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EDWARD HYDE, (p. 269.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? With what times connected? Where educated? What profession did he study? What afterwards did he turn his attention to? What side did he take? Whom had he for an opponent? Where did Hyde accompany Charles? His situation there? How afterwards rewarded? What influence had he? What followed? When, and where die? His principal literary work? What is said of Charles I.? (note.) What does the Edinburgh Review say of Clarendon's great work?

cumstances? What is said of Hudibras?
By what suggested? What was its object?
What is said of his poem? [Commit first
paragraph of Macaulay's remarks on the
Puritans, note.] What is said of Butler's
prose?

SIR MATTHEW HALE, (p. 274.) What is said of Hale? In whose reign did he flourish? What profession did he enter? What course did he take in the civil war? Was it right? Who first appointed him judge? Who next? How did he discharge his duties? What honor, 1671? What exception to his judicial reputation? What is said of it? Who were with him in opinion? (see note.) What did he write? What is best known? [Commit Lord Erskine's Eulogy, and Cowper's lines.]

ISAAC BARROW, (p. 278.)

SIR THOMAS BROWNE, (p. 298.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What profession did he follow? What honors receive? What are his principal productions? What is said of the Religio Medici? What of his Pseudodoria Epidemica? What of Hydriotaphia? How does Dr. Johnson describe his style? Repeat a portion of the Soliloquies of the Philosopher and Young Lady.

What is said of him? In whose reign did he flourish? What profession did he first study? Why did he change it, and for what? To what professorship elected in 1660? In 1662? In 1663? To whom did he resign the last? Why? What honor, 1672? When did he die? What of his mind and character? What did Charles II. call him? What of his sermons? What noble moral sentiment recorded? Repeat the lines of Milton, (note, p. 280.) What does Bacon say of the advantages of knowledge? (note, p. 282.)

IZAAK WALTON, (p. 302.)

What is he called? In whose reigns did he flourish? At what age did he die? For what celebrated? Whose lives has he writ ten? Who especially valued them? By what is Walton most known? What is the character of the work? In what form? Who are the parties introduced? Give an account of Falconry, (note.) Repeat the exhortation to contentment.

ANDREW MARVELL, (p. 282.) Why does Marvell deserve especially to be remembered? What is said of his character? In what office did he assist Milton? What of their relations? How honored in 1660? How did he discharge his duties? How vote? Give the anecdote of the attempt to bribe him. To whom did he become obnoxious? How threatened? How affected by it? What is said of his prose writings? What of the friendship between him and Milton? How did he defend Milton? What of his poetry? [Commit "The Emigrants."]

ROBERT LEIGHTON, (p. 309.)

Dates of birth and death? Where born, and educated? What situation did he hold in Scotland? How fill it? What does Bur net say of him?

OWEN FELLTHAM, (p. 288.) When did he flourish? What of his history? What is his chief work? What its character? Of its sentiments?

SAMUEL BUTLER, (p. 292.)

ANNE KILLEGREW, (p. 312.) When did she flourish? Whose daughter? What of her character? What English poet has written in her praise?

EDMUND WALLER, (p. 314.) What is said of him as a man and a poet? In whose reigns did he flourish? What is said of him in political life? How punished? Whither did he go after his release ? What of him at the Restoration? What does Bur net say of his conduct in Parliament? What are his characteristics as a poet? What does Hallam say? [Commit "The Rose."]

Of what is Butler the author? In whose reigns did he flourish? How was his early life employed? When did he first conceive the idea of his poem? When was the first part published? When the se sond? When the third? When did he die? In what cir

JOHN BUNYAN, (p. 317.)

