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1 online resource (1247 pages) |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Authors -- Chronology -- Thematic Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Editorial Principles -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Ballads and Newsbooks from the Civil War (1640-1649) -- The World is Turned Upside Down (1646) -- The King's Last farewell to the World, or The Dead King's Living Meditations, at the approach of Death denounced against Him1 (1649) -- The Royal Health to the Rising Sun (1649) -- from A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament (1649) -- Number 288 29 January-5 February 1649 -- from Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649) -- Number 43 30 January-6 February 1649 -- Chapter 2 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- from Leviathan (1651) -- Chapter XIII: Of the NATURAL CONDITION of Mankind, as concerning their Felicity, and Misery -- Chapter 3 Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- from Hesperides (1648) -- The Argument of His Book -- To Daffodils -- The Night-piece, to Julia -- The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home -- Upon Julia's Clothes -- When he would have his verses read -- Delight in Disorder -- To the Virgins, to make much of Time -- His Return to London -- The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad -- The Pillar of Fame -- Chapter 4 John Milton (1608-1674) -- from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce -- Restored to the Good of Both Sexes, Fromthe bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to Christian freedom, guided by the Ruleof Charity. Wherein also many places of Scripture, have recovered their long-lostmeaning. Seasonable to be now thought on in the Reformation intended. (1643) -- Book I The Preface -- from Chapter I -- from Chapter VI -- from Areopagitica -- A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty ofUnlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) -- from Poems (1673) -- Sonnet 18 (1655) On the Late Massacre in Piemont. |
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Sonnet 19 (1652?) 'When I Consider how my Light is Spent' -- Sonnet 16 [To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652] -- from Paradise Lost (1667) -- The Verse -- Book I The Argument -- Book II The Argument -- Book IV The Argument -- Book IX The Argument -- Chapter 5 Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Anacreontiques: Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of Anacreon -- To the Royal Society -- Chapter 6 Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) -- from Miscellaneous Poems (1681) -- The Coronet -- The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers -- Bermudas (1653?) -- The Mower to the Glo-Worms (1651-2?) -- An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650) -- The Garden (1651-2?) -- On a Drop of Dew (1651-2?) -- To his Coy Mistress (c.1645) -- Chapter 7 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) -- from Poems and Fancies (1653) -- Poets have most Pleasure in this Life -- from The Description of a New World, called The Blazing World (1666) -- Chapter 8 John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) -- Chapter 9 John Dryden (1631-1700) -- To My Honoured Friend, Dr Charleton, on his learned and useful Works -- and more particularly this of STONE-HENGE, by him Restored to the true Founders (1663) -- Mac Flecknoe (1676?) -- Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem (1681) -- To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684) -- To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young LADY Mrs. Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-Arts of Poesy, and Painting. An Ode (1686) -- Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687) -- Alexander's Feast -- or The Power of Music. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day. -- from Fables Ancient and Modern (1700) -- Pygmalion and the Statue -- Secular Masque -- Chapter 10 Katherine Philips (1632-1664) -- from Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips,the matchless Orinda (1667) -- Friendship. |
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Friendship's Mystery, To my dearest Lucasia1 -- Epitaph On her Son H. P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred1 -- The Virgin -- Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks -- To the truly competent Judge of Honour, Lucasia, upon a scandalous Libel made by J. J. -- To Mrs. Wogan, my Honoured Friend, on the Death of her Husband -- Orinda to Lucasia -- Parting with Lucasia, A Song -- To Antenor, on a Paper of mine which J. J. threatens to publish to prejudice him -- Chapter 11 John Locke (1632-1704) -- from An Essay concerning the True Original, Extent and Endof Civil Government (1690) -- from Chapter 1 -- from Chapter 2 Of the State of Nature -- from Chapter 4 Of Slavery -- from Chapter 5 Of Property -- Chapter 12 Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) -- from Diary -- July 1665 -- August 1665 -- Chapter 13 Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) -- from