CYCLOPÆDIA

ΟΥ

ENGLISH LITERATURE

A HISTORY, CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL OF BRITISH
AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, WITH SPECIMENS

OF THEIR WRITINGS,

NEW YORK :
AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE,

64 ROADWAY.

1881.

TABLE OF CONTENTS-VOL. VII.

8

TRAVELLERS.

PAGE.

PAGE,

Lord Macartney (1737-1506).

1 ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND SERIAL WORKS.

Sir George Staunton (1737-1801)..

Encyclopeedia Britannica - Cham-

James Bruce (1730-1794).

bere's Encyclopædia-Lardner's

Supposed Source of the Nile.

Cyclopædia-Constable's

M.S-

Muugo Park (1771-1805)..

cellany-Family Library, &c... 33

Compassionate African Matron.

The Traveller's Pious Fortitude.

Capt. Hogh Clapperton (1788-1827).

Richard Lander (1804-1834).

8

EIGHTH PERIOD.

Rev. John Campbell, Missionary (1766-
1840)

1830-1876: REIGNS OF GEORGE IV.,

John L. Burckhardt (1784-1817). 9 WILLIAM IV., AND QUEEN VIC-

John B. Belzoni (1788 1823).

9 TORIA.

The Ruins at Thebes.

10

POETS.

Opening a Tomb at Thebes.. 10 Hartley, Derwent, and Sara Cole-

Dr. E. D. Clarke (1769–1822)..

11

ridge...

39

Description of the Pyramids.. 12 Sonnet by Hartley Coleridge.

40

Joseph Forsyth (1763-1815).

14 'To Shakspeare..

40

The Italian Vintage..

15 Address to Certain Gold Fishes..... 41

The Coliseum..

15 History and Biography..

Other Classic Travellers: Eustace, W. The Opposing Armies on Marston
Stewart Rose, Keppel Craven,

Moor....

41
H. Matthews. Lady Morgan, W. Discernment of Characier.

42

Brockedon, &c...

16 J. A. Heraud (born in 1799)-W. B.

Funeral Ceremony at Rome. 16

Scott..

42

Statue of the Venus de' Medici. 17 Mrs. Southey (1787-1854)

43

A Morning in Venice....

17 Mariner's Hymn.

Description of Pompeii..

18

Once upon a Time..

44

Arctic Discovery: Ross, Parry, Frank- The Pauper's Death-bed...

45

lin. Beechey, &c...

19 Jobm Edunund Reade.

45

Description of the Fsquimaux 20 Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-

Eastern Travellers : W. Rae Wilson-

1839)..

46

Claudius J. Rich-J. S. Buck- Quince.

44

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PAGE.

PAOB.

Thomas K. Hervey (1804-1859).

60 Conclusion of Babe Christabel'... 99

The Convict Ship....

60 David Gray (1838-1861)

.100

Alaric A. Waits (1799-1864)-George A Winter Scene.....

....101

Darley-Sir Aubre y de Vere, &c 61 AD Automal Day.

..103

Archbishop Trench (born in 1807).... 62 Three Sonnets..

..102

Evening Hymn...
62 Thomar Rags (born in 1808).

..103

Some Murmur when their Sky is The Earth full of Love.

.104

Clenr...

62 Thomas Cooper....

.:04

Thonias Aird (1802-16:6).

63 A Christmas Scene.

. 104

The Devil's Dream on Mount Aks- Lord Job Mannere.Hon. Mr.

berk

63

Smythe...

.:03

James Hidderwick.

63 Charles Mackay (born in 1814). ..105

Middle Age..

Apologne from · Egeria

.:06

Lord Mucaulay (1800-1859).

Love New and Old-Tubal Caip.... 107

Lines written in Angust 1817. 69 Philip Janes Bailey (boru in 1816)....108

Epitaph on a Jacobite.

70 Extracts from Festus'.

109

Extracts from · Horatias' in “Lays Pichani Henry Horne (born in 1903)..110

of Ancient Rome

71 The Progress of Mankind.- From

Ivry.

72

• Orion?.

111

W. E. Aytoun (1813-1565)--Theodore Willi m Ahogham (horn in 1828).....111

Martin (born in 1816)..

To the Nightingales...

112

The Burial March of Duudee.

Alfred Tennyson (born in 1810). ...112

Sonnet to Britain...

76 Extracts from Lockeley Hal'. 113

Frances Brown (born in 1816)

77 From The Talking Oik.

115

The Last Friends....

God va....

.116

Lord Honghion (born in 1:09)

77 The Lotos-eaters.

117

St Mark's at Venice.

78 Song. “ The Splendour Falle'. ....113

The Men of Did...

Jo Memorian. IX.. XXII. (VI...119

From - The Long Ago

79 The Funeral of the Great Duke.....121

Fitzgroene Halleck (1790-1867). 79 Extracts from · Maud'.

..121

Marco Bozzaris...

811 From The Passing of Arthur'.....122

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

81 Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in

The Raren....

2

1861)...

123

William Cullen Bryant (born in 1794) 84 To Flash, my Dog

....124

Lines written at the Age of Thirtecu 4 Extracts from A Vision of Potte!.126

From Thapatopsis?

85 The Cry of the Children.

127

The Wind-flower..

86 Sonnet....

.128

The Disiuterred Warrior

86 An English Landscape..

J29

An Indian at tbc Buryiug-place of liis Cowper's Grave

130

Father

87 Robert Browning (born in 1572).. 131

Richard H. Dua-N. P. Willis (1806-

Picture of the Giape-harvest. 134

1867)-Oliver Wendell Holmes The Pied Piper of Hamelin...... 1:35

(for in 1809)..

