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Tables of Contents for British Literature 1640-1789
Ballads and Newsbooks From the Civil War (1640-1649)
1
5
The World is Turned Upside Down (1646)
1
1
The King's Last Farewell to the World, or the Dead King's Living Meditations, at the Approach of Death Denounced Against Him (1649)
2
1
The Royal Health to the Rising Sun (1649)
3
1
from A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament (1649)
Number 288 29 January-5 February 16494
1
from Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649)
Number 43 30 January-6 February 16495
1
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
6
3
from Leviathan (1651)
Chapter XIII Of the Natural Condition of Mankind, as Concerning Their Felicity, and Misery6
3
Robert Filmer (d. 1653)
9
2
from Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings Asserted (1680)
Kings are Either Fathers of Their People, or Heirs of Such Fathers, or The Usurpers of the Rights of Such Fathers9
1
Of The Escheating of Kingdoms9
1
Of the Agreement of Paternal and Regal Power10
1
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
11
5
from Hesperides (1648)
The Argument of His Book11
1
To Daffodils11
1
The Night-Piece, to Julia12
1
The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home12
1
Upon Julia's Clothes13
1
When he Would have his verses Read13
1
Delight in Disorder14
1
To the Virgins, to make Much of Time14
1
His Return to London14
1
The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad15
1
The Pillar of Fame15
1
Charles I (1600-1649) and John Gauden (1605-1662)
16
4
from Eikon Basilike (1649)
Upon the Calling in of the Scots, and Their Coming16
4
John Milton (1608-1674)
20
111
from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; Restored to the Good of Both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to Christian freedom, guided by the Rule of Charity. Wherein also many places of Scripture, have recovered their long-lost meaning. Seasonable to be now thought on in the Reformation intended. (1643)
Book I The Preface21
3
From Chapter I24
1
From Chapter VI24
1
from Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644)
24
14
from Eikonoklastes (1649)
Chapter 13 Upon the Calling in of the Scots and Their Coming38
2
from Poems (1673)
Sonnet 18 (1655) On the Late Massacre in Piemont40
1
Sonnet 19 (1652?) `When I Consider how My Light is Spent'40
1
Sonnet 16 [To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652]41
1
from Paradise Lost (1667)
The Verse42
1
Book I42
18
Book II60
22
Book IV82
23
Book IX105
26
Margaret Fell Fox (1614-1702)
131
3
from Women's Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666)
131
3
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
134
2
from Lucasta (1649)
Song To Lucasta, Going to the Wars134
1
Song to Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair134
1
To Althea, From Prison Song135
1
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
136
5
from Poems (1656)
Ode Of Wit136
2
To Mr Hobbes138
3
Lucy Apsley Hutchinson (1620-1681)
141
4
from Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (1664)
141
4
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
145
6
from Miscellaneous Poems (1681)
Bermudas (1653?)145
1
The Mower to the Glo-Worms (1651-2?)146
1
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland (1650)146
2
The Garden (1651-2?)148
1
On a Drop of Dew (1651-2?)149
1
To His Coy Mistress (c. 1645)150
1
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
151
3
from Silex Scintillans (1655)
`They are all Gone Into the World of Light!'151
1
The Night152
2
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
154
7
from Poems and Fancies (1653)
Poets have most Pleasure in this Life154
1
from The Description of a New World, called The Blazing World (1666)
155
6
Dorothy Osborne Temple (1627-1695)
161
2
from Letters to William Temple
Letter 3 8 January 1653161
1
Letter 28 2 July 1653162
1
Letter 58 11 February 1654162
1
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
163
3
from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)
163
3
Katherine Philips (1631-1664)
166
7
from Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda (1667)
Friendship166
1
Friendship's Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia167
1
Epitaph On her Son H. P. at St. Syth's Church Where her Body also Lies Interred168
1
The Virgin168
1
Upon the Graving of Her Name Upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks168
1
To the Truly Competent Judge of Honour, Lucasia, Upon a Scandalous Libel Made by J. J.169
1
To Mrs. Wogan, My Honoured Friend, on the Death of her Husband170
