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ENGLISH MINSTRELSY, (p. 109.) What is said of the minstrels? Where were their talents put in requisition? What of their origin? Derivation of the term? How long did they continue a distinct order? What did they sing and probably compose? What incidents in history show that they were held in high estimation? Give an account of their declining popularity? What of Sir Patrick Spens? On what founded? What is one of the most celebrated English ballads? What does Sidney say of it? On what founded? [Commit at pleasure.]

QUEEN ELIZABETH, (p. 117.) Birth and death? What of her poetry? What is one of her best pieces? Give the historical incident on which it is founded. What does Headley say of it?

TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE, (p. 118.)

What was the chief cause of the superiority of the age of Elizabeth in literature? (note.) What most important undertaking in James I.'s reign? How many versions of the Bible subsequent to Tyndale's are here named? Mention them in order. What of Coverdale's? Of Matthewe's? Of Cranmer's? Of Taverner's? Of the Geneva? The Bishop's? The Douay? What of King James's or our own present version? What were the reasons why it was undertaken? When was a conference held of the clergy of all denominations? What did the king (James I.) do? How many of those first commissioned to translate the Bible died or resigned before it was begun? How many were left? How divided? How did they proceed in their task? What cautions did they take to prevent errors? When was the result published? Under what title? What is said of the translation as a whole? What does Adam Clarke say? What does strict truth require ? What is one of the greatest defects in the translation? (note.) Give examples. Why this historical view given? Repeat Mrs. Ellis's remarks, (note.)

THOMAS SACKVILLE, (p. 121.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Why does he deserve consideration? Give an account of his tragedy? By what poem is he best known? What are its character and design? What portion did he write of it? Who finished it? What is said of Sackville's powers as a poet? Repeat some of the characters?

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY, (p. 125.)

In whose reigns flourish? What of him? Why, and how killed, and by whom? By what is he best known?

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, (p. 127.) Repeat Gray's lines. What works referred to? Best edition of his works? What does Croft say of him? (note.) What does Drake say of his removal to London? In whose reigns did he flourish? Where born? When? What is said of his early life? What prove him to have been a great student? Whom did he marry? When did he remove to London? What is his history there? His first play? Repeat the list of his plays in chronological order. When did he retire to the country? How long did he enjoy his retirement? When did he die? What is said of his children, and their descendants? How has he written his own eulogy? Repeat the lines. What does Ben Jonson say of him? What Dryden? (Repeat the extract most richly worth committing.) [Commit from the poet, at pleasure.]

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, (p. 143.)

What of their friendship and union? Birth and death of Francis Beaumont? Of John Fletcher? Of what do their plays consist? What is said of their lyrics? Commit

the extracts.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH, (p. 146.) In whose reigns did he flourish? What is said of him? Where educated? How did he spend his time in France? To what danger there exposed? What did he do in 1579? What was the result of the expedition? What was granted him in 1584? What did he do? What in 1585? Result? When was tobacco first carried into England? What in 1594? What did he publish? How treated by James? Of what accused? What is said of the trial, and result? How did he employ his prison hours? What did he do in 1615? Result? What of his death? What does Sir Egerton Brydges say? What is said of his character, and learning? How distinguished? Dates of his history? What does Hume say of it? What Tytler? What other works did he write? What does Headley say of him? What is said of his poetry by Sir Egerton Brydges? (note.) What does Spenser style him? [Commit "The Nymph's Reply," and the "Soul's Errand," and the "Sonnet upon the Faerie Queene.]

LADY ELIZABETH CAREY, (p. 154.) When flourish? What did she write?

SAMUEL DANIEL, (p. 155.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What is his chief work? What is its character? What does Headley say of him? [Commit the three last verses of Richard the Second's Soliloquy.]

GILES FLETCHER, (p. 158.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What does Wood say of him? What is his chief poem? What does Campbell say of him?

