Amenities of
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- AMENITIES OF LITERATURE,
- ISAAC DISRAELI.
- THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- BRITAIN AND THE BRITONS 12
- THE NAME OF ENGLAND AND OF THE ENGLISH 24
- THE ANGLO-SAXONS 28
- CAEDMON AND MILTON 37
- BEOWULF; THE HERO-LIFE 51
- THE ANGLO-NORMANS 59
- THE PAGE, THE BARON, AND THE MINSTREL 70
- GOTHIC ROMANCES 81
- ORIGIN OF THE VERNACULAR LANGUAGES OF EUROPE 96
- ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 111
- VICISSITUDES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 128
- DIALECTS 142
- MANDEVILLE; OUR FIRST TRAVELLER 151
- CHAUCER 158
- GOWER 177
- PIERS PLOUGHMAN 183
- OCCLEVE; THE SCHOLAR OF CHAUCER 191
- LYDGATE; THE MONK OF BURY 196
- THE INVENTION OF PRINTING 203
- THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTER 214
- EARLY LIBRARIES 221
- HENRY THE SEVENTH 228
- FIRST SOURCES OF MODERN HISTORY 234
- ARNOLDE'S CHRONICLE 240
- THE FIRST PRINTED CHRONICLE 243
- HENRY THE EIGHTH; HIS LITERARY CHARACTER 250
- BOOKS OF THE PEOPLE 256
- THE DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY A PRIMITIVE AUTHOR 268
- SKELTON 276
- THE SHIP OF FOOLS 285
- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF SIR THOMAS MORE 289
- THE EARL OF SURREY AND SIR THOMAS WYATT 303
- THE SPOLIATION OF THE MONASTERIES 316
- A CRISIS AND A REACTION; ROBERT CROWLEY 322
- PRIMITIVE DRAMAS 339
- ROGER ASCHAM 359
- PUBLIC OPINION 368
- ORTHOGRAPHY AND ORTHOEPY 381
- THE ANCIENT METRES IN MODERN VERSE 393
- ORIGIN OF RHYME 399
- RHYMING DICTIONARIES 403
- THE ARTE OF ENGLISH POESIE 405
- THE DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT 413
- THE FIRST JESUITS IN ENGLAND 423
- HOOKER 439
- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 451
- SPENSER 460
- THE FAERY QUEEN 475
- ALLEGORY 487
- THE FIRST TRAGEDY AND THE FIRST COMEDY 502
- THE PREDECESSORS AND CONTEMPORARIES OF SHAKESPEARE 514
- SHAKESPEARE 529
- THE "HUMOURS" OF JONSON 578
- DRAYTON 584
- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF RAWLEIGH 590
- THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHER, DR. DEE 617
- THE ROSACRUSIAN FLUDD 642
- BACON 650
- THE FIRST FOUNDER OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY 661
- THE AGE OF DOCTRINES 681
- PAMPHLETS 685
- THE OCEANA OF HARRINGTON 692
- THE AUTHOR OF "THE GROUNDS AND REASONS OF MONARCHY" 709
- COMMONWEALTH 712
- THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE 714
- DIFFICULTIES OF THE PUBLISHERS OF CONTEMPORARY MEMOIRS 724
- THE WAR AGAINST BOOKS 738
- AMENITIES OF LITERATURE.
- THE DRUIDICAL INSTITUTION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- BRITAIN AND THE BRITONS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE NAME OF ENGLAND AND OF THE ENGLISH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ANGLO-SAXONS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CAEDMON AND MILTON.
- Caedmon, the Saxonists hail as "the Father of English Song!"
- Satan in Hebrew signifying "the Enemy," or "the Adversary."
- FOOTNOTES:
- BEOWULF; THE HERO-LIFE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ANGLO-NORMANS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE PAGE, THE BARON, AND THE MINSTREL.
- FOOTNOTES:
- GOTHIC ROMANCES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ORIGIN OF THE VERNACULAR LANGUAGES OF EUROPE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
- And in another,--
- FOOTNOTES:
- At the end the monk tells us for whom he writes--
- VICISSITUDES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Now we have plain, intelligible prose--
- DIALECTS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- MANDEVILLE; OUR FIRST TRAVELLER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAUCER.
- His
- FOOTNOTES:
- GOWER.
- PIERS PLOUGHMAN.
- FOOTNOTES:
- OCCLEVE; THE SCHOLAR OF CHAUCER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- LYDGATE's "Troy."
- LYDGATE; THE MONK OF BURY.
- LYDGATE, in his "Fall of Princes."
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE INVENTION OF PRINTING
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- EARLY LIBRARIES.
- London, Frederick Warne & C^o.]
