What party in politics? What success did he meet with? What situation obtain? When die? What does Campbell say of his poetry? What is the poem by which he is best known? What is said of it? What is the story taken from? Give the substance of it? (note.) [Commit "Hymn to Contentment."]

WILLIAM PENN, (p. 369.)

What is said of him? How renowned? Whose son? In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What early change in religious views? How treated by his father? When did he begin to preach? How treated? What is his most popular work? For what was he tried? What is the most important period of his life? Where was territory granted to him? Why? When did he sail from England? In what ship? When arrive at Newcastle? Where then did he go with the colonists? What were his reasons for coming to America? When did he return to England? What did he there accomplish? When did he re-embark for this country? How long did he remain? Why so short a time? When did he die? Of what works was he the author?

JOSEPH ADDISON, (p. 374.)

What is said of Addison? Where educated? In whose reigns did he flourish? How did he first attract notice? What pension did he obtain? Where did he travel? What compose there? What did he publish on his return? What deprived him of his pension? What poem did he write? What does Warton call it? (note.) What ballad superior on the same subject? When did the Tatler first appear? How did Addison recognise Steele's hand in it? What paper did Addison project? What is said of it? When was it commenced? (note.) What is its plan? Who were the contributors? How are Addison's papers designated? What followed the Spectator? When commenced? Whom did Addison marry? What is said of her, and of the connection? What is said of Addison's death? Relate the account of it? When did he die? What does Melmoth say of him as a writer? What Young? What Johnson? What are the four departments in literature in which he excels? What is said of him as a critic? What critical papers are mentioned? What of his humor? What papers most distinguished for this quality? What of the moral tendency of his writings? [Commit what he says of Shakspeare. Also the "Hymn" on p. 395.] What works and criticisms referred to?

What

SIR RICHARD STEELE, (p. 402.) Where born? When? Where educated? What profession did he first choose? were the consequences? In what department of literature did he first exert himself? What periodical paper did he project? When published? What appellation does he deserve? When did he begin the Spectator with Addison? When the Guardian? What title did he receive? To what post of honor elected? Why continue so poor? What was one of his projects? When did he die? What is said of his style? How does he compare with Addison? How with Tillotson, Temple, and Dryden? [Commit Shakspeare's Description of Dover Cliff.]

DANIEL DE FOE, (p. 410.)

How known? When born, and where? What of his education? In what did he first engage? Why leave it? What did he first publish? What periodical paper? When? What did it resemble? Upon what new field did he afterwards enter? What is said of his best known work? What else did he publish? What curious title of one work? When did he die? What is said of him as a writer? What peculiar power had he? What does Dr. Johnson say of Robinson Crusoe?

JOHN GAY, (p. 414.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What was his early employment? Why abandoned? What his first work? Of what benefit was it to him? What post did he obtain in 1712? What work did he soon after publish? What does Drake say of it? What other department in literature did he enter? What successful drama did he write? By what is he now known? What is said of his Fables? What of his character? What are the lines of Pope? What prose did he write?

BARTON BOOTH, (p. 418.)

Dates of birth and death? What is said of him? Why deserve a notice here?

JOHN ARBUTHNOT, (p. 419.) Whose son was he? Where educated?

JONATHAN SWIFT, (p. 433.) Where born? Where educated? With whom did he early reside? What did he there write? Who invited him to Ireland? Where did he settle there? Relate the aneodote, (note.) What did he publish in 1704? What is its design? What its character? How rewarded in 1713? What destroyed his hopes of further preferment? How, for many years, did he employ himself? What made him very popular with the Irish in 1724? Give the account in full? What was the result? What did he publish in 1726? What is said of it? Its design? What were some of his other publications? Give the account of the end of his life. What is said

say? What is one of the most amusing of his papers? Give an account of it. What effect had it? Who helped him on with the joke? Who wrote the most interesting account? What is said of Swift's poetry?

THOMAS YALDEN, (p. 446.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What profession did he enter? What is said of his poetry? Of his prose? What paper of great humor did he write?

ALEXANDER POPE, (p. 450.)

