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Adams, Charles F.678
Adams, John429
Adams, John, note529, 530
Adams, John Quincy312, 458
Adams, Sarah Flower606
Addison, Joseph297
Ady, Thomas684
Æschines, note810
Æschylus695
Agricola, note686
Akenside, Mark391
Alanus de Insulis, note5
Aldrich, James639
Ali Ben Taleb767
Allen, Elizabeth A.668
Alphonso the Wise768
Amelia, Princess676
Ames, Fisher, note283
Archilochus, note216
Ariosto, note552
Aristides, note438
Aristophanes, note731
Aristotle, note267, 853
Armstrong, John672
Arnold, Matthew665
Arnold, Samuel J., note388
Arrianus, note704
Athenæus766
Avonmore, Lord, note531
Bacon, Francis164
Bacon, Lady Anne, note7
Bailey, Philip James654
Baillie, Joanna674
Bancroft, George, note531
Barbauld, Mrs.433
Barère, Bertrand804
Barham, R. H.676
Barker, Theodore L.682
Barnfield, Richard175
Barrett, Eaton S.676
Barrington, George445
Barrow, Isaac, note299
Barry, Michael J.680
Basse, William, note179
Baxter, Richard670
Bayard, Chevalier, note21
Bayle, Peter, note604
Bayly, T. Haynes581
Beattie, James428
Beaumont and Fletcher197
Beaumont, Francis196
Beaumont, John, note478
Bee, Bernard E.860
Bell, Robert, note330
Bellamy, G. W.682
Bellinghausen, Von Münch806
Bentham, Jeremy856
Bentley, Richard284
Benton, Thomas H.858
Berkeley, Bishop312
Berners, Juliana, note182
Berry, Dorothy, note484
Bertaut, Jean, note100
Bertin, Mademoiselle, note811
Bettelheim, A. S., note170
Bickerstaff, Isaac427
Blacker, Colonel588
Blackmore, Richard, note685
Blackstone, Sir William392
Blair, Robert354
Blamire, Susanna673
Bland, Robert, note191
Bobart, Jacob, note688
Bodinus, note418
Bodley, Sir Thomas, note368
Boethius, note618
Boileau799
Bolingbroke304
Booth, Barton306
Borbonius, note321
Bourdillon, Francis W.669
Bracton857
Brainard, John G. C.677
[viii]Bramston, James352
Breen, H. H., note409
Brereton, Jane312
Breton, Nicholas, note33
Bromley, Isaac H.681
Brooke, Lord35
Brougham, Lord527
Brougham, Lord, note426
Brown, John380
Brown, Tom286
Browne, Sir Thomas217
Browne, William201
Browning, Elizabeth B.620
Browning, Robert643
Bryant, William Cullen572
Brydges, Sir S. Egerton674
Buffon, note186
Bulfinch, Samuel G., note488
Bunn, Alfred561
Bunsen, Carl Josias, note770
Bunyan, John265
Burchard, Samuel D.679
Burke, Edmund407
Burnet, Gilbert, note610
Burns, Robert446
Burton, Robert185
Bussy de Rabutin, note286
Butler, Samuel209
Butler, Samuel, note361
Byrd, William, note22
Byrom, John351
Byron, Lord539
Calhoun, John C.529
Callimachus, note496
Campbell, Lord, note418, 528
Campbell, Thomas512
Camden, William684
Cambronne, note810
Canning, George464
Carew, Thomas200
Carey, Henry285
Carlyle, Thomas577
Carpenter, Joseph E.680
Carruthers, Robert, note528
Catinat, Marshal, note740
Catullus, note306
Centlivre, Susannah671
Cervantes784
Channing, William E.655
Chapman, George35
Charles I., note398
Charron, note317
Chase, Salmon P.619
Chaucer, Geoffrey1
Cherry, Andrew453
Chesterfield, Earl of352
Child, Lydia Maria596
Choate, Rufus588
Chorley, Henry F.667
Christy, David854
Church, Benjamin, note513
Churchill, Charles412
Cibber, Colley295
Cibber, Colley, note294
Cicero705
Clarendon, Edward Hyde255
Clarke, John, note568
Clarke, Macdonald582
Clay, Henry516
Clay, Henry, note505
Cleveland, Grover669
Codrington, Christopher, note295
Coke, Sir Edward24
Coleridge, Hartley677
Coleridge, S. Taylor498
Coleridge, S. Taylor, note481
Collins, William389
Colman, George454
Colton, C. C.675