Repeat the lines of Cowper. In hose reigns did Bunyan flourish? Wha' of his parents? Of his education? What does h say of his early marriage? What influence on him? What incident made a deep impression on his mind? When did he join the Baptist church? What office did he fill! What awaited him? What was done to him! How long confined in Bedford jail? What were the fruits of this imprisonment? Give his own account of his incarceration. What books had he with him in prison? Repea the lines of Cowper. What did he do when released from prison? What did Dr Ower say of his preaching? What were some of his works, and their subjects? What hi

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arbitrary conduct of Charles II. affect him! To what post did the Prince of Orange invita him? When did he die? What of his works? Name them. To what did his Essay on ancient and modern learning give rise? What position did he maintain? What work did he adduce to support it? Who was Phalaris? (note.) Who came out against him? What then appeared? What fol lowed? What is said of Bentley? Who were the parties to this controversy! Who

ROBERT BARCLAY, (p. 324.) Where born, and when? Whither did he go after leaving school? What is said of his position there? What offers did his uncle make, and on what conditions? Why did he decline them? Was his filial duty reased the weapon of ridicule! In what work? warded? How? How have the "Friends" What is said of this controversy? (note.) been distinguished as a sect? What of prac- What does Blair say of Temple's style? tical religion? (note.) To what sect did Bar clay become a convert? What is his great work? What is said of it? What else did he write? How were the latter years of his life spent? What is said of his character? What of his dedication to Charles II.?

ROBERT BOYLE, (p. 328.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? Give the anecdote relative to his study of mathematics. What places on the continent did he visit? What change in his circumstances? How did he devote the rest of his life? Of what was he one of the first members? How did he employ his time? How like Newton? What of his writings? Name some of them. What has he been styled? What does Mr. Hughes say of him? What Burnet?

RICHARD BAXTER, (p. 332. What is said of Baxter? Meaning of nonconformist? When did he flourish? What of his early education? Where did he preach? What side did he take in the civil war? For what arrested? By whom? What of the character of Jeffries? Result of his trial? What of him as a writer? What are his two chief works? What of them? Why? What work did he leave behind him? With whom was it a favorite? What does Dr. Barrow say of him? (note.)

JOHN TILLOTSON, (p. 336.)

In whose reign did Tillotson flourish? How educated? What course did he take at the Restoration? How rewarded for it at first? How afterwards? What are his principal compositions? What is said of them? What does Hallam say? (note.) What Blair?

HENRY VAUGHAN, (p. 339.)

How styled? Dates of birth and death? Where born? For what profession destined? What his first publication? Why so called? What of his poetry? What of his prose?

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JOHN DRYDEN, (p. 346 M Repeat Pope's lines. Where born! In whose reigns did he flourish? What first poem that attracted attention? How did he change sides? To what did he betake himself? How did he write? What ecurred in 1668? Who were his principal enemies? In what did they ridicule him? In what did he reply? What course did he take after the accession of James? What did he write in defence of the Papal church? What of him in 1689? Consequence? How did he devote the latter part of his life! What is his best piece? When did he die? What is said of his character? What of him as a poet? What does a critic in the Retrospective Review say? What Campbell! What lesson to be learned from Dryden's life and writings? What is said of his prose? What does Drake say? What Johnson of his account of Shakspeare? What compliment to Dryden recorded by Malone! (note.) What books referred to?

JOHN LOCKE, (p. 356.;

What was he? In whose reigns did he flourish? What profession did he first choose? Why leave it? What official sta tion did he hold? With whom reside! What constitution did he draw up? What were its provisions? (note.) Where did he go for his health? With whose fortune was his own united? What occurred in 1688! Where did he pass the rest of his life? What is the great work of Locke? What are its principles? What his second work men tioned? Object? What third? Fourth? What position does it maintain? Fifth! Sixth? Seventh? Eighth? What other useful book? What does Drake say of his style? What is said of his personal cha racter?

ROBERT SOUTH, (p. 362.)

Dates of birth and death? For what cele brated? What side did he take in church and state? What does he maintain in one of his sermons? What proves him wrong? What is said of him as a writer?

SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, (p. 342.) What was he? Where educated? Where did he travel? How live during the "Commonwealth"? What honor did Charles II. bestow upon him? What political measure did he arrange and complete? How did the flourish?

THOMAS PARNELL, (p. 366.) Where born? In whose reigns did he What profession did he choose!

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What party in politics? What success did he meet with? What situation obtain? When die? What does Campbell say of his poetry? What is the poem by which he is best known? What is said of it? What is the story taken from? Give the substance of it? (note.) [Commit "Hymn to Contentment."]

WILLIAM PENN, (p. 369.)

ESTHER VANHOMRIGH, (p. 399.)
By what name most known? How treated
by Swift? When did she die?

What is said of him? How renowned? Whose son? In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What early change in religious views? How treated by his father? When did he begin to preach? How treated? What is his most popular work? For what was he tried? What is the most important period of his life? Where was territory granted to him? Why? When did he sail from England? In what ship? When arrive at Newcastle? Where then did he go with the colonists? What were his reasons for coming to America? When did he return to England? What did he there accomplish? When did he re-embark for this country? How long did he remain? Why 80 short a time? When did he die? Of what works was he the author?

JOSEPH ADDISON, (p. 374.)

LADY RACHEL RUSSELL, (p. 400.) Dates of birth and death? Whose wife? What of the fate of her husband? How did she aid him? What does Burnet say of her letters, and of her conjugal devotion?

GEORGE SEWELL, (p. 401.)

What of his life? What profession did he follow? His chief productions? His best piece? Repeat it.

SIR RICHARD STEELE, (p. 402.)

Where born?

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When? Where educated? What profession did he first choose? What were the consequences? In what department of literature did he first exert himself? What periodical paper did he project? When published? What appellation does he de serve? When did he begin the Spectator with Addison? When the Guardian? What title did he receive? To what post of honor elected? Why continue so poor? What was one of his projects? When did he die? What is said of his style? How does he compare with Addison? How with Tillotson, Temple, and Dryden? [Commit Shakspeare's Description of Dover Cliff.]

DANIEL DE FOE, (p. 410.)

How known? When born, and where? What of his education? In what did he first engage? Why leave it? What did he first publish? What periodical paper? When? What did it resemble? Upon what new field did he afterwards enter? What is said of his best known work? What else did he publish? What curious title of one work? When did he die? What is said of him as a writer? What peculiar power had he? What does Dr. Johnson say of Robinson Crusoe?

What is said of Addison? Where educated? In whose reigns did he flourish? How did he first attract notice? What pension did he obtain? Where did he travel? What compose there? What did he publish on his return? What deprived him of his pension? What poem did he write? What does Warton call it? (note.) What ballad superior on the same subject? When did the Tatler first appear? How did Addison recognise Steele's hand in it? What paper did Addison project? What is said of it? When was it commenced? (note.) What is its plan? Who were the contributors? How are Addison's papers designated? What followed the Spectator? When commenced? Whom did Addison marry? What is said of her, and of the connection? What is said of Addison's death? Relate the account of it? When did he die? What does Melmoth say of him as a writer? What Young? What Johnson? What are the four departments in literature in which he excels? What is said of him as a critic? What critical papers are mentioned? What of his humor? What papers most distinguished for this quality? What of the moral tendency of his writings? [Commit what he says of Shakspeare. Also the "Hymn" on p. 395.] What works and criticisms referred to?

ANNE FINCH, (p. 396.)
When did she flourish? Whose daughter?
What does Wordsworth say of her poetry?

MATTHEW PRIOR, (p. 398.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? Where go, and in what capacity? When did he die? What does Campbell say of him?

JOHN GAY, (p. 414.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What was his early employment? Why abandoned? What his first work? Of what benefit was it to him? What post did he obtain in 1712? What work did he soon after publish? What does Drake say of it? What other department in literature did he enter What successful drama did he write? By what is he now known? What is said of his Fables? What of his character? What are the lines of Pope? What prose did he write?

