Category: British Literature
We take outlook to-day from the threshold of the seventeenth century. Elizabeth is dead (1603), but not England. The powers it had grown to under her quickening offices are all alive. The great Spanish dragon has its teeth drawn; Cadiz has been despoiled, and huge galleons, go...
In our last talk we had an opening skirmish with a group of royal people; we saw James II. flitting away ignominiously from a throne he could not fill or hold; we saw that rough...
12. CHAPTER IV.I did not hold the reader’s attention long to the nightmare tragedies of Webster and Ford, though they show shining passages of amazing dramatic power. Marston was touched upon,...
11. CHAPTER III.We were venturing upon almost sacred ground when--in our last chapter--we had somewhat to say of the so-called King James’ Bible; of how it came to bear that name; of those men...
10. CHAPTER II.We have had our glimpse of the first (English) Stuart King, as he made his shambling way to the throne--beset by spoilsmen; we had our glimpse, too, of that haughty, high-souled...
14. CHAPTER VI.There were some unsavory names which crept into the opening of our last chapter; but they were sweet in the nostrils of Charles II. Of such were Buckingham, Rochester, Etherege,...
9. CHAPTER I.We take outlook to-day from the threshold of the seventeenth century. Elizabeth is dead (1603), but not England. The powers it had grown to under her quickening offices are all...
15. CHAPTER VII.I have a fear that my readers were not overmuch interested in what I had to say of that witty Dr. Thomas Fuller who wrote about the _Worthies of England_, and who pressed his st...
13. CHAPTER V.As we launched upon the days of Charles I., in our last talk, we had somewhat to say of the King’s advisers, lay and ecclesiastic; we came to quick sense of the war-clouds, fast...
3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.1. CHAPTER I.7. CHAPTER VII.2. CHAPTER II.8. CHAPTER VIII.6. CHAPTER VI.5. CHAPTER V.