INDEX. 



King-birds, 6 

 Kingfisher, 16 



Landor, W. S., 162. His pseudo-classi 

 cism, 165 



Langland, 188. His poetry, 191, 192. 

 Compared with Chaucer, 192 



Langue d oil, 181 



Lessing, his estimate of Pope, 315 



Lincoln, Abraham, 67, 114. His entrance 

 into office, 116. As a statesman and 

 ruler, 118 



Longfellow s subjects, 164 



Lovelace s poems, W. C. Hazlitt s edition 

 of, 246 



Mandrake, superstition concerning the, 



230 



Marie de France, her poetry, 189, 200 

 Marston and Lilly, their works, 218. 



Their poetry, 226 



Mather, Increase, his Remarkable Pro 

 vidences, 216. His editor, 219 

 Milton s Samson Agonistes, 164. His 

 aesthetic principles and literary judg 

 ments, 281 



Minnesingers, their works, 176 

 Montaigne, according to Carlyle, 100 

 Mouskes, Phillippe, his rhymes, 2O2 



Occleve s portrait of Chaucer, 170. His 



poetry, iqi 

 Offor, Mr. George, his edition of Mather s 



Remarkable Providences, 219-222 

 Opera, the, 164 

 Oratorio, the, 164 

 Orford, Earl of, 162 

 Oriole, the, 12 

 Overbury, Sir Thomas, his Characters, 



217 



Pearson, Dr., of Andover Academy, 78 



Petrarch, 187 



Pewees, 17 



Phillips, Edward, his Theatrum Poeta- 



rum, 281, 494 

 Piers Ploughman, 191-194 

 Percival, James Gates, Life and Letters 



of, 135. His works, 136 

 Poetry, early English, 188, 189 

 Pope, Alexander, 281. His place in 



poetry, 296. His works, 297-315. His 



correspondence, 311 

 Popularity and lasting fame, 89 

 Provencal literature, 175 



Quail, 15 



Quarles, his works, 218 

 Quincy, Josiah, life of, 63, 72-87 His 

 speeches, 81. His works, 84 



Rabelais, 96 



Retrospective Review, the, 214 



Riding-rhymes, 201, 203, 204 



Robin, the, 6 



Roman poetry, 176 



Rutebeuf, his poetry, 201 



Slavery in America, 127. Abolition of, 131 

 Smith, John Russell, his old authors, 214, 



216. His editors, 218. \- :- 

 Snow, 32. Footprints in, 33 

 Southwell, Robert, his poetry, 217 

 State rights, doctrine of, 129 

 Statesmanship, function of, 126 

 Swallows, 1 6 



Swift, Dean, his religion, 292 

 Swinburne, bis Tragedies, 157 



Tanhauser, old poem of, 167 



Taste, good, 293 



Tennyson s subjects, 164 



Thomson s Winter, 282 



Thoreau, Henry D., 145. His writings, 



149 



Thrush, Wilson s, 17 

 Transcendental movement, 147, 148 

 Tree sparrow, 14 

 Troubadours, poetry of the, 175 

 Trouveres, works of the, 179 

 Turnbull, W. B., his edition of South 



well s poems, 219, 220 

 Turtle-dove, 15 



Voltaire, according to Carlyle, 100. On 



English authors, 290, 291 

 Vulgarity, 50-52 



Waller, his improvement of the Maid s 



Tragedy, 289, 294 

 Ward s Life and Letters of James Gates 



Percival, 135 

 Warton, Joseph, his essay on the Genius 



and Writings of Pope, 282, 313 

 Weather, the, 3 

 Whist, 30 



White s Natural History of Selborne, i 

 Wild-geese, 6 



Winter, a good word for, 18 

 Wither, George, his poetry, 217 

 Woodcock, 16 

 Women, virtuous, 309, 310 



Yellow-birds, 9 



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