FRANCIS BACON, (p. 159.) [Commit Thomson's lines.] In whose reigns did he flourish? Whose son was he? Where educated? How there distinguished? What profession did he choose? Did he confine his studies to it? What great work did he early plan? What honor did he receive, 1603? What subsequent honors? What awaited him? What inquiry instituted? To what did he confess? What were his words? What was his punishment? When did he die? What is his first principal work? What does Stewart say of it? What the second mentioned? Of what does it treat? How does he divide human learning? What the third? What is its object? What the fourth? What rank has this work given him? Difference between Bacon and Aristotle? What does he say of the office and duty of man? What does he call the key to the temple of knowledge? What remarkable passage in his will? Best editions, and books, &c., referred to? [Commit at pleasure.]

JOHN DONNE, (p. 165.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? How popular in his life? How now? What profession did he enter? Of what do his poems consist? What of them? In what class of poets does he rank? Of what do his prose writings consist? What does Walton say of him?

MICHAEL DRAYTON, (p. 169.)

When did he flourish? What is his chief work? Give an account of it. What other works? For what now most valued? What books referred to?

BEN JONSON, (p. 172.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Give an account of his life. Of what do his works consist? How is he compared with Shakspeare? How does old Fuller compare them? What is said of his lyrical pieces? What of his prose? [Commit "Directions for writing well."]

GEORGE HERBERT, (p. 175.)

Who was he? When did he flourish? What are his chief works? How does he rank as a poet?

THOMAS CAREW, (p. 177.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What is the character of his poems ? What does Headley say of his poetry? What Campbell? But on what subjects did he employ his talents?

GERVASE MARKHAM, (p. 179.) When did he flourish? When did he commence author? What was the character of his publications? What of his popularity?

GEORGE SANDYS, (p. 180.)

In whose reign did he flourish? Where educated? When did he die? His principal work? What of his travels?

WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH, (p. 182.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What is said of him? Where did he study for some time? What is his great work called? What object had he in writing it? What does Locke say of it? What Gibbon?

FRANCIS QUARLES, (p. 186.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What profession did he study? With what noble object? To whom did he become secretary? Where did he die, and when? What does Montgomery say of him? What remarks upon his writings? What does Headley say? What are his chief poetical works? What are his emblems? [Commit at pleasure. "The World," and "Hope in God," are recommended.] What is his principal prose work? What does Headley say of it? [Commit at pleasure.]

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them? [Commit "The Client and Lawyer," and "Domestic Tutor."] What is said of him as a prose writer? Which of his prose works are now most known? What has he been styled? [Commit lines from Burns, (note.)]

RICHARD LOVELACE, (p. 205.)

When born? Where educated? What does old Anthony Wood say of him? What of his history and misfortunes? When die, and how?

THOMAS FULLER, (p. 207.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? Of what profession? What of

does Dr. Johnson say of him as a poet? What is said of his prose compared with his poetry? What is the criticism of Dr. Johnson? Of Dr. Drake? Best edition?

SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT, (p. 231.)

Dates of birth and death? Where born, and educated? What honor did he receive? Meaning of poet-laureate? Date of the office? Who have filled it successively? What office did he hold in the civil wars? Where did he go when the royal cause declined? On what expedition sent? Result? How was his life spared? On what does his fame chiefly rest? Its story in full?

his promotions? Give the outline of his MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE,

life.

What is the first of his works here mentioned? What is its character? What the second? What of it? What the third? The fourth? The fifth? What is said of his character? Of his learning? Of his memory? [Commit Aphorisms, at pleasure.] What touching appeal does he make for the African? What does Gibbon say of the obligations of a scholar to his teacher? (note.) What are Burton's six reasons for marriage? (note.) What duty does Bacon enjoin upon every man? (note.)

ROBERT HERRICK, (p. 213.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What is said of him as a poet? What profession did he enter? What does the Retrospective Review say of him as a poet? [Commit "To Daffodils," "To Primroses," "To Blossoms," &c.]

CATHERINE PHILIPS, (p. 216.) Dates of birth and death? Whose daughter? Under what name did she write? How esteemed by her contemporaries?