When born? What of his early life? What of his poetic taste? What instance of precocity? When did he write his pastorals? When his Messiah? What is the Messiah? On what founded? Who was Pollio? (note.) When did he finish his Essay on Criticism? What did he publish in 1712? What kind of a poem is it? What else did he publish successively? For what, at the age of twenty-five, did he issue proposals? What of its success? What followed such fame? How did he retaliate? Was it wise thus to do? What did he publish in 1733? How assailed? Who has vindicated it? What did he project? Did he finish it? What is his rank as a poet? What of his person? (note.) Lord Bacon's remarks? How does Warton rank Pope? What does Roscoe say of the Messiah? (note.) What does Johnson say of the Essay on Criticism? What Warton? Subject of the Essay on Man? In what does Pope most show his inventive powers? Subject of the Rape of the Lock? What does Warton say of it? (note.) What of Pope's prose works? [Commit at pleasure.]

ROBERT BLAIR, (p. 465.)

Where born? What profession did he enter? What is his chief work? What does Campbell say of it? [Commit at pleasure.]

JAMES THOMSON, (p. 468.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What incident turned his atten. tion to poetry? When did he publish his "Winter"? When the other Seasons? What is his noblest effort? What does Campbell say of it? When did he die? What rank does he hold as a descriptive poet? What does Campbell remark? What is his greatest charm? [Commit the stanzas from "Castle of Indolence"-the "Various Sufferings in Winter"-and "Hymn on the Seasons."]

to be considered in his literary character? What is said of him as a poet? What of his Psalms and Hymns? What as a philosopher? What were his works in this department? What does Dr. Johnson say of his "Improvement of the Mind"? What of him as a theologian? What did he remark of the Bible? (note.) What does Dr. Johnson say of him as a poet? (note.) What is Dr. Drake's criticism? [Commit "Summer Evening" "The Rose" "Looking Upward""Seeking a Divine Calm," &c.]

CONYERS MIDDLETON, (p. 489.) For what celebrated? When born? What was his first publication? What does Dr. Monk say of it? What did he publish in 1729? Its object? What is his great work? When did it appear? What might it be called? What of its style? What did he publish in 1749? What of it? When did he die? [Commit "Character of Pompey."]

LORD BOLINGBROKE, (p. 494.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What political side did he espouse? Whither did he go? What was done respecting him in his absence? In whose cause did he enlist? What occurred in 1723? What in 1735? What did he there write? When did he return to England? When die? To whom did he bequeath his manuscripts? What did they contain? What was Johnson's remark? Give the account and cause of Bolingbroke's maligning Pope, (note.) What is said of his character? Of his style?

PHILIP DODDRIDGE, (p. 499.) What is said of his influence? Where and when born? What of his education? Where did he settle as a clergyman and schoolmaster? For how long? What is said of his labors? Where did he go for his health? With what result? What of his writings? What is his best known work? What is said of it? With what other great and good men does he rank? What are some of his other works? What popular biographical work did he write? Who was Colonel Gardiner? Give the account of his conversion, (note.) Is the military compatible with the Christian profession? What is Doddridge's most elaborate work? For what else are we indebted to Doddridge? Repeat the epigram, and his hymns.

JOSEPH BUTLER, (p. 504.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? What profession did he design to enter? What did he early publish? What change in his views? What appointment did he receive in 1718? What did he publish in 1736? What is its object? What of its execution? What is said of the work? When did he die? What is said of his character? Of his benevolence? What was his remark when made Bishop of Durham? [Repeat Bishop Wilson's admirable remarks on the "Analogy."]|

GEORGE BERKELEY, (p. 510.) Where and when born? Where educated? What did he publish in 1709? Its object? What in the year following? What does it attempt to prove? What influence had it in making him known? Where did he travel? What time spend there? What did he publish on his return? Give an account of the South Sea scheme, (note.) What object had he long had in view? What did he do to effect it? Repeat the verses in connection with it. When did he sail from England? Where reside? What was the result of his plan? What publish in 1732? What in 1744? What is said of it? Where did he reside the latter part of his life? Give the account of his death. What of his character? What is the line of Pope applied to him?

ELIZABETH TOLLET, (p. 515.)

Dates of birth and death? Whose daughter? What of her poetry?

WILLIAM COLLINS, (p. 516.)

