaughan; so is Browne.

[44]

“Religion stands on tiptoe in our land
Ready to pass to the American strand.
My God, Thou dost prepare for them a way,
By carrying first their gold from them away;
For gold and grace did never yet agree;
Religion always sides with Poverty.”

--HERBERT’S _The Church Militant_.

[45] John Selden, b. 1584; d. 1654. His _Table-Talk_, by which he is best known, was published in 1689. Coleridge said, “It contains more weighty bullion sense than I have ever found in the same number of pages of any uninspired writer.”

[46] John Milton: written 1629.

[47] Specially instanced in his final desertion of Strafford.

[48] “The Rehearsal.” Complete edition of his works published in 1775. George Villiers, b. 1627; d. 1688.

[49] Jeremy Taylor, b. 1613; d. 1667. First collected edition of his works issued in 1822 (Bishop Heber); reissued, with revision (C. P. Eden), 1852-61.

[50] John Evelyn, b. 1620; d. 1706. His best known books are his _Diary_, and _Sylva_--a treatise on arboriculture.

[51] I have not been careful to give the _ipsissima verba_ of Taylor’s version of this old Oriental legend, which has been often cited, but never more happily transplanted into the British gardens of doctrine than by Jeremy Taylor.

[52] John Suckling, b. 1609; d. 1642. An edition of his poems, edited by W. C. Hazlitt, was published in 1874.

[53] William Prynne, b. 1600; d. 1669. He was a Somersetshire man, severely Calvinistic, and before he was thirty had written about the _Unloveliness of Love Locks_.

[54] Robert Burton, b. 1576; d. 1639, was too remarkable a man to get his only mention in a note; but we cannot always govern our spaces. His best-known work, _The Anatomy of Melancholy_, is an excellent book to steal from--whether quotations or crusty notions of the author’s own.

[55] Abraham Cowley, b. 1618; d. 1667. Edmund Waller, b. 1605; d. 1687.

[56] I give a taste of these young verses, first published in the _Poetical Blossoms_ of 1633; also sampled approvingly by the mature Cowley in his essay _On Myself_:

“This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Some honor I would have
Not from great deeds, but good alone.
The unknown are better than ill known;
Rumour can ope the grave.

“Thus would I double my life’s fading space,
For he that runs it well, twice runs his race.
And in this true delight,
These unbought sports, this happy state,
I would not fear nor wish my fate.
But boldly say each night
To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
Or in clouds hide them;--I have liv’d to-day!”

[57] John Milton, b. 1608; d. 1674. Editions of his works are numberless; but Dr. Masson is the fullest and best accredited contributor to Miltonian literature.

[58] John and Edward Phillips both with him; the latter only as pupil.

[59] More probably, perhaps, sulking for lack of her old gayeties of life in the range of Royal Oxford. Aubrey’s accounts would favor this interpretation.

[60] _Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, composed at several Times._ London, 1645.

[61] In that day Whitehall Street was separated from Charing Cross by the famous gate of Holbein’s; and in the other direction it was crossed, near Old Palace Yard, by the King’s-Street Gate--thus forming a vast court.

[62] Salmasius, a Leyden professor, had been commissioned by Royalists to write a defence of Charles I., and vindicate his memory. Milton was commissioned to reply; and the result was--a Latin battle in Billingsgate.

Milton calls his antagonist “a grammatical louse, whose only treasure of merit and hope of fame consisted in a glossary.”

[63] His blindness dating from the year 1652.

[64] This marriage took place on February 24, 1662-63, the age of the bride being twenty-five, and Milton in his fifty-fifth year.

[65] Vondel, b. 1587 (at Cologne); d. 1679. He was the author of many dramatic pieces, among which were “Jephtha,” “Marie Stuart,” “Lucifer” (_Luisevaar_). Vondel also wrote “Adam in Exile,” and “Samson, or Divine Vengeance.” This latter, according to a writer in _The Athenæum_ of November 7, 1885, has suspicious points of resemblance with “Samson Agonistes.”

Other allied topics of interest are discussed in same journal’s notice of George Edmundson’s book on the Milton and Vondel question (Trübner & Co., London, 1885).

Vondel survived the production of his “Lucifer” by a quarter of a century, and died five years after Milton.