Congreve, William294
Constable, Henry, note484
Constant, Henry B.806
Cook, Eliza654
Cooper, J. Fenimore, note580
Cornuel, Madame, note740
Cotton, Nathaniel362
Cowley, Abraham260
Cowper, William413
Crabbe, George443
Cranch, Christopher P.653
Cranfield, note210
Crashaw, Richard258
Crawford, Anne673
Cristyne, note12
Crockett, David852
Croker, John W., note284
Cunningham, Allan537
Curran, John P.855
Curtius, Quintus, note25
D'Abrantes, Duc806
D'Abrantes, Madame, note718
Dalrymple, Sir John, note550
Dance, Charles677
Daniel, Samuel39
Dante769
Danton, note28
Darwin, Charles622
Darwin, Erasmus424
Darwin, Erasmus, note426
Davenant, Sir William217
Davie, Adam, note21
[ix]Davies, Scrope682
Davies, Sir John175
Davis, Jefferson679
Davis, Thomas O.680
De Benserade, Isaac794
Debrett, John, note432
Decatur, Stephen675
De Caux, note396
Deffand, Madame du801
Defoe, Daniel286
Dekker, Thomas181
De la Ferté, note430
De Ligne803
De L'Isle, Joseph R.804
Demodocus, note400
De Morgan, note290
Demosthenes855
Denham, Sir John257
Denman, Lord527
Dennis, John282
De Quincey, note365
Dibdin, Charles436
Dibdin, Thomas675
Dickens, Charles652
Dickinson, John426
Dickman, Franklin J., note589
Didacus Stella, note185
Diogenes Laertius757
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, note304
Dionysius the Elder700
Disraeli, Benjamin607
Dix, John A.678
Doddridge, Philip359
Dodsley, Robert671
Domett, Alfred642
Donne, John177
Dowling, Bartholomew641
Drake, Joseph Rodman573
Drayton, Michael40
Drennan, William855
Drummond, Thomas582
Drummond, William196
Drummond, William note170
Dryden, John267
Du Bartas780
Dufferin, Lady611
Dumas, Alexandre, note809
Duncombe, Lewis, note459
D'Urfey, note348
Dwight, Timothy674
Dyer, Edward22
Dyer, John358
Dyer ——672
Eastwick, note437
Edgeworth, Maria, note283
Edwards, Richard21
Edwards, Thomas671
Edwin, John439
Elliot, Jared, note392
Elliott, Jane393
Ellis, George, note175
Ellis, Henry675
Emerson, Ralph Waldo598
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, note511
Emmet, Robert675
English, Thomas Dunn680
Epictetus742
Erasmus, note3, 5, 216, 720
Estienne, Henri, note379
Euripides697
Euripides, note277
Everett, David459
Everett, Edward571
Faber, Frederick W.653
Fanshawe, Catherine M.674
Farquhar, George305
Fénelon, note353
Ferriar, John456
Field, Nathaniel670
Fielding, Henry362
Finch, Francis M.668
Fitz-Geffrey, Charles, note305
Fletcher, Andrew281
Fletcher, Julia A.642
Fletcher, John183
Fletcher, Phineas, note327
Foote, Samuel391
Ford, John670
Fordyce, James391
Fortescue, John7
Fouché, Joseph805
Fournier, note310
Fox, Charles J., note364
Fox, John, note484
Francis the First, note807
Franck, Richard, note305
Franklin, Benjamin359
Franklin, Kate682
Freneau, Philip443
Frere, J. Hookham462
Frothingham, Richard, note360
Fuller, Thomas221
Fuller, Thomas, note484
Gage, Thomas, note495
Garrick, David387
Garrison, William L.605
Garth, Samuel295
Garth, Samuel, note181
Gascoigne, George, note10
Gay, John347
[x]Getty, Rev. Dr., note631
Gibbon, Edward430
Gibbons, Thomas672
Gifford, Richard393
Goethe, Wolfgang von803
Goldsmith, Oliver394
Goldsmith, Oliver, note310, 592
Googe, Barnaby, note5, 7
Gorgias, note578
Gosson, Stephen, note731
Gower, John, note13
Grafton, Richard684
Granger, James, note395
Grant, Anne674
Grant, Ulysses S.664
Graves, Richard672
Graves, Richard, note295
Gray, Thomas381
Green, Matthew354
Greene, Albert G.596
Greene, Robert, note190
Greswell, note332