JEREMY TAYLOR, (p. 218.) What is said of him? In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? To whom did he become chaplain? What happened to him 1644? Where did he establish a school? What does he say of his retirement? What affliction did he meet with? What honor did he receive at the Restoration? When did he die? What is said of his writings? What is his greatest work? What is its object? How has it been described? What is his most popular work? What does an eminent critic say of him? [Commit "On Prayer," "On Content," and Thomson's lines, in note.]

ABRAHAM COWLEY, (p. 225.) What is said of him? In whose reigns did he flourish? For what was he distinguished in college? What early gave him a taste for poetry? To what cause did he attach himself? What is said of him at the Restoration? How was he esteemed at his death? How are his poetical works divided? What

(p. 236.)

When did she flourish? What of her early tastes? Where did she go? To whom mar

ried? What of her literary labors?

JOHN MILTON, (p. 239.)

Repeat the lines of Thomson, Gray, and Wordsworth. How does Milton rank among English poets? In whose reigns did he flourish? When, and where born? Where did he imbibe his principles of liberty? In what was he early instructed? What influence had it on him? Where educated? Where did he go after leaving the university? For how long? How employed? What remark did he make? Which of his minor poems did he write while in the university? Which at his father's? When did he go to Italy? How did he rank? Whom did he visit? What did he do on his return home? In what controversy engage? How did he sustain himself in it? Whom did he marry? What is said of the connection? To what office appointed in 1649? For how long had his eyesight been failing him? What cause? When, and in what labor did it entirely fail? What did he say of it? (note 3, p. 260.) What is said of him at the Restoration? To what did he devote himself? When was the Paradise Lost published? What did he receive for it? When Paradise Regained? What is his first poetical work, and what is its subject? What the second? Third? Fourth? Fifth? Sixth? Seventh? Eighth? Ninth? Tenth? Best edition of his works? Books referred to? What does Brydges say of Johnson's life of Milton? What of Addison's Essays on Paradise Lost? (note.) When did he compose his ode on Christ's Nativity? What does Brydges say of it? What is the subject of Lycidas? What do Addison and Warton say of it? What is the fable of Comus? (note.) [Commit "Invocation to Light," "Rome," "Athens," "Evening in Paradise," and "Hymn on the Nativity."] What is said of the prose works of Milton? Of what subjects do they treat? To what owing? What does Burnet say of them? What Brydges? What did Milton publish in 1642? What remarkable sentiment in it? What character does Dr. Symmons give him? What Sir Egerton Brydges? What rank is awarded to him on the whole?

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?

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.)

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.)

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."]

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.)

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 second? When the third? When did he die? In what cir

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 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 Pseudodoxia Epidemica? What of Hydriotaphia? How does Dr. Johnson describe his style? Repeat a portion of the Soliloquies of the Philosopher and Young Lady.

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.

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 Burnet say of him?

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 Burnet say of his conduct in Parliament? What are his characteristics as a poet? What does Hallam say? [Commit "The Rose."]

JOHN BUNYAN, (p. 317.)

Repeat the lines of Cowper. In whose reigns did Bunyan flourish? What of his parents? Of his education? What does he 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? Repeat the lines of Cowper. What did he do when released from prison? What did Dr Owen say of his preaching? What were some of his works, and their subjects? What his

great work? What its subject? What does Southey say of it? What great poets have united to extol it? Repeat Macaulay's remarks.

arbitrary conduct of Charles II. affect him? To what post did the Prince of Orange invite 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 followed? What is said of Bentley? Who were the parties to this controversy? Who re-used the weapon of ridicule? In what work? What is said of this controversy? (note.) What does Blair say of Temple's style?

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 warded? How? How have the "Friends" been distinguished as a sect? What of practical religion? (note.) To what sect did Barclay 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.)

JOHN DRYDEN, (p. 346.)

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 occurred 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 non-compliment to Dryden recorded by Malone? (note.) What books referred to?

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 conformist? 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?

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

JOHN LOCKE, (p. 356.)

What was he? In whose reigns did he flourish? What profession did he first choose? Why leave it? What official station 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 mentioned? 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 character?

ROBERT SOUTH, (p. 362.)

Dates of birth and death? For what celebrated? 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?

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

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