[66] Avitus was Bishop of Vienne (succeeding his father and grandfather) about 490. His poem, “De Initio Mundi,” was in Latin hexameters. See interesting account of same in _The Atlantic Monthly_ for January, 1890.

[67] The cottage is a half-timber, gable fronted building, and has Milton’s name inscribed over the door. The village is reached by a branch of the L. & N. W. R. R. American visitors will also look with interest at the burial place of William Penn, who lies in a “place of graves” behind the Friends’ Meeting House--a mile and a half only from Chalfont Church.

[68] The terms were £5 down; another £5 after sale of 1,300 copies, and two equal sums on further sale of two other editions of same number. The family actually compounded for £18, before the third edition was entirely sold.

[69] Carew, b. about 1589; d. 1639; full of lyrical arts and of brazen sensuality. Lovelace, b. 1618; d. 1658; a careless master of song, whom wealth and royal favor did not save from a death of want and despair.

[70] George Villiers, b. 1627; d. 1688.

[71] Earl of Rochester (John Wilmot), b. 1647; d. 1680.

[72] Sir Peter Lely, b. (in Westphalia) 1617; d. 1680.

[73] Richard Baxter, b. 1615; d. 1691. His _Saints’ Rest_ published in 1653 (Lowndes).

[74] Andrew Marvell, b. 1620; d. 1678. Early edition of _Life and Works_ by Cooke, 1726. (Later reprints.) Dr. Grosart also a laborer in this field.

[75] Aubrey.

[76] Samuel Butler, b. 1612; d. 1680. Editions of _Hudibras_ (his chief book) are many and multiform; that of Bohn perhaps as good as any. His posthumous works, not much known, were published in 1715. No scholarly editing of his works or life has been done.

[77] _Paradise Lost_ appeared 1667; first part of _Hudibras_, 1663; third part not till 1678.

[78] Some of the couplets in the two ran so nearly together as almost to collide. Thus, Butler says:

“He that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that’s slain.”

While Trumbull’s couplet _runs_ thus:

“He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.”

[79] This was Sir Samuel Luke of Cople-Wood-End, a Parliamentary leader and a man of probity and distinction, supposed to have been the particular subject of Butler’s lampoon. His own letter-book, however (_Egerton Magazine_, cited by John Brown in his recent _Life of Bunyan_, p. 45) shows him to have been much more a man of the world than was Butler’s caricature of a “Colonel.”

[80] Samuel Pepys--whom those well up in cockney ways of speech persist in calling “Mr. Peps”--was born 1633; died 1703. His _Diary_, running from 1660 to 1669, did not see the light until 1825. Since that date numerous editions have been published; that of Bright, the best. See also Wheatley, _Samuel Pepys and the World he lived in_.

[81] Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, b. 1609; d. 1674. He was a man of large literary qualities, and his _History_ is chiefly prized for its portraits.

[82] John Evelyn, b. 1620; d. 1706.

[83] B. 1628; d. 1688. Editions of the _Pilgrim’s Progress_ are innumerable. Southey and Macaulay have dealt with his biography, and in later times Mr. Froude (“English Men of Letters”) and John Brown (8vo, London, 1885).

[84] Mr. Froude (“English Men of Letters”) entertains an opposite opinion--as do Offor (1862) and Copner (1883). Mr. Brown, however, who is conscientious to a fault, and seems to have been indefatigable in his research, confirms the general opinion entertained by most accredited biographers. See _John Bunyan; his Life, Times, and Work_, by John Brown, chap. iii., p. 45.

[85] Reference is again made to _Life, Etc._, by John Brown, Minister of the Church at Bunyan Meeting, Bedford. The old popular belief was strong that Bunyan’s entire prisonship was served in the jail of the bridge. Well-authenticated accounts, however, of the number of his fellow-prisoners forbid acceptance of this belief.

Froude alludes to the question without settling it; Mr. Brown ingeniously sets forth a theory that explains the traditions, and seems to meet all the facts of the case.

[86] There was a _quasi_ charge of plagiarism against Bunyan at one time current, and particulars respecting it came to the light some sixty years ago in a correspondence of Robert Southey (who edited the _Major_ edition of _Pilgrim’s Progress_) with George Offor, Esq., which appears in the _Reminiscences_ of Joseph Cottle of Bristol. The allegation was, that Bunyan had taken hints for his allegory from an old Dutch book, _Duyfkens ande Willemynkyns Pilgrimagee_ (with five cuts by Bolswert), published at Antwerp in the year 1627. Dr. Southey dismissed the allegation with disdain, after examination of the _Dutch Pilgrimage_; nor do recent editors appear to have counted the charge worthy of refutation.