BARTON BOOTH, (p. 418.)

Dates of birth and death? What is said of him? Why deserve a notice here?

JOIN ARBUTHNOT, (p. 419.) Whose son was he? Where educated

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What did he first publish? How considered? | of him as a writer? What does Dr. Blair
To whom introduced? To what club was he
attached? When did he die? What of his
character? What did Pope say of him?
What Swift? What is his best poem?

ELIZABETH ROWE, (p. 422.)

In whose reigns flourish? Whose daughter? What did she first publish? What her best prose compositions? What of her poetry?

HENRY GROVE, (p. 424.)

What was he? When born? What is said of him in his youth? What profession did he enter? What post did he afterwards Occupy? What work publish? Its design? His next writings? What other treatises? What is said of his religious opinions? When did he die?

THOMAS TICKELI, (p. 427.)

When, and where born? Where educated? Who was his most intimate friend? How did Addison feel towards him? What poem did he publish? What is said of it? What office did he fill? What charge did Addison leave with him? What does Drake say of his Elegy? What other pieces? When did he die?

RICHARD BENTLEY, (p. 429.) What is said of him? Where educated? To what appointed in 1692? In what controversy did he engage? Who were against him? How did he acquit himself in it? What is said of most of his works? What was his reputation as a scholar? In what did he fail? Give the example quoted. When did he die?

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, (p. 431.) In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? Where did he settle? How did he employ his time? Character? What does Shenstone say of him? When did he di? By what is he best known? What is Baid of it? What else did he write? [Commit lines on Addison.]

say? What is one of the most amusing of his papers? Give an account of it. What effect had it? Who helped him on with the joke? Who wrote the most interesting a count? What is said of Swift's poetry?

THOMAS YALDEN, (p. 446.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What profession did he enter! What is said of his poetry! Of his prose? What paper of great humor did he write!

ALEXANDER POPE, (p. 450.)

When born? What of his early life! What of his poetic taste? What instance of precocity? When did he write his pastorals! When his Messiah? What is the Messiah? On what founded? Who was Pollio? (note.) When did he finish his Essay on Criticism? What did he publish in 1712? What kind of a poem is it? What else did he publish successively? For what, at the age of twenty-five, did he issue proposals? What of its success? What followed such fame! How did he retaliate? Was it wise thus to do? What did he publish in 1733? How assailed? Who bas vindicated it? What did he project? Did he finish it? What is his rank as a poet? What of his person? (note.) Lord Bacon's remarks? How does Warton rank Pope? What does Roscoe say of the Messiah? (note.) What does Johnson say of the Essay on Criticism! What Warton! Subject of the Essay on Man? In what does Pope most show his inventive powers? Subject of the Rape of the Lock? What does Warton say of it? (note.) What of Pope's prose works? [Commit at pleasure.]

ROBERT BLAIR, (p. 465.)

Where born? What profession did he enter? What is his chief work? What does Campbell say of it? [Commit at pleasure.]

JAMES THOMSON, (p. 468.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What incident turned his atten. tion to poetry? When did he publish his "Winter"? When the other Seasons? Wha is his noblest effort? What does Campbell say of it? When did he die? What rank docs he hold as a descriptive poet? What does Campbell remark? What is his great est charm? [Commit the stanzas from "Castle of Indolence"-the "Various Suffer

JONATHAN SWIFT, (p. 433.) Where born? Where educated? With whom did he early reside? What did he here write? Who invited him to Ireland? Where did he settle there? Relate the aneo-ings in Winter"-and "Hymn on the Sea dote, (note.) What did he publish in 1704? sons."] What is its design? What its character? How rewarded in 1713? What destroyed his hopes of further preferment? How, for many years, did he employ himself? What inade him very popular with the Irish in 1724? Give the account in full? What was the result? What did he publish in 17261 What is said of it? Its design? What were some of his other publications? Give the sccount of the end of his life. What is said

ISAAC WATTS, (p. 479.)

