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II.-Alexander Pope.-His Education and Mode of Life....... 5
III.—Eloisa to Abelard.—The Rape of the Lock.—The Dunciad.. ΙΟ
IV.-Pope's Descriptive Talent.-His Didactic Poems.....
V.-The Poets Prior, Gay, and Thomson....
VI.-The Beginnings of the Modern Age..
BOOK IV.-MODERN LIFE
CHAPTER FIRST
Ideas and Productions.
I.-Rise of Democracy
II. Robert Burns ...
III. Conservative rule in England.-Cowper's Poetry.
IV. The Romantic School...
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V.-Philosophy Enters into Literature.-Wordsworth.-Shelley. 87
CHAPTER SECOND
Lord Byron
1.-His Life and Character..
II. The Style of Byron's Poetry.
V. What Byron's Contemporaries Thought of Him.-His
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SECTION
CHAPTER THIRD
The Past and Present
Part I.-The Past
I. The Saxon Invasion.-The Norman Conquest.
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I.-Effects of the Saxon Invasion and the Norman Conquest... 159
II.-English Commerce and Industry..
III.-Agriculture
IV.-English Society.-Philosophy.—Religion
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V.-What Forces Have Produced the Present Civilization... 180
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IV. His Emotions.-His Pathos.-His Humor..
II. The Hypocrite.—The Positive Man.-The Proud Man..... 213
III.-Children
IV. The Ideal Man.
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The Novel (Continued)-Thackeray
Comparison between Dickens and Thackeray....
223
III.-Superiority of Thackeray as a Satirist.-Literary Snobs.... 231
IV.-Resemblance of Thackeray to Swift.....
V.-Thackeray's Misanthropy
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VI.-His Characters
Part II.-The Artist
I.-The Art of Thackeray..
251
II.-Portrait of Henry Esmond.-Historical Talent..
258
VII.-Estimate of Macaulay's Work.
VIII.-Comparison of Macaulay with French Historians.
CHAPTER FOURTH
Philosophy and History-Carlyle
Part I.-Style and Mind
I.-Carlyle's Obscurity and Crudeness.
II. The Humor of Carlyle.....
III.-Perception of the Real and the Sublime.
IV. His Passion for Actuality..
V. His Mode of Thought.
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Part II.-Vocation
I.-The Appearance and Development of Original Minds...... 328
II. Characteristics of the German Form of Mind....
III.-German Aptitude for General Ideas..
IV. Faults of the German Form of Thought.
V.-How Ideas are Reshaped..
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VI.-Growth of German Ideas in England..
Part III.-Philosophy, Morality, and Criticism
VII.-The Dangers of Enthusiasm.-Comparison of Carlyle and
VII.-Theory of Induction
VIII.-Applications of the Theory of Induction.
IX.-The Province and Method of Deduction...
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X.-Comparison of the Methods of Induction and Deduction... 388
XI.-Limits of Our Knowledge....
Part II.-Abstraction.
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I.-Agreement of this Philosophy with the English Mind..... 394
II. The Nature of Abstraction...
III.-Definitions Explain the Abstract Generating Elements of
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Things
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IV. The Basis of Proof in Syllogism is an Abstract Law...
V.-Axioms are Relations between Abstract Truths....
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III.-Wherein Tennyson is at One with Nature.
414
IV. In Memoriam.-The Princess...
419
V. The Idylls of the King......
VI.-Comparison of English and French Society..