Greville, Mrs.389
Griffin, Gerald678
Gualtier, Phillippe, note64
Guarini, note495
Habington, William, note515
Hakewill, George683
Hakewill, George, note169
Hale, Edward E.681
Haliburton, Thomas C.580
Hall, Bishop182
Hall, Robert457
Halleck, Fitz-Greene561
Halliwell, James O.853
Halliwell, James O., note596
Hamilton, Alexander, note532
Hammond, J. H.678
Hannah, J., note22
Hare, Julius, note268
Harrington, Sir John39
Harrison, William684
Harte, Francis Bret669
Harvey, Stephen670
Hawker, Robert674
Hawker, Robert S., note687
Hayes, Edward, note588
Hayes, Rutherford B.665
Heath, Leonard666
Heber, Reginald535
Hegge, Robert, note181
Hemans, Felicia D.569
Hénault, note325
Hendyng, note7
Henry, Mathew282
Henry, Patrick429
Henshaw, Joseph263
Herbert, George204
Herodotus, note696, 807
Herrick, Robert201
Hervey, Thomas K.589
Hesiod692
Heywood, John8
Heywood, Thomas194
Hill, Aaron313
Hill, Rowland673
Hippocrates700
Hobbes, Thomas200
Hoffman, Charles F.678
Holcroft, Thomas673
Holland, Sir Richard38
Holmes, Oliver Wendell635
Home, John392
Hood, Thomas583
Hooker, Joseph680
Hooker, Richard31
Hooper, Ellen Sturgis654
Hopkins, Charles, note581
Hopkinson, Joseph465
Horace706
Horne, Bishop853
Horne, Richard H.604
Howard, Samuel672
Howell, James, note191, 208, 581
Howitt, Mary605
Hoyle, Edmund861
Hume, David854
Hume, David, note593, 685
Hunt, Leigh536
Hurd, Richard673
Hurdis, James454
Hutcheson, Francis856
Ingram, John K.681
Irving, Washington536
Jackson, Andrew458
James, G. P. R.678
James, Paul M.528
Jefferson, Thomas434
Jefferys, Charles611
Jerrold, Douglas597
Johnson, Andrew678
Johnson, Samuel365
Johnson, Samuel, note185, 294, 711
Jones, Sir William437
Jonson, Ben177
Juvenal721
Keats, John574
Keble, John569
Kemble, Frances Anne641
[xi]Kemble, J. P.445
Kempis, Thomas à7
Ken, Thomas278
Kenney, James676
Kenrick, William, note450
Kepler, John670
Key, Francis S.517
Key, T. H., note560
King, William, note217
Kinglake, John A.860
Kingsley, Charles664
Knight, Charles, note616
Knolles, Richard, note267
Knowles, James S.676
Knox, William561
Kotzebue, Von805
La Fontaine797
Lamb, Charles508
Lamb, Charles, note274
Landor, Walter S.511
Langford, G. W.683
Langhorne, John427
La Rochefoucauld794
Layard, Austen H.642
Lee, Henry445
Lee, Nathaniel281
Leighton, Archbishop, note379
Lemon, Mark679
Le Sage800
L'Estrange, Roger670
Leutsch and Schneidewin, note793
Ligne, Prince de803
Lincoln, Abraham622
Linley, George586
Linschoten, Hugh van861
Livy, note13
Lloyd, David, note310
Lockhart, John G.677
Lockhart, John G., note427, 490
Logan, John438
Logau, Friedrich von793
Longfellow, Henry W.612
Lovelace, Richard259
Lover, Samuel582
Lowe, John673
Lowell, James Russell656
Lowth, Robert672
Lucretius706
Lydgate, John, note5
Luther, Martin770
Lyly, John31
Lyttelton, Lord377
Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer606
Macaulay, Thomas B.589
Macaulay, Thomas B., note,332, 610, 855
Mackay, Charles653
Mackintosh, James457
Mackintosh, James, note291
Macklin, Charles350
Madden, Samuel314
Mahon, Lord860
Mahon, Lord, note364, 474
Manners, Lord John680
Marcus Aurelius749
Marcy, William L.676
Markham, Gervase, note187
Marlowe, Christopher40
Marmion, Shakerley, note171
Martial722
Martin, Henri, note807
Marvell, Andrew262
Mason, William393
Massinger, Philip194
McMaster, John B., note435
Maule857
Mee, William682
Melchior, note171
Menander, note390
Merrick, James390
Meurier, Gabriel, note80
Michelangelo769
Mickle, William J.426