[87] Thomas Fuller, b. 1608; d. 1661. _The Worthies of England_ is his best-known book--a reservoir of anecdote and witty comments upon “men and manners.”

[88] Thomas Browne, b. 1605; d. 1682. Full collection of his works (with Johnson’s _Life_), Bohn, 1851. A very charming edition of the _Religio Medici_--so good in print--so full in notes--so convenient to the hand--is that of the “Golden Treasury Series,” Macmillan. Nor can I forbear reference to that keen, sympathetic essay on this writer which appears in Walter Pater’s _Appreciations_, Macmillan, 1889.

[89] William Temple, b. 1628; d. 1699. His works, mainly political writings, were published in two volumes folio, 1720; a later edition, 1731, including the Letters of Temple (edited, and as title-page says--published by Jonathan Swift), was dedicated to his Majesty William III.

[90] This old country home, very charming with its antique air, its mossy terraces, its giant cedars, is still held by a Sir Henry Dryden.

[91] Otway, b. 1631; d. 1685, son of a Sussex clergyman, was author of many poor plays, and of two--“The Orphan” and “Venice Preserved”--sure to live. With much native refinement and extraordinary pathetic power, he went to the bad; was crazed by hopeless love for an actress (Mrs. Barry) in his own plays; plunged thereafter into wildest dissipation, and died destitute and neglected.

[92] Shall I except his re-telling of the tale of Cymon and “Iphigene the Fair?”

[93] John Locke, b. 1632; d. 1704. The best edition of Locke’s works is said to be that by Bishop Law, four volumes, 4to, 1777. For Life, Fox Bourne (1876) is latest authority.

[94] This was a weak scion of the house, “born a shapeless lump, like anarchy,” as Dryden savagely says; but--by this very match--he became the father of the brilliant author of the _Characteristics_ (1711).

[95] February 6, 1685.

[96] Matthew Prior, b. 1664; d. 1721.

[97] William Congreve, b. 1670; d. 1729. See edition of his dramatic works, with pleasant introduction by Leigh Hunt (1840).

[98] Daniel Defoe, b. 1661; d. 1731. Little is known of his very early life. Of _Robinson Crusoe_ there have been editions innumerable. Of his complete works no full edition has ever been published--probably never will be.

[99] Richard Steele, b. 1672; d. 1729. He was born in Dublin, and died on his wife’s estate at Llanngunnor, near Caermarthen, in Wales.

[100] The _Christian Hero_ appeared in 1701; and it was in the same year that Steele’s first play of “The Funeral” was acted at Drury Lane. “The Lying Lover” appeared in 1703, and “The Tender Husband” in 1705.

[101] I take the careful reckoning of Mr. Dobson in his _Life of Steele_, 1886.

[102] It is, however, seriously to be doubted if Addison ever saw the “Atticus” satire.

[103] “_Je tire vers ma fin._” Smollett (Book I., chap. vi.); not a strong authority in most matters, but--from his profession of medicine--an apt one to ferret out actual details in respect to royal illness.

[104] Sir John Vanbrugh, b. (about) 1666; d. 1726. His comedies were better thought of than his buildings, both in his own day and in ours.

[105] Sir Christopher Wren, b. 1631; d. 1723. The cathedral was begun in 1675, and virtually finished in 1710, though there may have been many “last touches” for the aged architect.

[106] John Gay, b. 1685; d. 1732.

[107]

“O roving muse! recall that wondrous year,
When hoary Thames, with frosted osiers crown’d,
Was three long moons in icy fetters bound.”

The allusion is doubtless to the year 1684, famous for its exceeding cold.

[108] Jonathan Swift, b. 1667; d. 1745. Most noticeable biographies are those by Scott, Craik, and Stephen; the latter not minute, but having judicial repose, and quite delightful. Scott’s edition of his works (originally published in 1814) is still the fullest and best.

[109] Sir William Temple did not finally abandon his home at Sheen--where he had beautiful gardens--until the year 1689. A stretch of Richmond Park, with its deer-fed turf, now covers all traces of Temple’s old home; the name however is kept most pleasantly alive by the pretty Sheen cottage (Professor Owen’s home), with its carp-pond in front, and its charming, sequestered bit of wild garden in the rear.

