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PREFACE
CONTENTS
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
INTRODUCTION.
Of the Latin as the source of the Languages of Latin
Europe
The English Language, divided into five epochs
THE MIDDLE AGES.
Laws and Buildings
Dress-Entertainments and Diversions
Repasts
Page
ix
11
17
Manners
Manners continued.-Vigour and End of the Barbarous
Ages
39.
PART THE FIRST.
FIRST AND SECOND EPOCHS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Literature at the time of the Anglo-Saxons, the Danes,
and during the Middle Ages.-Of the Anglo-Saxons
under William the Conqueror-The Britons-Tacitus
-Erse Poems
Anglo-Saxons and Danes
47
THIRD AND FOURTH EPOCHS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Anglo-Norman and Norman-French epochs from William
the Conqueror, and from Henry II. to Henry VIII.—
Anglo-Norman Trouvères
The Anglo-Norman Trouvères continued.-Terrestrial
Paradise-Descent to Hell
Miracles-Mysteries-Satires
65
73
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79
Change in Literature-Struggle between the two Lan-
guages
Return, by law, to the National Language
Chaucer-Gower-Barbour
Sentiment of political Liberty-Why different amongst
English and French writers of the 16th and 17th
centuries-Place held by the People in the ancient
Institutions of the two Monarchies
James I. King of Scotland
Worcester-Rivers
Popular Ballads and Songs
Dumbard
Douglas
- 103
Portrait of Luther by Maimbourg, Bossuet, and Voltaire 179
Opinion of Luther
The Reformation
185
- 191
My former Mis-judgment of Shakspeare-Mistaken Ad-
mirers of the Poet
235
Voltaire's Opinion of Shakspeare-Opinion of English
Critics
239
244
The faults of Shakspeare are the faults of his Age.-The
Language of Shakspeare and Dante
Mechanism of the English Stage in the sixteenth century 249
Character of Shakspeare's Genius
Shakspeare's Style of Writing has corrupted Taste-
Writing is an art
Striking Beauties of Shakspeare
Shakspeare's Female Characters
Classic Models
The Era of Shakspeare
Poets and other Writers contemporary with Shakspeare
The Life of Shakspeare
Shakspeare one of the five or six Great Master Spirits
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254
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- 266
- 273