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The Praise of Shakespeare

by C. E. Hughes

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Some Notes on Shakespeare’s Reputation
  4. 4II — Division Into Periods
  5. 5III — The First Period
  6. 6IV — The Second Period
  7. 7V — The Third Period
  8. 8VI — Scheme of the Book
  9. 9Part I — “These Three Hundred Years”
  10. 10The First Period — Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  11. 11Richard Barnfield, 1598 (1574-1627)
  12. 12John Weever, 1599 (1576-1632)
  13. 13John Davies, 1610 (1565?-1618)
  14. 14Thomas Freeman, 1614 (Fl. 1614)
  15. 15William Basse, 1622 (D. 1653?)
  16. 16Anonymous, 1623
  17. 17Ben Jonson, 1623 (1573-1637)
  18. 18Hugh Holland, 1623 (D. 1633)
  19. 19John Heminge, 1623 (D. 1630) — Henrie Condell (D. 1627)
  20. 20Leonard Digges, 1623 (1588-1635)
  21. 21Michael Drayton, 1627 (1563-1631)
  22. 22John Milton, 1630 (1608-1674)
  23. 23I — M. S., 1632
  24. 24John Hales, Before 1633 (1584-1656)
  25. 25Sir William D’Avenant, 1637 (1606-1668)
  26. 26Anonymous, About 1637
  27. 27Thomas Bancroft, 1639 (Fl. 1633-1658)
  28. 28George Daniel, 1647 (1616-1657)
  29. 29Samuel Sheppard, 1651 (Fl. C. 1606-1652)
  30. 30Thomas Fuller, C. 1661 (1608-1661)
  31. 31Samuel Pepys, 1662-1667 (1633-1703)
  32. 32Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1664 (1624?-1674)
  33. 33John Dryden, 1667 (1631-1700)
  34. 34Anonymous, 1672
  35. 35Edward Phillips, 1675 (1630-1696?)
  36. 36Thomas Otway, 1680 (1652-1685)
  37. 37“A Person of Honour,” 1681
  38. 38Sir Charles Sedley, 1693 (1639?-1701)
  39. 39The Second Period — The Eighteenth Century
  40. 40Nicholas Rowe, 1709 (1674-1718)
  41. 41Elijah Fenton, 1711 (1683-1730)
  42. 42John Dennis, 1712 (1657-1734)
  43. 43Edward Young, 1712 (1683-1765)
  44. 44Joseph Addison, 1714 (1672-1719)
  45. 45Alexander Pope, 1725 (1688-1744)
  46. 46James Thomson, 1727 (1700-1748)
  47. 47Lewis Theobald, 1733 (1688-1744)
  48. 48Joseph Warton, 1740 (1722-1800)
  49. 49William Collins, 1743 (1721-1759)
  50. 50Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1744 (1677-1746)
  51. 51Samuel Johnson, 1747 (1709-1784)
  52. 52Bishop William Warburton, 1747. (1698-1779)
  53. 53Christopher Smart, 1751 (1722-1771)
  54. 54David Hume, 1754. (1711-1774)
  55. 55Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1756 (1717-1797)
  56. 56John Armstrong, 1758 (1709-1779)
  57. 57William Mason, 1759 (1724-1797)
  58. 58Thomas Gray, 1759 (1716-1771)
  59. 59David Mallet, 1759 (1705?-1765)
  60. 60Edward Young, 1759 (1683-1765)
  61. 61Mark Akenside, C. 1760 (1721-1770)
  62. 62Robert Lloyd, 1760 (1733-1764)
  63. 63Edward Capell, 1760 (1713-1781)
  64. 64Charles Churchill, 1761 (1731-1764)
  65. 65William Whitehead, 1762 (1715-1785)
  66. 66William Thompson, 1763 (1712?-1766?)
  67. 67Samuel Johnson, 1765 (1709-1784)
  68. 68George Keate, 1768 (1729-1797)
  69. 69David Garrick, 1769 (1717-1779)
  70. 70Anonymous, 1769
  71. 71William Richardson, 1774 (1743-1814)
  72. 72William Julius Mickle, 1775 (1735-1788)
  73. 73William Hayley, 1777 (1745-1820)
  74. 74Thomas Warton, 1777 (1728-1790)
  75. 75Anna Seward, Before 1782 (1747-1809)
  76. 76William Lisle Bowles, 1794 (1762-1850)
  77. 77The Third Period Nineteenth Century
  78. 78Felicia Dorothea Hemans, 1804 (1793-1835)
  79. 79Sir Walter Scott, 1814 (1771-1832)
  80. 80Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817 (1772-1834)
  81. 81Francis Lord Jeffrey, 1817 (1773-1850)
  82. 82William Hazlitt, 1818 (1778-1830)
  83. 83John Keats, C. 1818 (1795-1821)
  84. 84John Wilson, 1819 (1785-1854)
  85. 85Charles Sprague, 1824 (1791-1875)
  86. 86Charles Lamb, 1824 (1775-1834)