[110] “Varina” was a Miss Waring, sister of a college mate. Years after, when Swift came by better church appointments, Varina wrote to him a letter calculated to fan the flame of a constant lover; but she received such reply--at once disdainful and acquiescent--as was met only with contemptuous silence.

[111] Both of these satires written between 1696-1698, but not published till six years later.

[112] Button’s was another favorite Coffee-house in Russell Street--on the opposite side from Will’s--and nearer Covent Garden. I must express my frequent obligations, in respect of London Topography, to the interesting _Literary Landmarks_ of Mr. Laurence Hutton.

[113] Acquaintance with Miss Vanhomrigh probably first made in winter of 1708, but no family intimacy till year 1710. See _Athenæum_, January 16, 1886, in notice of Lane-Poole’s _Letters and Journals of Swift_.

[114] Henry Morley, in the recent editing of his Carrisbrooke _Swift_, lays stress upon the sufficient warning which Miss Vanhomrigh should have found in this poem. It appears to me that he sees too much in Swift’s favor and too little in Vanessa’s.

[115] Miss Vanhomrigh died in May, 1723; and the final renewal of Bishop Berkeley’s deed of gift (of the Whitehall farm, Newport) to Yale College, is dated August 17, 1733.

[116] Thomas Sheridan, D.D., father of “Dictionary” Sheridan, and grandfather of Richard Brinsley. He was a great friend of Swift, and _Gulliver’s Travels_ was prepared for the press at his cottage in Cavan (Quilca).

[117] _The Drapier Letters_ were published in 1724. When the successive parts of _Gulliver_ were written it is impossible to determine. A portion was certainly in existence as early as 1722. The whole was not published until 1726-27.

_INDEX._

Addison, Joseph, 259, 280;
early life of, 288 _et seq._;
his “Cato,” 289;
_The Spectator_, 290;
“Sir Roger De Coverley,” 291;
Swift’s opinion of the _Spectator_, 292;
his marriage, 294;
“The Vision of Mirza,” 295;
his political life, 297;
his death, 298.

Anne, Princess, daughter of James II., 262;
Queen, 267;
her characteristics, 278;
her accession to the throne, 302.

Aubrey, 94, 141.

Baxter, Richard, his _Saints’ Rest_, 187.

Beaumont and Fletcher, 38, 93;
a quotation from “Philaster,” 97;
“The Faithful Shepherdess,” 98.

Bible, King James’, 44 _et seq._;
dedication of, 45;
the revisers of, 47 _et seq._;
its literary value, 51 _et seq._;
early English, 54;
the Genevan, 55;
the Bishops’, 55;
the first American, 56.

Blackfriars Theatre, 34.

Blenheim Palace, 305.

Bodley, John, 55.

Boyle, Robert, 207.

Boyne, battle of the, 264.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 222.

Buchanan, George, 7.

Buckingham, Duke of, and Charles I., 133;
his son, author of “The Rehearsal,” 134.

Buckingham, the Second Villiers, 184.

Bunyan, John, 209;
his birthplace, 210;
his early life and marriage, 211;
a preacher, 212;
imprisoned, 213;
his _Pilgrim’s Progress_, 215.

Burnet’s _History of his Own Times_, 202, 258.

Burton, Robert, author of _Anatomy of Melancholy_, 144.

Busino, his account of the representation of Jonson’s “Pleasure is
Reconciled to Virtue,” at Whitehall, 29 _et seq._

Butler, Samuel, author of _Hudibras_, 193.

Cary, Sir Robert, carries to Edinburgh the news of the Queen’s death, 8.

Charlecote House, 66.

Charles I., 105, 132;
influence of the Duke of Buckingham on, 133;
execution of, 162 _et seq._

Charles II., restoration of, 182;
death of, 255.

Charter House, the, 11.

Clarendon, Earl of, his _History of the Rebellion_, 201.

Compton, Lord, 24.

Congreve, William, 269;
visited by Voltaire, 270.

_Counterblast to Tobacco_, the, of James I., 7, 104.

Cowley, Abraham, 145;
an extract from his “Hymn to Light,” 146;
compared with Tennyson, 147.

Cromwell, 163.