87 A Parting Scene...

The Baccancer Island, by Dano... 89 From My Last Duchess

.141

Thirty-Fivr, by Willis

89 Coventry Patmore (born in 1823)......142

The American Spring. by Holines. 90 The Joyful Wisdom....

142

Henry V. Longfellow (horn in 18.7) 91 Comise to the Young Inshand.....143

Excelsios- A Psalın of Life.

99 Edward Robert, Lord Lytton (born in

The Ladder of St. Angustine..

93

131.

143

God's Acre....

93 The Chess Board --(hangis

144

Antuinn in America.

94 Rev. II. F. Lyte (ried in 1847).. .. 14+

A Rainy Day.

The Sailor's Grave

145

Chart Swin (1813-1874).

Abide with Me till Eventide.

The Death of the larrior King. 95 Charles Kent (born in 1823).

145

Syrine y Debel (1974-7574).

Love's Calendar...
The Italian Brothers.
96 Mis Sigourney (1791-1865).

..1.16

The Ruins of Ancient Rome.

The Early Blne-Bird..

146

Alexander Smith (1830-1867)

97 Midnight Thouhts at Sea.

.146

Antunin ['not and Chi dhood.... 98 John G. Whittier (born iv 80S),.....147

Gerald Messey (born in 1825).

...145

148
....143

..1.3

..151

....153

PAGE.

SCOTTISH POETS. PAGE.

Barbara Fritchie,

127

William Thom (1789-184 )..

.177

Arthur Hugh Clough ( 819-1861).

'l be Mitherless Bairn..

173

Autumn in the Highlands...

David Vedder (1790–1€3i).

.173

Morning in the City..

149

The Temple of Naturo.

...1.8

In a Gondola on the Grand Canal,

Gecrgo Outram (1805-1856).

...1:3

V. uice

. 160
The Annuity.

...179
William Wetmore Story (born in 1819)150 | A Maclagan-James Ballantine-A.
Suppos d Appearance of the Savi-

Parl-J. Crawford-II. Scott

our on Earth,

Riddell-F. Bennoch-W. Glen

James Russell Lowell (born in 1819)...161

-J. Smith,

.180

Op Popular Applause..

.152

From The Widow,' by A. Maclag-

Hints to Statesmen.

.159

an.

181

What Mr. Robinson Thiuks. 103

Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps its Aia

Invocation to Peace...

.163

The Courtin'.

Drap o' Dew, by J. Ballantinc...181

When the Glen all is Still, y H.S.
Matthew Arnold (born in 1822).

..105
Ricdell..

182

Mycerinus...

..100

Children Aslecp..

Florence Nightingale, by F. Ben-
..150
noch.

189

Lines written in Kensington Gar-

Ww's Me for Prince Charlie, by W.

dens..

.157

Glen

.182

Dante G. Rossetti-Christina G. Ros-

The Weo Pair o' Shoon, by J.
setti..

....153
Sunith..

.183

From The Blessed Damozel .....103

The Sea Limits.

..155

DRAMATISTS.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (born in Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854)...184

1837)

..159

Description of Ion.

185

Extract from · Atalanta in Calydon'160

Extract from Ion'.

..156

Chorus..

.161

Sir Henry Taylor (born 1800). ..159

Partiug of Bothwell and Queen The Death of Launoy.

190

Mary

161

The Lay of Elena..

..191

Mary leaveg Scotland....

.163 On the Ethics of Politics.

.192

Robert Buchanan (born in 1841).. ..161 Of Wisdom...

The Curse of Glencoe ......

.192

161 Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857)

193

Youth

..165

Fancy Fair..

..195

The Seasons in the Highlands.. ..16)

William Morris (born in 1834).

Companies for Leasing Mount Vesu-

...167

vius...

.195

July

..103

Time's Changes-Retired from Busi-

Song from The Love of Alcestis'..168

ness...

.196

Francis Bret Harte (born in 1831).....163 Winter in London

.196

A Sanitary Message.....

.169 The Emigrant Ship..

197

Eliza Cook-Mrs. Parkes Belloe-Miss Puns and S: yings of Jerrold.. ..193

Home-Miss Procter-Isa Graig- Gilbert Abbot à Becket--Mark Lemon

Knox -- Jeans Iugelow — Mrs.

-Shirley Brooks-Tom Taylor.193

Webster..

....109

Portrait of Douglas Jerrold, by

Old Songs, by Miss Cook.

........169

B:ooks...

Robin Hood, by Miss Parkes.......171 Westlaud Mårslou (born in 1920).....201

A Doubting Heart, by Miss Procter.171

Going Out and Coming In, by Isa

NOVELISTS.

Craig-Knox..

.172 James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1861)... 201

When Spariows Build, by Miss In- A Virrin Willern 8s.

..:02

gelow

.173 De:th of Long Tom Coffin..

...203

The Gift, by Mrs. Angurta Webster.17 Richard Harris Barhanı (1759-1843)...204

Lord Neuves (born in 1800)-Fred. Copt. Freder ck Marryat (1192-1848). 204

Locker-A. Dobson..

173

A Prudent Sea Captain...

207

How to Make a Novel.

.174 Captains Glasscock and Chamier-Mr.

Vanity Fair...

.174

Howari - Michael Scott (1789-

Poet Translators--Bowring, Blackie,

1935)-James Happay(1827-1873). 207

&c.

175 Nights at Sea...

.208

The Theology of Homer

.1.6 Detached Similey..

200

..199