What of him as a poet? When born? In whose reigns flourish? What does Johnson say of him? When were his odes published? How received at first? How was he relieved from pecuniary embarrassment? What does Campbell say of his poetry? What Drake? (note.) What Hazlitt? [Commit "Ode to Fear"-"The Passions"-"Ode to Mercy."] On what occasion was the Ode to Mercy written?

SAMUEL RICHARDSON, (p. 525.)

What is said of him? When did he flourish? What of his boyhood? At what trade was he put? How did he rise? What situation did he obtain? What did he first publish? What was his first novel? How received? What his second? What is said of it? What does Dr. Drake say? What was his third? Its object? When did he die? What of his character? Why not now much read? What work published in 1755?

THOMAS SHERLOCK, (p. 529.)

Where born? In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? In what did he distinguish himself? What promotions did he receive? When did he die? What is said of his sermons? His style?

LADY MONTAGU, (p. 532.)

Whose daughter? What of her character and education? To whom married? Where reside? Whose society enjoy? To what place did she go in 1716? When return? Where settle? Result? What did she introduce into England? How long reside there after her return? Where go in 1739? Where and when did she die? To what chiefly does she owe her fame? What is said of her letters?

EDWARD YOUNG, (p. 555.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What anecdote told of him in college? What tragedy did he publish? What of it? What did he publish in 1725? What is said of them? What was Goldsmith's criticism? What profession did he enter? Whom did he marry? Who are intended in the "Philander" and "Narcissa" of the Night Thoughts? What lines refer to Mrs. Temple's death? (note.) When were the Night Thoughts published? What is said of them? What does Johnson say? What compliment did Warton pay him? What did he publish in 1762? When die? What is said of him? What does Dr. Warton say? What of him as a poet? What of the influence of Night Thoughts? [Commit at pleasure.]

WILLIAM FALCONER, (p. 562.) When born? What of his early life? What his employment? On what does his fame rest? What else did he publish? What of his death? What of the "Shipwreck?"

CATHERINE TALBOT, (p. 566.)

In whose reigns did she flourish? Whose daughter? What of her early years? With whom did she form an intimate friendship? What of her character? When did she die? Her chief publications?

THOMAS CHATTERTON, (p. 570.) When born? Whose son? Where early educated? To whom bound an apprentice? When did he first attract attention? How? Whom did he endeavor to interest in himself and his poems? How succeed? When did he go to London? What were his prospects? How soon disappointed? When did he die? His chief poems? What does Campbell say of him? What Warton? (note.) What books to be read on the Rowleian controversy ?

MARK AKENSIDE, (p. 578.)

What of his rank as a poet? When born? Where? For what designed? What profession did he choose? Where go? What did he publish? What anecdote relating to the copyright? What of its success? What did he subsequently do? With what success? When die? What is said of the "Pleasures of the Imagination"? What is its object? How executed? What does Johnson say of it? What is said of his "revised" edition? [Commit on "Taste," &c.]

THOMAS GRAY, (p. 585.)

When born, and where ? Where educated? Where and with whom did he travel? Result? Whose fault? Where did he retire for study? What was his first production? What next? What in 1750? What of its success? What office was tendered to him? What did he publish the same year? What professorship was he called to in 1768? How discharge its duties? When did he die? What of his life? learning? Extent of his attainments? What rank as a poet? What does Mr. Matthias say of him? What of him as a man? What anecdote? What does Sir Egerton Brydges say? (note.) [Commit the "Elegy," and the "Progress of Poesy," and "Ode on the Prospect of Eton College."] What of his letters? What does Dr. Beattie say of them?

TOBIAS SMOLLET, (p. 606.)

Of his

In whose reigns did he flourish? What of his early life? What profession did he enter? When and where die? In what character is he chiefly to be viewed? What of his reputation in this character? What as an historian? What as a poet?

JOHN HAWKESWORTH, (p. 609.) What is said of his early life? His first literary effort? What did he project in 1752? How qualified? What success did it meet with? What does Drake say of him? What did he next do? What office in 1765? How did he fill it? Whose works did he publish? With what intrusted by govern. ment? How executed? Why censured? When did he die? What of his character? [Commit hymn.]

OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (p. 618.)