- FOOTNOTES:
- HENRY THE SEVENTH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- FIRST SOURCES OF MODERN HISTORY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ARNOLDE'S CHRONICLE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE FIRST PRINTED CHRONICLE.
- FOOTNOTE:
- HENRY THE EIGHTH; HIS LITERARY CHARACTER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- BOOKS OF THE PEOPLE.
- Not for the lerid, but the lewed;[4]
- Sung to the wheel, and sung unto the payle.[5]
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY A PRIMITIVE AUTHOR.
- SKELTON.
- But Skelton was never more vivid than in his Ale-wife, and all
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE SHIP OF FOOLS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF SIR THOMAS MORE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE EARL OF SURREY AND SIR THOMAS WYATT.
- On Surrey's ideal passion, and on this passage misconceived--
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE SPOLIATION OF THE MONASTERIES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- A CRISIS AND A REACTION. ROBERT CROWLEY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PRIMITIVE DRAMAS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- FOOTNOTES:
- ROGER ASCHAM.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PUBLIC OPINION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ORTHOGRAPHY AND ORTHOEPY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ANCIENT METRES IN MODERN VERSE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ORIGIN OF RHYME.
- FOOTNOTES:
- RHYMING DICTIONARIES.
- FOOTNOTE:
- THE ARTE OF ENGLISH POESIE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE FIRST JESUITS IN ENGLAND.
- FOOTNOTES:
- HOOKER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
- SIDNEY, WARBLER OF POETIC PROSE!
- FOOTNOTES:
- SPENSER.
- Spenser has here disclosed involuntarily "the secret sorrow."
- And he repeats the accusation in "Mother Hubbard's Tale"--
- But the minister could not banish him from the sovereign:--
- I suspect that Burleigh figures again among
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE FAERY QUEEN.
- The inanity of that race--
- Forgot he was a Man, and JEALOUSY is hight.[4]
- FOOTNOTES:
- ALLEGORY.
- Belphoebe on the sudden appears, and indignantly exclaims--
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE FIRST TRAGEDY AND THE FIRST COMEDY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- THE PREDECESSORS AND CONTEMPORARIES OF SHAKESPEARE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SHAKESPEARE.
- Stars shot madly from their spheres
- FOOTNOTES:
- Again the printer's text runs--
- The poet corrected this also to "whose OWNER."
- THE "HUMOURS" OF JONSON.
- The philosopher then offers
- FOOTNOTES:
- DRAYTON.
- TO ANY THAT WILL READ IT!
- I feare, as I do stabbing, this word, state.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF RAWLEIGH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHER, DR. DEE.
- A VOICE. "_Est. Et quo modo est?_"
- ANOTHER VOICE. "_Male et in summo: et mensuratum est._"
- ANOTHER VOICE. "_The Seal is broken!_"
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ROSACRUSIAN FLUDD.
- FOOTNOTES:
- BACON.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE FIRST FOUNDER OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE AGE OF DOCTRINES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PAMPHLETS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE OCEANA OF HARRINGTON.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE AUTHOR OF "THE GROUNDS AND REASONS OF MONARCHY."
- FOOTNOTES:
- COMMONWEALTH.
- FOOTNOTE:
- THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- DIFFICULTIES OF THE PUBLISHERS OF CONTEMPORARY MEMOIRS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE WAR AGAINST BOOKS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX.
- ARNOLDE'S CHRONICLE, 240--242.
- BABBLE, etymology of, 3, _n._
- BIBLE AND KEY, mode of discovering thieves, 420, _n._
- BIBLIOTHEQUE BLEUE, 260.
- BORDE, ANDREW, 263--265.
- COCKRAM, H., his dictionary, 139, _n._
- DIALECTS, 142--150.
- DODSLEY'S edition of old plays, 559, _n._
- GIBBERISH, derivation of the term, 651, _n._
- HOSKYNS, a critic and poet, temp. James I., 623, _n._
- JACKSON, Z., comments on Shakespeare, 547, _n._
- LAMBE, Chas., his specimens of the dramatic poets, 519, _n._, 528, _n._
- MABINOGION, the, 21, _n._
- MASSINGER'S plays, faulty in printed editions, 547, _n._
- OCCASIONALISTS, 423.
- POPE'S edition of Shakespeare, 558--590, _n._
- POSSESSIONERS, 331.
- RHYMING DICTIONARIES, 403.
- ROPER'S Life of More, 291, _n._
- SCOGIN THE JESTER, 263, _n._
- SERVANT'S Song, 511, _n._
- SKULLS as drinking cups, 32, _n._
- STONEHENGE, 10, _n._
- TRIADS, Welsh, 22, 23, _n._
- WITCH-FINDERS, 417.
- YARRINGTON and his tragedies, 518, _n._
- BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.