Middleton, Thomas172
Miller, William679
Milman, Henry Hart564
Milnes, Richard M.634
Milton, John223
Mimnermus699
Miner, Charles528
Molière797
Monnoye, Bernard de la, note400
Montagu, Mary Wortley350
Montagu, Mary Wortley, note461
Montaigne774
Montgomery, James496
Montgomery, Robert610
Montrose, Marquis of257
Moore, Clement C.527
Moore, Edward377
Moore, Thomas518
More, Hannah437
More, Sir Thomas, note30, 100
Morell, Thomas, note281
Morgan, M. H.860
Morris, Charles432
Morris, George P.595
Morton, Thomas457
Moss, Thomas433
Motherwell, William580
Muhlenberg, William A.678
Mulock, Dinah M.667
[xii]Münster, Ernst F., note807
Murphy, Arthur393
Nairne, Lady458
Napier, Sir W. F. P.537
Napoleon Bonaparte, note811
Napoleon, Louis, note810
Nash, Thomas861
Nelson, Horatio446
Newton, Isaac278
Noel, Thomas683
Norris, John281
Northbrooke, note17
Norton, Caroline E. S.679
O'Hara, Kane672
O'Hara, Theodore681
O'Keefe, John673
O'Kelley, Captain855
Oldham, John, note366
Oldys, William671
Oliphant, Thomas, note685
Omar Khayyám768
O'Meara, Barry E.675
Orrery, Roger B., note258
Ortin, Job, note359
Otway, Thomas280
Overbury, Sir Thomas193
Ovid707
Oxenstiern, note195
Paine, Robert Treat675
Paine, Thomas431
Paine, Thomas, note605
Paley, William673
Panat, Chevalier de, note811
Pardoe, Julia680, 860
Parker, Martyn176
Parker, Theodore639
Parnell, Thomas305
Pascal798
Pascal, note169
Payne, J. Howard568
Peele, George24, 184, 530
Percival, James G.677
Percy, Thomas404
Perry, Oliver H.676
Persius, note188, 305
Petrarch, note295
Phædrus715
Philips, Ambrose671
Philips, John671
Phillips, Charles677
Phillips, Wendell641
Philostratus, note179
Pierpont, John538
Pilpay691
Pinckney, Charles C.673
Piozzi, Madame, note560, 806
Pitt, Earl of Chatham364
Pitt, William453
Pitt, William (the younger)510
Plato, note317
Plautus700
Playford, John684
Pliny the Elder716
Pliny the Younger748
Plutarch722
Poe, Edgar A.640
Pollok, Robert588
Pomfret, John289
Pompadour, Madame de, note205
Pope, Alexander314
Pope, Walter670
Porter, Horace682
Porter, Mrs. David682
Porteus, Beilby425
Potter, Henry C.668
Powell, Sir John278
Praed, Winthrop M.595
Priestley, Joseph858
Prior, James, note412
Prior, Matthew287
Proclus, note740, 811
Procter, Bryan W.538
Publius Syrus708
Pulteney, William671
Quarles, Francis203
Quincy, Josiah, Jr.436
Quincy, Josiah505
Quintilian721
Quitard, note176
Rabelais770
Racine, note391, 704
Radcliffe, Ann456
Raleigh, Sir Walter25
Ramsay, Allan671
Randall, H. S.859
Ranke, Leopold, note770
Ransford, Edwin683
Raspe, note739
Ravenscroft, Thomas683
Ray, William, note216
Rhodes, William B.388
Richards, Amelia B., note533
Robinson, Mary674
Rochester, Earl of279
Rogers, Samuel455
[xiii]Roland, Madame804
Roscommon, Earl of278
Rousseau802
Rowe, Nicholas301
Roydon, Mathew23
Rumbold, Richard682
Russell, W. S.860
Saint Augustine767
Saint Simon, note189
Sala, George A., note463
Sales, Saint Francis de, note372
Salis, Von805
Sallust, note167
Salvandy, Comte de, note811
Sandys, Sir Edwin, note314
Sargent, Epes679
Savage, Richard354
Scarron, note216
Schelling, note807
Schidoni793
Schiller804
Scott, Sir Walter487
Scott, Sir Walter, note852
Scott, Winfield676
Sears, Edmund H.640
Sebastiani, General, note809
Sedaine, Michel J.803
Sedley, Charles671
Selden, John194
Selvaggi, note271
Seneca714
Sévigné, Madame de, note740, 801
Sewall, Harriet W.680
Sewall, Jonathan M.439
Seward, Thomas, note189
Seward, William H.595
Sewell, George671
