his honeysuckles and roses! No matter. De Musset, in this wretched abode of filth and misery, rose higher. From the heights of his doubt and despair, he saw the infinite, as we see the sea from a storm-beaten promontory. Religions, their glory and their decay, the human race, its pangs and its destiny, all that is sublime in the world, appeared there to him in a flash of lightning. He felt, at least this once in his life, the inner tempest of deep sensations, giant-dreams, and intense voluptuousness, the desire of which enabled him to live, the lack of which forced him to die. He was no mere dilettante; he was not content to taste and enjoy; he left his mark on human thought; he told the world what was man, love, truth, happiness. He suffered, but he imagined; he fainted, but he created. He tore from his entrails with despair the idea which he had conceived, and showed it to the eyes of all, bloody but alive. That is harder and lovelier than to go fondling and gazing upon the ideas of others. There is in the world but one work worthy of a man, the production of a truth, to which we devote ourselves, and in which we believe. The people who have listened to Tennyson are better than our aristocracy of townsfolk and bohemians; but I prefer Alfred de Musset to Tennyson. UNIT OF INDEX. ABELARD, i. 151, 153. Adhelm, i. 59, 64, 175. Alexander VI., Pope, ii. 3. Angelo, Michael, i. 173, 353; iii. Baxter, Richard, i. 257; ii. 53, 285. 25. Anglo-Saxon poetry, i. 47 seq. Ann of Cleves, i. 176. Anselm. i. 70. Anthology, the, i. 198, 229. 71. Bayly's (Lewis) Practice of Piety, ii. 60. Beattie, James, ii. 430; iii. 34. Beaumont, Francis, i. 279, 295 305; ii. 39, 43, 96. Beethoven, Lewis van, iii. 82. Bénoît de Sainte-Maure, i. 70. Ascham, Roger, i. 71, 235; ii. 2. Bentham, Jeremy, ii. 313; iii. 260. Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic] Buckingham, 2d Duke of (George poem, i. 44-48. Béranger, ii. 9; iii. 275. Bergmann's Translation of Ice- Bible, English. See Wiclif, Tyn-| Bilney, Thomas, martyrdom of, ii. Blackmore, Sir Richard, ii. 218. Boccaccio, i. 119, 125; ii. 258, 259. Villiers), ii. 136, 147, 174, 218. Buckle, Henry Thomas, iii. 149 Bulwer, iii. 80, 176. Bunyan, John, ii. 56–67, 127. — 434; iii. 274, 294. Burleigh, Lord (William Cecil), i. Burnet, Bishop, ii. 285. Burney, Francisca (Madame Boileau, ii. 138, 178, 217, 255, 277; Burton, Robert, i. 165, 237-241; iii, 5, 12, 330. Boleyn, Ann, i. 176, 264. Bonner, Edmund, ii. 31. Borgia, Lucretia, i. 172; ii. 4. Bossuet, i. 17; ii. 226; iii. 23, 294. Britons, ancient, i. 34. ii. 32, 96. Busby, Dr. Richard, ii. 249. CEDMON, hymns of, i. 53, 56; Camden, William, i. 235. Carew, Thomas, i. 228. Brontë, Charlotte (Currer Bell), iii. Campbell, Thomas, iii. 71, 107. 80, 95, 176. Browne, Sir Thomas, i. 234, 235, Carey, Mr., iii. 72. 241-244; ii. 32, 37. Browning, Mrs., iii. 95, 176. Brunanburh, Athlestan's victory 49. Carlyle, Thomas, i. 6; iii. 95, 170, 176; style and mind, 295 seq.; Carteret, John (Earl Granville), ii.] Comines, Philippe de, i. 118. 304. Castlereagh, Lord, i. 307. Catherine, St., play of, i. 70. Chapman, George, i. 308. Charles of Orleans, i. 78, 150. Chateaubriand, i. 4; ii. 338. Chatham. See Pitt. Commerce in sixteenth century, i. 162; iii. 158 seq. Congreve, William, ii. 181, 190, Court pageantries in the sixteenth Coventry, Sir John, ii. 136. Coverdale, Miles, ii. 19. Chaucer, i. 99-101, 119, 150; ii. Cowley, Abraham, i. 231, 232; ii. Chesterfield, Lord, ii. 271 seq., 434; Cowper, William, iii. 62–67. iii. 13. Chevy Chase, ballad of, i. 118. Chillingworth, William, i. 235; ii. 33, 36, 293. Crabbe, George, iii. 66, 107. Criticism and History, iii. 256 seq. Christianity, introduction of, into Cromwell, Oliver, i. 6; ii. 33, 48; Britain, i. 51, 58. Chroniclers, French, i. 77. Chronicles, Saxon, i. 62. Cibber, Colley, iii. 6, 15. ward Hyde), i. 234; ii. 134. and nature, ii. 161–166. iii. 265, 306, 336. Crowne, John, ii. 151. Curll, Edmund, iii. 16. DANIEL, Samuel, i. 235. Dante, i. 127, 150, 154; ii. 107; Darwin, Charles, i. 13. Classical authors translated, i. 170, Day, John, ii. 45. 180. Clive, Lord, iii. 260. Coleridge, Hartley, i. 268. Decker, Thomas, i. 269. De Foe. ii. 299, 393-400; iii. 164. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, iii. 67 Denham, Sir John, ii. 178-180. seq. Collier, Jeremy, ii. 218, 249, 250. Colman, George, ii. 214. VOL. III. Denmark, i. 28, 31. Dennis, John, ii. 323. Descartes, ii. 143, 226; iii. 319. 36 Domesday Book, i. 66, 72, 97. Dorset, Earl of (Charles Sack- ville), ii. 173, 174. Drake, Admiral, i. 163. Evans, Mary A. (George Eliot) iii. 80, 173, 176. FALKLAND, Lord, i. 234. Drake, Dr. Nathan, i. 163, 164, Farquhar, George, ii. 181, 182, 202, 204. 260. seq. Featley, Dr., ii. 50. Drayton, Michael, i. 194 seq., 202; Feltham, Owen, i. 235. ii. 32. Drummond, William, ii. 96. Fenn, Sir John, i. 162. Ferguson, Dr. Adam, ii. 297; iii. Fermor, Mrs. Arabella, iii. 13, 14. Dudevant, Madame (George Sand), Fichte, iii. 320. Eddas, the Scandinavian, i. 38–42; Flemish artists, i. 160, 167. Edwy and Elgiva, story of, i. 34, Ford, John, i. 279, 286 seq., 299, 35. 300; ii. 241. Eliot, George. See Evans, Mary A. Fortescue, Sir John, i. 106 seq. English Constitution, formation of the, i. 98, 99. Fox, Charles James, ii. 304, 308 seq. Fox, George, ii. 50, 55, 127. Elizabeth, Queen, i. 164-167, 234, Fox, Henry (1st Lord Holland), ii. 259. Elwin, Rev. Whitwell, iii. 3, 9 seq. 269. Fox, John, ii. 12, 16 seq. Freeman, Edward A., i. 68. Essex, Robert, Earl of, i. 259, 260, Froissart, i. 77, 96, 120, 122, 125. 262. Froude, J. A., i. 97; ii. 13 seq. |