Chapter III: Part II: “good Sentences”

1639 Anonymous 219
1681 John Crowne 220
1737 Alexander Pope 221
1745 James Thomson 222
1767 Anonymous 223
_a._ 1767 George Colman 224
1776 Richard Graves 225
1778 Horace Walpole 226
1787 Daniel Webb 227
1801 William Lisle Bowles 228
1807 Felicia Dorothea Hemans 229
1811 Francis, Lord Jeffrey 230
1811 George Dyer 231
1812 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 232
1813 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 232
1817 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 232
1817 Leigh Hunt 233
1818 William Hazlitt 234
1818 Percy Bysshe Shelley 235
1819 John Keats 236
1821 William Hazlitt 237
1821 Robert Southey 238
1821 Lord Byron 239
1822 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 240
1827 Thomas Hood 241
1828 Thomas Carlyle 242
1830 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 243
1830 Anonymous 244
1831 Lord Macaulay 245
1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 246
1836 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 246
1837 Leigh Hunt 247
1838 Thomas de Quincey 248
1839 Thomas de Quincey 248
1839 Thomas Carlyle 249
1844 Leigh Hunt 250
1844 Ralph Waldo Emerson 251
1844 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 252
_a._ 1846 Walter Savage Landor 253
1847 Thomas de Quincey 254
1850 Robert Browning 255
_a._ 1850 William Wordsworth 256
_a._ 1851 David Macbeth Moir 257
1851 Thomas Lovell Beddoes 258
1853 Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton 259
1857 Charles Mackay 260
_c._ 1860 Abraham Lincoln 261
1860 Ralph Waldo Emerson 262
1865 Cardinal Wiseman 263
1867 Thomas Carlyle 264
1867 Matthew Arnold 265
1870 James Russell Lowell 266
1875 Edward Dowden 267
1879 Matthew Arnold 268
1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 269
1884 William Watson 270
1893 Richard Green Moulton 271
1894 Sir John Robert Seeley 272
1896 John Ruskin 273