1
Orinda to Lucasia171
1
Parting with Lucasia, A Song171
1
To Antenor, on a Paper of Mine which J. J. Threatens to Publish to Prejudice him172
1
John Dryden (1631-1700)
173
41
To My Honoured Friend, Dr Charleton, on his learned and Useful Works; and more particularly this of Stone-Henge, by him Restored to the true Founders (1663)
174
1
Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem (1681)
181
23
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684)
204
1
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (1686) An Ode
204
5
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687)
209
2
from Fables Ancient and Modern (1700)
Pygmalion and the Statue211
3
John Locke (1632-1704)
214
11
from An Essay concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government (1690)
from Chapter 1214
1
from Chapter 2 Of the State of Nature215
1
from Chapter 4 Of Slavery216
1
from Chapter 5 Of Property217
2
July 1665220
3
August 1665223
2
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
225
54
from Poems upon Several Occasions (1684)
The Golden Age; A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French226
4
A Farewell to Celladon, On his Going into Ireland230
3
On a Copy of Verses made in a Dream, and sent to me in a Morning before I was Awake233
1
To My Lady Morland at Tunbridge234
2
The Disappointment236
3
On a Locket of Hair Wove in a True-Love's Knot, Given Me by Sir R. O.239
1
An Ode to Love240
1
A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation241
1
from Lycidus: or the Lover in Fashion (1688)
To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman242
1
from Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1685)
Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died before243
1
Ovid to Julia. A Letter243
2
Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave. A True History (1688)245
34
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
279
18
from Poems on Several Occasions (1680?)
The Imperfect Enjoyment279
2
A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind281
4
The Disabled Debauchee285
2
Lampoon [On the Women about Town]287
1
Signior Dildo287
3
A Satyr on Charles II290
1
A Letter from Artemiza in the Town to Chiloe in the Country291
6
Archbishop William King (1650-1729)
297
2
from Taxation of Ireland, A.D. 1716. Some observations on the taxes paid by Ireland to support the Government
297
2
Jane Barker (1652-1732)
299
2
from Poetical Recreations: Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes, &c. with Several New Translations (1688)
To My Young Lover on His Vow299
1
Absence for a Time299
1
Parting with300
1
Anne Wharton (1659-1685)
301
2
from A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1693)
301
2
A Song301
1
My Fate301
1
Wit's Abuse302
1
Daniel Defore (1660-1731)
303
32
from An Essay upon Projects (1698)
An Academy for Women303
5
from The True-Born Englishman: A Satire (1700)
Part I308
8
from Part II316
5
The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters: Or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church (1702)
321
8
A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, The next Day after Her Death: To One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury. The 8th of September, 1705 (1706)
329
5
from The London Gazette Monday 11 January to Thursday 14 January 1702
334
1
Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
335
13
from Miscellany Poems (1713)
The Introduction335
2
Life's Progress337
1
Adam Posed337
1
The Petition for an Absolute Retreat338
3
To the Nightingale341
1
A Poem for the Birth-Day of the Right Honourable the Lady Catharine Tufton342
1
The Atheist and the Acorn343
1
The Unequal Fetters343
1
The Answer (to Pope's Impromptu)343
1
The Spleen: A Pindaric Poem (1701; Revised 1713)344
4
Delariviere Manley (1663-1724)
348
11
from Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (1709)
348
11
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
359
6
from Poems on Several Occasions (1718)
To the Honourable Charles Montagu, Esq.359
1
The Lady's Looking-Glass360
1
The Chameleon360
1
For My own Tomb-Stone361
1
Mary Astell (1666-1731)
365
3
from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest. By a Lover of her Sex (1694)
365
3
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
368
70
A Tale of a Tub Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind (1704)
369
56
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)
425
4
A Description of the Morning (1709)
429
1
The Lady's Dressing Room (1732)
430
3
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. Written for the Honour of the Fair Sex (1734)
433
2