Poems upon Several Occasions (1684) -- The Golden Age A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French -- The Disappointment -- from Lycidus: or the Lover in Fashion (1688) -- To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman -- The Rover: Or, The Banished Cavaliers (1677) -- Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave. A True History (1688) -- Chapter 14 John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- The Imperfect Enjoyment -- A Ramble in Saint James's Park -- A Satyr against Reason and Mankind -- The Disabled Debauchee -- Lampoon -- [Signior Dildo] -- A Satire on Charles II -- A Letter from Artemiza in the Town to Chloe in the Country -- Chapter 15 Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) -- from An Essay upon Projects (1698) -- An Academy for Women -- from The True-Born Englishman: A Satire (1700) -- Part I -- The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters: Or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church (1702). |
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A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, The next Day after Her Death: To One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury. The 8th of September, 1705 (1706) -- from the London Gazette -- Monday, 11 January to Thursday, 14 January 1702 -- Chapter 16 Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) -- The Introduction -- Life's Progress -- Adam Posed -- The Petition for an Absolute Retreat -- To the Nightingale -- A Poem for the Birth-day of the Right Honourable the Lady Catharine Tufton -- The Atheist and the Acorn -- The Unequal Fetters -- The Answer (to Pope's Impromptu) -- The Spleen: A Pindaric Poem (1701 -- revised 1713) -- Chapter 17 Mary Astell (1666-1731) -- from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancementof their True and Greatest Interest. By a Lover of her Sex (1694) -- Chapter 18 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- A Tale of a Tub Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind (1704) -- A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729) -- A Description of the Morning (1709) -- The Lady's Dressing Room (1732) -- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed Written for the Honour of the Fair Sex (1734) -- A Description of a City Shower (1710) -- Stella's Birth-Day (13 March 1719) -- Chapter 19 Delarivier Manley (c.1670-1724) -- from Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes.From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (1709) -- Chapter 20 William Congreve (1670-1729) -- The Way of the World (1700) -- Chapter 21 Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729) -- from the Spectator -- Number 11, Tuesday, March 13, 1711 [Inkle and Yarico] -- Number 159, Saturday, September 1, 1711 [The Visions of Mirzah] -- Chapter 22 Isaac Watts (1674-1748). |
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from Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children (1715) -- Against Quarrelling and Fighting -- The Sluggard -- Chapter 23 Allan Ramsay (1684-1758) -- from The Poems of Allan Ramsay (1800) -- Polwart on the Green (1721) -- Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land (1721) -- Chapter 24 John Gay (1685-1732) -- The Beggar's Opera (1728) -- Chapter 25 Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- An Essay on Criticism (1711) -- The RAPE of the LOCK. An Heroi-Comical Poem (1714) In Five Canto's -- Eloisa to Abelard (1717) -- from The Dunciad Variorum (1729) -- Martinus Scriblerus, of the Poem -- Dunciados Periocha: or, Arguments to the Books -- THE DUNCIAD Book the First -- from Letters -- To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1 September 1718) -- Chapter 26 Mary Collier (1688?-1762) -- The Woman's Labour: An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck -- In Answer to his late Poem, called The Thresher's Labour … (1739) -- Chapter 27 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) -- from LETTERS Of the Right Honourable Lady M-y W--y M---u:Written, during her Travels in EUROPE, ASIA and AFRICA, TO Persons ofDistinction,Men of Letters, & -- c. in different Parts of Europe. WHICH CONTAIN,Among other CURIOUS Relations, Accounts of the POLICY and MANNERSof the TURKS -- Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessibleto other Travellers -- To the Lady X-- -- To the Lady -- -- [To Lady Mar] -- To Mr. [Alexander] Pope -- To Mr. [Alexander] P[ope] -- The Lover (1721-5) -- The Reasons that Induced Dr. S[wift] to Write a Poem Called the Lady's Dressing Room (1732-4) -- To the Memory of Mr Congreve (1729?) -- [A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's advice to a Lady] (1731-3) -- Chapter 28 Trials at the Old Bailey (1722-1727) -- from Select TRIALS at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey (1742) -- H -- J --, for a Rape, 1722 -- Gabriel Lawrence, for Sodomy, April, 1726. |
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Mary Picart, alias Gandon, for Bigamy, June, 1725. |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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