Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle:-French Language in England The Ancren Riwle :-Eating and Fasting Minot; First Invasion of France by Edward III. Piers Ploughman's Creed:-Description of Piers Vision of Piers Ploughman :-Commencement Chaucer :-House of Fame; Eagle's Address to Chaucer Canterbury Tales; The Prioress (from the Prologue) PAGE 87 87 87 88 88 88 88 88 92 96 98 101 105 108 113 118 138 140 141 142 Barbour :-The Bruce; Eulogy on Freedom Mandevil :-Travels; part of Prologue Chaucer (Prose):-Canterbury Tales; Pride in Dress, etc. Bishop Pecock :-Repressor; Midsummer Eve Fortescue:-Difference, etc.; French King and People Blind Harry :-Wallace; his Latin Original The same subject 162 164 166 170 171 173 177 181 181 с Commencement of the Poem 181 Blind Harry :-Wallace; Part of Battle of Shortwoodshaw Sir Thomas More :-Letter to his Wife Udall :-Ralph Roister Doister Spenser-Fairy Queen; Belphoebe Warner :-Albion's England; Old Man and his Ass Fall of Richard the Third. PAGE 182 L'Envoy 183 Eulogy on Jonson 290 293 Daniel :-Musophilus; Defence of Poetry Nymphidia; Queen of the Fairies Sylvester :-Divine Weeks and Works; Praise of Night Cleveland :-Epitaph on Ben Jonson Wither:-Amygdala Britannica; Prophecy Songs and Hymns; Thanksgiving for Seasonable Weather 295 Thanksgiving for Victory Milton:-College Exercise; His Native Language Waller :-His Last Verses Marvel :-The Picture of T. C. Mandeville :-Fable of the Bees; Anticipation of Adam Smith Letters on a Regicide Peace; Right Way of making War Cowper :-Table Talk; National Vice Conversation; Meeting on the Road to Emmaus Darwin :-Botanic Garden; "Flowers of the Sky' PAGE Coleridge :-Love, Hope, and Patience, in Education Campbell:-Adelgitha . Theodric; Letter of Constance Crabbe:-Tales of the Hall; Story of the Elder Brother (part). Shelley:-Ode to a Skylark. Keats:-Ode to a Nightingale Hunt:-The Sultan Mahmoud 503 505 Wellington. R. Browning:-The Pied Piper of Hamelin (part) Hood:-The Death-bed. 507 514 518 Paris. 519 Her Mother's Picture 520 522 524 526 531 MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. THE LANGUAGES OF MODERN EUROPE. THE existing European languages may be nearly all comprehended under five divisions. First, there are the Celtic tongues of Ireland and Wales, and their subordinate varieties. Secondly, there are the tongues founded upon the Latin spoken by the old Romans, and thence called the Romance or the Neo-Latin, that is, the New Latin, tongues; of these, the principal are the Italian, the Spanish, and the French. The Romaic, or Modern Greek, may be included under the same head. Thirdly, there are what have been variously designated the Germanic, Teutonic, or Gothic tongues, being those which were originally spoken by the various barbarian races by whom the Roman empire of the West was overthrown and overwhelmed (or at the least subjugated, revolutionized, and broken up) in the fifth and sixth centuries. Fourthly, there are the Slavonic tongues, of which the Russian and the Polish are the most distinguished. Fifthly, there are the Tschudic tongues, as they have been denominated, or those spoken by the Finnic and Laponnic races. Almost the only language which this enumeration leaves out is that still preserved by the French and Spanish Biscayans, and known as the Basque, or among those who speak it as the Euskarian, which seems to stand alone among the tongues not only of Europe but of the world. It is supposed to be a remnant of the ancient Iberian or original language of Spain. The order in which four at least of the five sets or classes of languages have been named may be regarded as that of their probable introduction into Europe from Asia or the East, or at any rate of their establishment in the localities of which they are now severally in possession. First, apparently, came the Celtic, now driven on to the farthest west; after which followed B |