Shaftesbury, Earl of, note578
Shakespeare, William42
Sharman, Julian, note12
Sheffield279
Shelley, Percy B.564
Shelley, Percy B., note592
Shenstone, William379
Sheres, Sir Henry, note13
Sherman, William T.681
Sheridan, R. Brinsley440
Shirley, James209
Sidney, Algernon264
Sidney, Sir Philip34
Silius Italicus, note207
Sirmond, John793
Sismondi, note807
Skelton, John8
Smart, Christopher, note363
Smith, Adam858
Smith, Alexander667
Smith, Captain John, note495
Smith, Edmund, note333
Smith, Horace517
Smith, James510
Smith, Samuel F.619
Smith, Seba568
Smith, Sydney459
Smollett, Tobias392
Smyth, William, note391
Socrates, note63
Somerville, William, note314
Sophocles696
Sophocles, note133
Sorbienne, note286
South, Robert, note310
Southerne, Thomas282
Southey, Robert506, 853
Southwell, Robert, note22
Sparks, Jared, note717
Spencer, Herbert681
Spencer, William R.464
Spenser, Edmund27
Sprague, Charles564
Staël, Madame de, note174, 807
Steele, Sir Richard297
Steers, Fanny682
Sterne, Laurence378
Sternhold, Thomas23
Stevens, George A.672
Stiles, Ezra859
Still, Bishop22
Stolberg, Christian, note503
Story, Joseph675
Stoughton, William266
Stowell, Lord437
Suckling, Sir John256
Suetonius, note307
Sumner, Charles859
Swift, Jonathan289
Tacitus747
Talfourd, Thomas N.577
Taney, Roger B.675
Tate and Brady851
Taylor, Bayard666
Taylor, Henry594
Taylor, Jane and Ann534
Taylor, Jeremy, note169, 193
Taylor, John670
Taylor, John, note20
Temple, Sir William266
Tennyson, Alfred623
Terence702
Tertullian756
[xiv]Theobald, Louis352
Theocritus, note349
Theognis694
Thomas, Frederick W.679
Thomson, James355
Thrale, Mrs.432
Thucydides, note726
Thurlow, Lord426
Tibullus, note106
Tickell, Thomas313
Tillotson, John266
Titus, Colonel, note352
Tobin, John463
Tolowiez, note767
Toplady, Augustus M.432
Tourneur, Cyril34
Townley, James380
Trumbull, John439
Tucker, Dean858
Tuke, Samuel670
Tupper, Martin F.640
Tusser, Thomas20
Uhland, Johann L.806
Unknown Authors707
Usteri, J. M.805
Valerius Maximus, note807
Vanbrugh, Sir John684
Van Buren, Martin, note364
Vandyk, H. S.678
Varro, note167
Vaughan, Henry263
Vauvenargues803
Vegetius, note425
Venning, Ralph262
Villon769
Virgil, note185, 720, 810
Volney, note592
Voltaire800
Voss, J. H., note811
Wade, J. A.594
Walker, William265
Wallace, Horace B., note361
Waller, Edmund219
Walpole, Horace389
Walpole, Horace, note592
Walpole, Sir Robert304
Walpole, Sir Robert, note389
Walton, Izaak206
Warburton, Thomas859
Warner, William38
Ward, Thomas857
Warton, Thomas403
Washington, George425
Watson, William855
Watts, Isaac301
Webster, Daniel529
Webster, John180
Welby, Amelia B.681
Wellington, Duke of463
Wells, William V.858
Wesley, Charles672
Wesley, John359
Whetstone, George, note14
Whewell, William, note169
White, Henry Kirke, note592
Whittier, John G.618
Wight, Rezin A.854
Wilde, Richard H.677
Willard, Emma676
Williams, Helen M.674
Williams, Roger, note208
Willis, Nathaniel P.655
Willis, Nathaniel P., note580
Wilson, Alexander860
Wilson, John, note558
Wilson, Mrs. C. B.677
Winslow, Edward, note283
Winthrop, John670
Winthrop, Robert C.638
Wither, George199
Wolcot, John431
Wolfe, Charles563
Wolfe, James673
Woodworth, Samuel537
Wordsworth, William465
Wotton, Sir Henry174
Wrother, Miss683
Wycherley, William, note452
Yalden, Thomas, note181
Yonge, Nicholas, note711
Young, Edward306
Young, Sir John, note177
Zamoyski, Jan, note810
Zouch, Thomas, note209

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