Davies, Sir John, his lines on the _Immortality of the Soul_, 49.

Defoe, Daniel, 258, 272;
a pamphleteer, 273;
his _Advice to English Tradesmen_, 274;
his _Robinson Crusoe_, 276;
on the Commission in Edinburgh, 277.

Diodati, Charles, the friend of Milton, 156.

Donne, John, 49, note.

Dorset, 186.

Doxology, of the Lord’s Prayer, the, 52.

Drummond of Hawthornden, 28;
entertains Jonson, 28 _et seq._

Dryden, John, 227;
his fertility, 228;
his eulogies of Cromwell and Charles II., 230 _et seq._;
Mr. Saintsbury’s opinion of his consistency, 232;
his _Annus Mirabilis_, 233;
the London of, 234;
his plays, 238;
his _Hind and Panther_, 241;
his Virgil, 243;
his “All for Love,” 244;
estimate of him, 246, 259, 261.

Ellwood, Milton’s friend, 175.

Elizabeth, Queen, and the English Bible, 55.

Elizabeth, daughter of James I., 100.

England at the death of Elizabeth, 1 _et seq._

Etherege, 186.

Evelyn, John, 137;
his diary, 201.

Ford, John, 91.

_Fortunes of Nigel_, Scott’s, its picture of James I., 19, 35.

Freeman, Mr., his misleading averment as to the errors in _Ivanhoe_, 20.

Fuller, Thomas, his _English Worthies_, 221.

Gay, John, 308;
his “Beggar’s Opera,” 308;
his _Trivia_, 310.

Globe Theatre in Shakespeare’s time, 33, 36.

Gosson, Stephen, a representation of the Puritan feeling, 42.

Greenwich Hospital, 265.

Hampton Court Conference, 44 _et seq._

Harrison, William, 20 _et seq._

Herbert, George, the poet, 7;
poems of, 115;
his marriage, 118, 128.

Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, 7.

Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke, 74, note.

Herrick, Robert, 120;
specimens of his verse, 122;
character of, 124;
his _Hesperides_, 125.

Howell, James, 107.

_Hudibras_, 193.

James I., his pedigree, 4 _et seq._;
his person and character, 6 _et seq._;
his journey to London to be crowned, 9 _et seq._;
his family, 100;
tastes and characteristics of, 101 _et seq._;
his _Counterblast to the Use of Tobacco_, 36, 104.

James II., 256.

Johnson, Hester (“Stella”), 314, 321;
Swift’s letters to, 328;
“Stella’s Journal,” 329;
her secret marriage with Swift, 335;
and Vanessa, 335;
death of, 337.

Jonson, Ben, his adulation of the King, 26;
his literary versatility, 27;
his masque at Whitehall, 29 _et seq._, 106.

_Judith Shakespeare_, William Black’s novel, 33.

Kenilworth, Walter Scott’s, 201.

Kensington in Queen Anne’s time, 308.

Kingsley’s pictures of Elizabethan characters and times, 18 _et seq._

Lamb, Charles, influence of Sir Thomas Browne upon, 224;
his essay, “The Genteel Style in Writing,” 227.

Laud, Archbishop, 134, 136.

Lily, Milton’s schoolmaster, 152, 186.

Locke, John, his treatise on the _Human Understanding_, 249;
his life, 250;
on education, 252.

“McFingal,” the, of John Trumbull, 196.

Marlborough, Duke of, 303.

Marlborough, Duchess of, 302;
her influence over Queen Anne, 304.

Marston, John, specimen of his satire, 92.

Marvell, Andrew, Milton’s assistant, 170;
story of his good fortune, 189;
his “Garden,” etc., 191.

Mary, Queen, daughter of James II., 262;
death of, 301.

Massinger’s “A New Way to Pay Old Debts,” 60, 93, 94.

Masson’s _Life and Times of Milton_, 151.

Mermaid Tavern, the, 34, 151.

Milton, John, 150;
Masson’s Life of, 151;
his father, 151;
at school, 152;
his early verse, 153 _et seq._;
at Cambridge, 153;
his travels, 156;
his marriage to Mary Powell, 157;
his daughters, 160;
his first published poems, 160;
his pamphlets, 161;
his defence of regicide, 164;
in peril, 167;
domestic life, 169;
Munkacsy’s picture of, 169;
his third marriage, 171;
_The Paradise Lost_, 171;
his use of other books, 173;
his last days, 174;
payments for his _Paradise_, 176;
deserted by his daughters, 177;
_Paradise Regained_ and _Samson Agonistes_, 177, 188;
his death, 179.