How distinguished? When born? Where? Where educated? College habits? To what in part owing? What did his uncle intend for him? What anecdote of his habits? Where did he go in 1752? For what purpose? How long remain? Why leave? Where did he go then? How long remain? Where travel, and how? What lines in the Traveller alluding thereto? What was his first literary engagement? What did he first publish? What next? What did he publish in 1760? What were they? (note.) What in 1766? What is said of it? What does Walter Scott say? (note.) Repeat the anecdote relating to its composition, (note.) What did he publish in 1764? What did Johnson say of it? What in 1765? What in 1768? What two years after? What was the criticism of Johnson? What was one of his last publications? When did he die? What effect of his death on his friends? What of his merits as a writer? What does Sir Walter Scott say? What impression does Boswell's Johnson give of him? (give the account in the note in full.) What anecdote connected with the lines in the Traveller, "By sports," &c.? (note on p. 622.) What does Campbell say of two lines on p. 624? What Johnson? What of his prose? What does Headley say of it? (note.) What did Johnson say? (note, p. 627.) [Commit at pleasure.]

DAVID HUME, (p. 635.)

For what celebrated? When and where born? What of his early employment? Did it agree with his taste? Where did he go for retirement to study? What did he first publish? How received? What next? For what is he now most known? When did he publish his History of England? What while it was in progress? When did he die? In what three characters to be viewed? What of him as an historian? As a political economist ? As a philosopher? Why does he not deserve the name of a philosopher? What of his death-bed? (note.)

WILLIAM PITT, (p. 639.)

In whose reigns did he flourish? When did he enter parliament? When and how die?

What of his public life? Why should Americans remember him with gratitude? With what sentiment had he no sympathy? What the most interesting relic we have of him? What is said of it? What does Lord Grenville say of it?

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, (p. 645.) When born? What of his education? What profession did he enter? What write? What success in his profession? Where go? What publish in 1765? Influence? What office did he hold? When die?

SAMUEL JOHNSON, (p. 647.) What styled? Why so? Where born? When? What often termed? In whose

reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What of his early indications? Why did he not remain the usual time at the university? What employment did he first seek? How unqualified for it? What next? What subsidiary assistance did he receive? What new project? Its success? Where did he go? What first publish? What did Pope say of it? What of his Irene? What his situation at this time? What publish in 1744? How received? What proof of its merit? (note.) What did he issue in 1747 ? What in 1749? When did he publish the Rambler? What of it? When did his Dictionary appear? How long in completing it? Anecdote of Chesterfield? [Commit lines of Garrick, and Letter to Chesterfield.] What did he next publish? Why not qualified for editing Shakspeare? What in 1759? Why? What receive in 1762? When introduced to Boswell? Results? Where did he go in 1777? What his opinion of Ossian's Poems? What was his last labor? What is said of it? What does Sir Egerton Brydges say of it? What incidents in his life in 1781 and 1782? Give the account of his approaching dissolution. When die? His characteristics? What of his conversation? What other qualities and peculiarities? What of him as a Christian? Anecdote of the Earl of Eglintoune? Remark of Goldsmith? (note.) [Commit at pleasure.]

MRS. GREVILLE, (p. 672.) What piece of hers has been much admired?

ROBERT LOWTH, (p. 673.)

In whose reign did he flourish? Where educated? What position in the English church did he hold? When die? What did he write? What of his Lectures on Hebrew Poetry? Remark of Gibbon? (note.) Remarks of Leigh Hunt, on the Utility of Poetry? (note.)

THOMAS WARTON, (p. 680.)

For what celebrated? What of his family? When born? Where educated? What did he first publish? To what professorship elected? What did he publish in 1774? What is said of it? What does Sir Egerton Brydges say of him? (note.) [Commit "The Hamlet."]

WILLIAM ROBERTSON, (p. 684.) How celebrated? When and where born? What of his early attainments? What profession did he enter? What did he first publish? What next? The merits of these works? Of what does the introduction of "Charles V." consist? What did he pub lish in 1777? When did he die? To what do most of his works relate? What of his style? What does Gibbon say of Robertson and Hume? (note.)

EDWARD GIBBON, (p. 688.) When born? What does he say of his lot?