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Coppee, Henry

"English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction"


The Sceptical Age--David Hume--History of England--Metaphysics--Essay
on Miracles--Robertson--Histories--Gibbon--The Decline and Fall

CHAPTER XXX.
SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS TIMES.
Early Life and Career--London--Rambler and Idler--The Dictionary--Other
Works--Lives of the Poets--Person and Character--Style--Junius

CHAPTER XXXI.
THE LITERARY FORGERS IN THE ANTIQUARIAN AGE.
The Eighteenth Century--James Macpherson--Ossian--Thomas
Chatterton--His Poems--The Verdict--Suicide--The Cause

CHAPTER XXXII.
POETRY OF THE TRANSITION SCHOOL.
The Transition Period--James Thomson--The Seasons--The Castle of
Indolence--Mark Akenside--Pleasures of the Imagination--Thomas
Gray--The Elegy. The Bard--William Cowper--The Task--Translation of
Homer--Other Writers

CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE LATER DRAMA.
The Progress of the Drama--Garrick--Foote--Cumberland--Sheridan--George
Colman--George Colman, the Younger--Other Dramatists and
Humorists--Other Writers on Various Subjects

CHAPTER XXXIV.


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