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ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS AND KINGS

Queen Anne and the Georges

BY

DONALD G. MITCHELL

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[To Mrs. Grover Cleveland.]

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_Many bookmakers of that early Georgian period covered by this little volume eagerly sought to dignify their opening pages with the name and titles of some high-placed patron or patroness. It is not, my dear Madam, to revive this practice that I have asked permission to inscribe this little book to so worthy an occupant of the Presidential Mansion; but, rather, I have had in mind the courteous reception which--while yet an inmate of a college on the beautiful banks of Cayuga Lake--you once gave to some portions of the literary talk embodied in these pages; and remembering, furthermore, the unswerving dignity, and the unabating womanly gentleness by which you have conquered and adorned the trying conditions of a high career, I have wished to add my applause (as I do now and here) for the grace and kindliness which have ennobled your life, and made us all proud of such an example of American womanhood._

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_CONTENTS._

CHAPTER I.

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An Irish Bishop, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A Scholar, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Two Doctors, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Lady Wortley Montagu, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Alexander Pope, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
His Poetic Methods, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The Rape of the Lock, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Pope's Homer, and Life at Twickenham, . . . . . . . . . . 43
His Last Days, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

CHAPTER II.

From Stuart to Brunswick, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Samuel, Richardson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Harry Fielding, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Poet of the Seasons, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Thomas Gray, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
A Courtier, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Young Mr. Johnson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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CHAPTER III.

Johnson and Rasselas, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
The Painter and the Club, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Some Old Club-Men, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Mr. Boswell, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Gibbon, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Oliver Goldsmith, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
The Thrales and the End, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

CHAPTER IV.

A Scottish Historian, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
A Pair of Poets, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Miss Burney, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Hannah More, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

CHAPTER V.

King George III., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Two Orators, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
An Orator and Playwright, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
The Boy Chatterton, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Laurence Sterne, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

CHAPTER VI.

Macpherson and other Scots, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
George Crabbe, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
William Cowper, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
His Later Life, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

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CHAPTER VII.

Parson White, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
A Hampshire Novelist, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Old Juvenilia, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Miss Edgeworth, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Some Early Romanticism, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Vathek, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Robert Burns, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

CHAPTER VIII.

A Banker Poet, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Coleridge, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Charles Lamb, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Wordsworth, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
His Poems, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Personal History, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

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