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- CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS, VOLUME II
- By Thomas Babington Macaulay
- FOREIGN HISTORY
- MACHIAVELLI
- RANKE’S HISTORY OF THE POPES
- WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
- FREDERIC THE GREAT
- POLITICAL CONTROVERSY
- SOUTHEY’S COLLOQUIES
- CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS
- GLADSTONE ON CHURCH AND STATE
- LITERARY CRITICISMS
- BACON
- JOHN BUNYAN
- DRAMATISTS OF THE RESTORATION
- ADDISON
- SAMUEL JOHNSON
- MADAME D’ARBLAY
- BYRON
- MONTGOMERY
- INDEX
- MACHIAVELLI
- VON RANKE
- WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN
- FREDERIC THE GREAT
- It was in the year 1750 that Voltaire le
- SOUTHEY’S COLLOQUIES
- CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS
- GLADSTONE ON CHURCH AND STATE
- We are not at all surprised to find such
- FRANCIS BACON
- Three judges of the Court of King’s Benc
- There was one sect which, however absurd
- JOHN BUNYAN
- LEIGH HUNT
- THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON
- At the close of 1708 Wharton became Lord
- SAMUEL JOHNSON
- Rather,” says Sir William Jones,=
- MADAME D’ARBLAY
- There is nothing new under the sun. The
- MOORE’S LIFE OF LORD BYRON
- He praised Pope; yet he regretted that Pope had=
- MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY
- Mr. Campbell, in one of his most pleasing pieces, has this line,=
- Then comes a curious specimen of our poet’s English:=
- The tempest is thus described:=
- Our poet then proceeds to demonstrate the immortality of the soul:=
- Mr. Montgomery apostrophises the=
- INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF ALLUSIONS
- Alcina, the personification of carnal pleasure in the Orlando Furioso
- Alva, Duke of, the infamous governor of the Netherlands (1508-82)
- Armorica, France between the Seine and the Loire, Brittany
- Bender, 80 miles N.W. from Odessa, in S. Russia
- Bettesworth, an Irishman, lampooned in Swift’s Miscellanies
- Black Frank, Johnson’s negro servant, Frank Barber
- CACUS, the mythological giant who stole the oxen of Hercules
- Capuchins, a branch of the monastic order of the Franciscans
- Carter, Mrs., a distinguished linguist and translator of Epictetus
- Chatelet, Madame du, Voltaire’s mistress, c 1733-47 (d. 1749)
- Chaulieu, Guillaume, a witty but negligent poetaster (1639-1720)
- Constituent Assembly, the National Assembly of France from 1789 to 1792
- Cortes, conqueror of Mexico (1485-1547); the Spanish Parliament
- Digby, Lord, one of the Royalist leaders and a typical Cavalier
- Distressed Mother, by Ambrose Phillipps, modelled on Racine’s Andromaque
- Essex, Queen Elizabeth’s favourite courtier who took Cadiz in 1596
- Eylau, 20 miles south from Konigsberg victory of Napoleon, 1807
- Felton, John, who assassinated the Duke of Buckingham in 1628
- Ferguson, Sir Adam, M.P. for Ayrshire, 1774-80
- Florimel. (see Spenser’s Faery Queen, books iii. and iv.)
- Gibby, Sir, Sir Gilbert Heathcote
- Grecian, the, the resort of the learned in Devereux Street Strand
- Harpagon, the miser in Moliere’s L’Avare
- Henriade, Voltaire’s La Ligue, ou Henri le Grand
- Holofernes, the pedantic school-master in Love’s Labour ‘s Last
- Hutten, Ulrich von, German humanist and reformer (1488-1523)
- IMLAC (see Johnson’s Rasselas, Ch. viii xii.)
- Jeanie Deans (see Scott’s The Heart Of Midlothian)
- Leman Lake, Lake of Geneva
- MACLEOD, Colonel (see Tour to the Hebrides, Sept. 23)
- Markland, Jeremiah a famous classical scholar and critic (1693-1776)
- Meillerie, on the Lake of Geneva, immortalised by J. J. Rousseau
- Metastasio, Pietro Trapassi, an Italian poet (1698-1782)
- Monmouth Street, now called Dudley Street
- Morone, an Italian cardinal and diplomatist (1509-80)
- Murillo, Spain’s greatest painter (1618-82)
- PADALON, the Hindu abode of departed Spirits
- Paestum, ancient Posidonia, mod. Pesto, 22 miles S.E. from Salerno, 471
- Parson Barnabas, Parson Trulliber (see Fielding’s Joseph Andrews)
- Pococurante, one who cares little and knows less: a dabbler
- Pyrgopolynices, a braggart character in Plautus’s Miles Gloriosus
- Rochelle and Auvergne, head-quarters of the Huguenots
- Scamander, a river of Troas, in Asia Minor
- Scudert, George de, French poet and novelist (1601-67)
- Seged (see The Rambler, Nos. 204, 205)
- Shafton, Sir Piercie (see Scott’s The Monastery)
- Spectator (the reference is to No. 7)
- Squire Sullen (see Farquhar’s The Beaux Stratagem)
- Squire Western, the genial fox-hunting Squire of Fielding’s Tom Jones
- Sweden gained Western Pomerania
- Swerga, the Hindu Olympus an the summit of Mount Meru
- Tanais, the river Don in Eastern Russia
- Thalia, the muse of Comedy and one of the three Graces
- Thiebault, Professor of Grammar at Frederic’s military school
- Thraso, a braggart captain in Terence’s Eunuch
- Treaty of the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, 1659
- Trissotin, simpering literary dabbler in Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes
- Two Sicilies, the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples
- Vida, an Italian Latin poet (c. 1480-1566)
- Will’s. See Button’s
- Witwould, Sir Wilful. Set Congreve’s The Way of the World
- Wronghead, Sir Francis, Vanbrugh and Cibber’s The Provoked Husband
- XIMENES, Cardinal, statesman, and regent (1436-1517)