  87. 87Julius Charles Hare, 1827 (1795-1855)
  88. 88James Hogg, 1831 (1770-1835)
  89. 89Charles Lamb, 1833 (1775-1834)
  90. 90Hartley Coleridge, 1833 (1796-1849)
  91. 91Thomas de Quincey, 1838 (1785-1859)
  92. 92John Sterling, 1839 (1806-1844)
  93. 93Henry Hallam, 1839 (1777-1859)
  94. 94Johnstone, 1840
  95. 95Thomas Carlyle, 1840 (1795-1881)
  96. 96William Wordsworth, 1841 (1770-1850)
  97. 97Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay, 1843 (1800-1859)
  98. 98Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844 (1803-1882)
  99. 99Frederick William Robertson, 1850 (1816-1853)
  100. 100Leigh Hunt, 1851 (1784-1859)
  101. 101James Anthony Froude, 1852 (1818-1894)
  102. 102David Masson, 1853 (B. 1822)
  103. 103Matthew Arnold, 1853 (1822-1888)
  104. 104Walter Savage Landor, 1853 (1775-1864)
  105. 105John Henry Newman, 1858 (1801-1890)
  106. 106James Russell Lowell, C. 1858 (1819-1891)
  107. 107Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1863 (1804-1864)
  108. 108Bishop Charles Wordsworth, 1864 (1806-1892)
  109. 109Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1864 (1809-1894)
  110. 110Cardinal Wiseman, 1865 (1802-1865)
  111. 111Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench, 1865 (1807-1886)
  112. 112Francis Turner Palgrave, 1865 (1824-1897)
  113. 113Frances Anne Kemble, 1866 (1809-1893)
  114. 114John Ruskin, 1868 (1819-1900)
  115. 115Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1871 (1828-1882)
  116. 116Bayard Taylor, 1872 (1825-1878)
  117. 117William Minto, 1874 (1845-1893)
  118. 118Edward Dowden, 1875 (B. 1843)
  119. 119George Meredith, 1877 (B. 1828)
  120. 120Frederick James Furnivall, 1877 (B. 1825)
  121. 121Walter Horatio Pater, 1878 (1839-1894)
  122. 122Matthew Arnold, 1879 (1822-1888)
  123. 123ANONYMOUS?c. 1880
  124. 124Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1880 (B. 1837)
  125. 125Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1882 (B. 1837)
  126. 126George Meredith, 1883 (B. 1828)
  127. 127Robert Browning, 1884 (1812-1889)
  128. 128William Wetmore Story, 1886 (B. 1819)
  129. 129Thomas Spencer Baynes, 1886 (1823-1887)
  130. 130Gerald Massey, 1888 (B. 1828)
  131. 131Walt Whitman, 1890 (1819-1892)
  132. 132Richard Watson Gilder, 1891 (B. 1844)
  133. 133Mathilde Blind, C. 1894 (1841-1896)
  134. 134Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Before 1892 (1809-1892)
  135. 135Sidney Lee, 1899 (B. 1859)
  136. 136Part II — “Good Sentences”
  137. 137Part III — “Round About”
  138. 138Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1664 (1624?-1674)
  139. 139Joseph Addison, 1711 (1672-1719)
  140. 140Henry Fielding, 1743 (1707-1754)
  141. 141Thomas Edwards, 1747 (1699-1757)
  142. 142Mark Akenside, 1749 (1721-1770)
  143. 143Robert Lloyd, 1751 (1733-1764)
  144. 144Oliver Goldsmith, 1765 (1728-1774)
  145. 145George, Lord Lyttelton, 1765 (1709-1773)
  146. 146Laurence Sterne, 1768 (1713-1768)
  147. 147Anonymous, 1769
  148. 148Isaac Bickerstaff, 1769 (D. 1812?)
  149. 149Anonymous, 1778
  150. 150Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1788 (1717-1797)
  151. 151Paul Whitehead, 1790 (1710-1774)
  152. 152William Combe, 1812 (1741-1823)
  153. 153Charles Lamb, 1826. (1775-1834)
  154. 154Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1845 (1804-1864)
  155. 155Walter Savage Landor, 1846 (1775-1864)
  156. 156William Schwenck Gilbert, 1868 — An Unfortunate Likeness (B. 1836)
  157. 157Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1872 (1809-1894)
  158. 158Theodore Watts-Dunton, 1897
  159. 159Judge Willis, 1902 (B. 1835)
  160. 160To My Very Good Friend, Mr. William Shakespeare

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