A Description of a City Shower (1710)
435
2
Stella's Birth-Day (13 March 1719)
437
1
Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723)
438
2
from Poems on Several Occasions (1703)
The Power of Love438
1
The Emulation439
1
William Congreve (1670-1729)
440
55
The Way of the World (1700)
440
55
Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
495
6
from A Modest Defence of Public Stews: or, an Essay upon Whoring, as it is now practiced in these Kingdoms ... Written by a Layman (1724)
495
6
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729)
501
10
from the Spectator
Number 11 Tuesday, March 13, 1711 [Inkle and Yarico]501
2
Number 267 Saturday, January 5, 1712 [The Plot of Paradise Lost]503
3
Number 279 Saturday, January 19, 1712 [The Sentiments and Language of Paradise Lost]506
3
from Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children (1715)
Against Quarrelling and Fighting509
1
The Sluggard509
2
Mary Molesworth Monck (1677?-1715)
511
2
from Marinda, Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions (1716)
On a Romantic Lady511
1
from Poems by Eminent Ladies (1755)
Verses Written on her Death-bed at Bath to her Husband in London511
2
John Gay (1685-1732)
513
15
from Poems on Several Occasions (1720)
from Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London Book III. Of Walking the Streets by Night513
10
The Toilette; A Town Eclogue. Lydia523
2
from Fables (1727)
The Turkey and the Ant525
1
The Man and the Flea526
2
Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
528
2
from The Poems of Allan Ramsay (1800)
Polwart on the Green (1721)528
1
Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land (1721)529
1
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
530
57
The RAPE of the LOCK. An Heroi-Comical Poem (1714)
531
18
from The Dunciad Variorum (1729)
Martinus Scriblerus, of the Poem549
3
Dunciados Periocha: or, Arguments to the Books552
1
The Dunciad Book the First
553
8
Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady (1735)
561
7
from The New Dunciad: as it was Found in the Year 1741 (1742)
To the Reader568
1
The Argument Book the Fourth568
17
from Letters
To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1 September 1718)585
2
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
587
12
from Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M-y W-y M-u: Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. Which Contain, Among other Curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks; Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers
To the Lady X587
2
To the Lady589
1
[To Lady Mar]590
2
To Mr. [Alexander] Pope592
1
To Mr. [Alexander] P[ope]593
1
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S[wift] to Write a Poem Called the Lady's Dressing Room (1732-4)
596
2
To the Memory of Mr Congreve (1729?)
598
1
[A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice to a Lady] (1731-3)
598
1
Mary Barber (1690-1757)
599
3
from Poems on Several Occasions (1734)
The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr. C599
2
A Letter for my Son to one of his School-fellows, Son to Henry Rose, Esq.601
1
Eliza Fowler Haywood (1693-1756)
602
15
Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze (1724)
602
15
Trials at the Old Bailey (1722-1727)
617
7
from Select Trials at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey (1742)
H--- J---, for a Rape, 1722617
1
Gabriel Lawrence, for Sodomy, April, 1726618
2
Mary Picart, Alias Gandon, for Bigamy, June, 1725620
1
Richard Savage, James Gregory, and William Merchant, for Murder, Thursday, Dec. 7, 1727620
4
James Thomson (1700-1748)
624
10
Winter. A Poem (1726)
624
10
Stephen Duck (1705-1756)
634
2
from Poems on Several Subjects (1730)
from The Thresher's Labour634
2
from Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1750)
Soliloquy, on an Empty Purse636
1
After the Small Pox637
1
Her Epitaph637
1
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
638
88
from The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl of Rivers (1744)
639
4
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)
643
8
from The Rambler
Number 2 Saturday, 24 March 1750651
3
from the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
654
6
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759)
660
50
from the Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
710
6
from The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781)
from Milton716
10
Mary Collier (fl. 1740-1760)
726
6
The Woman's Labour: (1739) An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck; In Answer to his late Poem, called The Thresher's Labour...