When born, and where? Where edu cated? Where afterwards reside as private tutor? To what situation was he called in 1698? How afflicted? What valued friend received him to his house? How long did he remain there? What does Dr. Johnson say of this? (note.) When did he die? How

to be considered in his literary character? What is said of him as a poet? What of his Psalms and Hymns? What as a philosopher? What were his works in this department? What does Dr. Johnson say of his "Improvement of the Mind"? What of him as a theologian? What did he remark of the Bible? (note.) What does Dr. Johnson say of him as a poet? (note.) What is Dr. Drake's criticism? [Commit "Summer Evening"-"The Rose""Looking Upward""Seeking a Divine Calm," &c.]

CONYERS MIDDLETON, (p. 489.)

For what celebrated? When born? What was his first publication? What does Dr. Monk say of it? What did he publish in 1729? Its object? What is his great work? When did it appear? What might it be called? What of its style? What did he publish in 1749? What of it? When did he die? [Commit "Character of Pompey."]

LORD BOLINGBROKE, (p. 494.)

GEORGE BERKELEY, (p. 510.)

Where and when born? Where educated? What did he publish in 1709? Its object? What in the year following? What does it attempt to prove? What influence had it in making him known? Where did he travel? What time spend there? What did he pub lish on his return? Give an account of the South Sea scheme, (note.) What object had he long had in view? What did he do to effect it? Repeat the verses in connection with it. When did he sail from England? Where reside? What was the result of his plan? What publish in 1732? What in 1744? What is said of it? Where did he reside the latter part of his life? Give the account of his death. What of his cha racter? What is the line of Pope applied to him?

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What political side did he espouse? Whither did he go? What was done respecting him in his absence? In whose cause did he enlist? What occurred in 1723? What in 1735? What did he there write? When did he return to England? When die? To whom did he bequeath his manuscripts? What did they contain? What was Johnson's remark? Give the account and cause of Bolingbroke's maligning Pope, (note.) What is said of his character? Of his style?

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PHILIP DODDRIDGE, (p. 499.) What is said of his influence? Where and when born? What of his education? Where did he settle as a clergyman and schoolmaster? For how long? What is said of his labors? Where did he go for his health? With what result? What of his writings? What is his best known work? What is said of it? With what other great and good men does he rank? What are some of his other works? What popular biographical work did he write? Who was Colonel Gardiner? Give the account of his conversion, (note.) Is the military compatible with the Christian profession? What is Doddridge's most elaborate work? For what else are we indebted to Doddridge? Repeat the epigram, and his hymns.

JOSEPH BUTLER, (p. 504.)

SAMUEL RICHARDSON, (p. 525.)

What is said of him? When did he flourish? What of his boyhood? At what trade was he put? How did he rise? What situation did he obtain? What did he first publish? What was his first novel? How received? What his second? What is said of it? What does Dr. Drake say? What was his third? Its object? When did he die? What of his character? Why not now much read? What work published in 1755?

THOMAS SITERLOCK, (p. 529.)

Where born? In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? In what did he distinguish himself? What promotions did he receive? When did he die? What is said of his sermons? His style?

In whose reigns did he flourish? What profession did he design to enter? What did he early publish? What change in his views? What appointment did he receive in 1718? What did he publish in 1736? What is its object? What of its execution? What is said of the work? When did he die? What is said of his character? Of his benevolence? What was his renfark when made Bishop of Durham? [Repeat Bishop Wilson's admirable remarks on the "Analogy."]|

LADY MONTAGU, (p. 532.)

Whose daughter? What of her character and education? To whom married? Where reside? Whose society enjoy? To what place did she go in 1716? When return? Where settle? Result? What did she introduce into England? How long reside there after her return? Where go in 1739? Where and when did she die? To what chiefly does she owe her ame? What is said of her letters?

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