_Mortality, Old_, Scott’s novel, 264.

Newton, Isaac, 207, 258.

“New Way to Pay Old Debts, A,” 60, 94.

_Nigel_, Scott’s novel, 19, 35.

_Old Mortality_, Scott’s novel, 324.

Otway, Thomas, 237.

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 114, his _Characters_.

“Overreach, Sir Giles,” 60, 94.

Penn, William, 258.

Pepys, Mr., his purchase of _Hudibras_, 194, 198;
his diary, 199;
extracts from, 202.

_Peveril of the Peak_, Scott’s, 184.

Primer, the Old New England, 54.

Prior, Matthew, 258, 268.

Prynne, William, 142;
his _Histriomastix_, 143.

Raleigh, Walter, 11 _et seq._;
in the Tower, 13;
his _History of the World_, 13;
his expedition to Guiana, 13;
executed, 15;
specimens of his writings, 15 _et seq._;
his _Ocean to Cynthia_, 17, note;
his life an epitome of Elizabethan times, 18.

Rochester, Earl of, 185.

Selden, John, his _Table-Talk_, 129.

Shakespeare, 32 _et seq._;
56 _et seq._;
his characters real, 58;
his personality, 61;
his family relations, 67;
his children, 68, 84;
in London, 73 _et seq._;
early poetry, 75;
“Love’s Labor’s Lost,” 76, 77;
his “Venus and Adonis,” and “Lucrece,” 77;
like Chaucer in taking his material, 79;
his closing years, 81 _et seq._;
his son-in-law, Dr. Hall, 83.

Sheridan, Thomas, 337.

Sidney, Lady Dorothy, pursued by Waller, 149.

Southampton, Earl of, 74.

Spencer, Sir John, his dwelling, Crosby Hall, 23;
a letter of his daughter, 24 _et seq._

Steele, Richard, 259;
author of the _Tatler_, 280;
his _Christian Hero_, 281;
his marriages, 281 _et seq._;
his literary qualities, 285.

Stratford, the town of, and surrounding country, 63;
a walk to, from Windsor, 70.

Stuart, house of, 4.

Suckling, Sir John, 140;
his tragic death, 142.

Swift, Jonathan, 226, 259;
early life of, 312;
his life at Sir William Temple’s, 313;
goes back to Ireland, 314;
his _Battle of the Books_ and _Tale of a Tub_, 316;
appointed chaplain to Lord Berkeley, 318;
his politics, 324;
his London life, 328;
_Stella’s Journal_, 328;
“Cadenus and Vanessa,” 332;
back in Ireland, 333;
his secret marriage with Stella, 335;
his _Gulliver’s Travels_, 340;
his madness and death, 340.

Swinburne, his estimate of Webster, 89.

Taine, his overdrawn picture of the Restoration, 186.

Taylor, Jeremy, 135;
his career, 136;
his _Holy Living and Dying_, 139.

Taylor, John, “the Water Poet,” a favorite of James I., 102.

Temple, Sir William, 224, 313;
death of, 317.

Theobalds, King James’ palace, 10, 105.

Tillotson, John, 188.

Tobacco in literature, 103 _et seq._

Trumbull, John, his _McFingal_, 196.

“Two Noble Kinsmen,” 95.

Vanbrugh, Sir John, 306.

“Vanessa,” Swift’s letter to, 315.

Vanhomrigh, Miss (“Vanessa”), 331;
death of, 336.

Waller, Edmund, 145;
his literary importance, 149.

Walton, Izaak, 111;
his _Angler_, 112;
his biographic sketches, 113.

Webster, John, 88;
Dyce’s edition of his works, 89;
character of his plays, 90;
Swinburne’s estimate of, 89.

_Westward, Ho!_ Kingsley’s, 18.

William and Mary, 256.

William of Orange, 263 _et seq._

William III., 263;
his death, 301.

Will’s Coffee-house, 236.

_Woodstock_, Scott’s novel, 168.

Woodstock, the park at, 305.

Wotton, Sir Henry, 109.

Wren, Sir Christopher, 306.