726
6
Jane Collier (d. 1755)
732
8
from An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art (1753)
732
8
David Hume (1711-1776)
740
7
from Essays Moral and Political (1742)
Of the Liberty of the Press740
2
from Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects (1777)
My Own Life742
5
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
747
11
Letter to Richard West (1741)
747
1
Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West] (1742)
748
1
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat (1748)
749
1
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751)
750
3
The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (1768)
753
5
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
758
4
Letter to Richard West (1740)
758
1
Letter to Hannah More (1789)
759
3
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806)
762
5
Ode to Melancholy (1739)
762
2
On the Indulgence of Fancy (1770)
765
2
William Collins (1721-1759)
767
6
from Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects (1747)
Ode to Fear767
2
Ode on the Poetical Character769
2
from A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748)
Ode to Evening771
2
Mary Leapor (1722-1746)
773
12
from Poems on Several Occasions (1748)
The Month of August773
2
An Epistle to a Lady775
2
Mira's Will777
1
from Poems on Several Occasions (1751)
An Essay on Woman778
1
Crumble-Hall779
4
Man the Monarch783
2
Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
785
4
from Jubilate Agno (c. 1758-63)
from Fragment A (c. 1758-9)785
1
from Fragment B (1759-60)786
3
Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
789
8
from Discourse 14 Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Distribution of the Prizes, 10 December 1788
789
4
[The Ironical Discourse] (1791)
Sir Joshua's Preface793
1
The Discourse794
3
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
797
17
from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757)
Part 2, Section I. Of the Passion caused by the Sublime797
1
Section 2. Terror798
1
Section 3. Obscurity798
1
Section 4. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with Regard to the Passions799
1
Section [5]. The Same subject continued799
2
Section 13. Beautiful objects small801
1
Section 14. Smoothness801
1
Section 15. Gradual Variation802
1
Section 16. Delicacy802
1
from Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event In a Letter Intended to have been sent to a Gentleman In Paris (1790)
803
11
Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
814
11
The Revolution in Low Life (1762)
814
2
The Deserted Village, A Poem (1770)
816
9
William Cowper (1731-1800)
825
7
On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage (1782)
825
1
Epitaph on an Hare (1784)
825
1
To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut on which I Dined this Day (1784)
826
1
The Negro's Complaint (1789)
827
1
On a Spaniel Called Beau Killing a Young Bird (1793)
828
1
On the Ice Islands Seen Floating in the German Ocean (1799)
828
2
James Macpherson (1736-1796)
832
2
from Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language (1762)
832
2
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
834
10
from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1781)
from Volume II, Chapter 23834
10
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
844
7
from Common Sense (1776)
844
3
from The American Crisis (1777)
847
1
from The Rights of Man: being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (1791)
848
3
James Boswell (1740-1795)
851
12
from The Life of Dr Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
851
12
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821)
863
4
from Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D. during the Last Twenty Years of his Life (1786)
863
2
from Correspondence with Samuel Johnson (1773-5)
865
2
Anna Laetitia Aiken Barbauld (1743-1825)
867
4
from Poems (1792)
The Mouse's Petition867
1
Verses Written in an Alcove868
1
from the Monthly Magazine (1797)
Washing-Day869
2
Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797)
871
10
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)
871
10
Hannah More (1745-1833)
881
5
from Sensibility (1782)
881
1
from The Slave Trade (1790)
882
4
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
886
2
from Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems (1784; revised 1800)
To Hope886
1
To Friendship886
1
The Laplander887
1
Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening887
1
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
888
4
from Poems, Supposed to have been Written at Bristol, By Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century (1777)
An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As wroten bie the gode Prieste Thomas Rowley, 1464888
4
Frances Burney (Later D'Arblay) (1752-1840)
892
10
from Journals and Letters
27-8 March 1777892
2
22 March 1812894
8
George Crabbe (1754-1832)
902
4
from The Village: A Poem in Two Books (1783)
902
4
Ann Cromartie Yearsley (1756-1806)
906
5
from Poems on Several Occasions (1785)
On Mrs. Montagu906
2
from Poems on Various Subjects (1787)
To Indifference908
1
To those who accuse the Author of Ingratitude909
2
William Blake (1757-1827)
911
5
from Songs of Innocence (1789)
Introduction911
1
The Lamb911
1
The Little Black Boy912
1
The Chimney Sweeper912
1
Holy Thursday913
1
Infant Joy914
1
from Songs of Experience (1794)
Introduction914
1
Holy Thursday914
1
The Chimney Sweeper915
1
The Tyger915
1
Ah! Sun-Flower915
1
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
916
7
from Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786)
Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet916
2
To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785918
1
Address to the Deil919
4
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1759-1797)
923
2
from A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
923
2
Index of Titles and First Lines
929
5
Index to the Introductions and Footnotes
934
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