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228. What does he say of the power of truth to defend itself?

229. What does he say of the strength of truth?

230. Of what does truth have no need?

231. What may be said of Milton's ideas of education?

232. What does he say when writing about the study of languages?

233. Describe the character and manners of Sir Matthew Hale. 234. What were his maxims concerning conversation?

235. Describe the character and attainments of Isaac Barrow.

236. In what did his eloquence chiefly consist?

237. What can be said of his language, and of his mode of interesting his readers?

238. Give a synopsis of the extract in which he shows the contrast between concord and discord.

239. How does he show the value of industry?

240. Describe the character and style of Izaak Walton.

241. On what subjects did he write?

242. Which of his works has attracted most attention?

243. What are the peculiarities of this book?

244. What were some of the reflections awakened in him by the songs of the birds?

245. How does he find cause for gratitude and praise in the daily blessings which the poorest and humblest of mankind may enjoy ?

246. How does he beget content in himself, and increase his confidence in the power, wisdom, and providence of God? 247. What may be said of the birth and advantages of John Bunyan?

248. What did he do that has given him a place among the best authors in the land?

249. Under what circumstances was the book written?

250. While in prison, what was he obliged to do to keep his family from want?

251. What does Macaulay say concerning the originality of Bunyan's book, and of the manner in which it was received by his friends?

252. What does the same writer say concerning the success of "Pilgrim's Progress"?

253. What does he point out as the causes of this success?

254. What were critics obliged to grant Bunyan?

255. Although deprived of the advantages of schools, what training had Bunyan received which fitted him so well for the work which he accomplished?

256. Describe the language of "Pilgrim's Progress.'

257. Why does it reach the hearts of people so surely?

258. What does Henry Morley say of it?

259. How does Thomas B. Shaw account for Bunyan's remark

able gift in language?

260. Describe the character and labors of Richard Baxter:

261. What does he say concerning the cause of his writing so much and so rapidly.?

262. What good qualities cause us to forget the blemishes of his style, and to pass leniently over some of his extreme views?

263. Which of his books is most read at the present time?

264. Under what circumstances was it written?

265. Which of his works was much liked by Dr. Johnson? 266. What may be said of Baxter's sincerity?

267. What did Coleridge say of him?

268. How did Baxter manifest courage equal to his sincerity? 269. How did the judge interrupt him when he attempted to speak in self-defense?

270. What spirit did Baxter manifest throughout all these persecutions?

271. How does he express himself concerning theological controversies?

272. How may Tillotson be compared with Barrow ?

273. What was the character of his sermons ?

274. What were some of the adverse effects of this extreme

familiarity?

275. What secured him many friends?

276. To what were his efforts directed throughout his public life? 277. What does Chambers say of Tillotson's style?

278. What excellences do you notice in the quoted paragraph concerning the evidence of a Creator in the structure of the world?

279. Repeat his illustrations.

280. Fulfil the same requirements concerning the other two paragraphs quoted from this author.

281. What is the subject of Milton's great epic?

282. What objections do some raise against this apparent exaltation of the evil one?

283. What other feature of this great poem has been unfavorably criticized?

284. What is the best cure for these objections?

285. Does any one think that there was conscious irreverence in the mind of Milton?

286. What might have exercised some influence over him unawares ?

287. What may be said of his " Hymn to the Nativity”?

288. What of "Lycidas"?

289. What may be said of the "Mask of Comus "?

290. Point out the beauties and excellences in the selections

herein quoted?

291. What may be said of Milton's lofty style?

292. What is the character of some of his sentences?

293. Who, next to Milton, was the greatest poet of the age?

294. Why did he fail to realize the best of which he was capable ? 295. In what degrading work was his noble genius mostly

occupied ?

296. What reputation did this low work earn for him?

297. How did Dryden feel about this toward the close of his life? 298. When Collier wrote against the immorality of Dryden's plays,

how did Dryden reply?

299. How did Dryden rank as a prose-writer?

300. What good things may be said of his poetry?

301. What has been said in commendation of Dryden, his poetry,

and his language?

302. What did he say about the free use of foreign derivatives? 303. What has John Locke been called?

304. How did he differ from some other philosophers ?

305. What is regarded as his greatest work?

306. What was the character of his thought, and of his style

of writing?

307. What is the title of another of his valuable works?

308. In what terms of extravagant praise does Mr. Shaw speak of

this work?

309. How would a thoughtful reader of the present time be likely to regard this estimate?

310. What unfavorable criticisms may justly be made upon the essay?

311. What work of a religious character did he write?

312. Why did he have to spend much of his time in foreign countries ?

313. What may be said in praise of Locke's character and life? 314. How does he set forth the evils of prejudices ?

315. What does he prescribe as a remedy?

316. Give the substance of his remarks on injudicious haste in study.

317. Describe the character and attainments of Sir Isaac Newton.

318. What great law of nature did he discover?

319. How did the discovery affect him at first?

320. How did Newton make discoveries in optics?

321. What were among these discoveries?

322. What has been said concerning the thoroughness of his

researches ?

323. How did he treat the Bible, and on what portions of it did he write?

324. Who were the most noted historical writers of the century? 325. What did they write?

326. What may be said of the character of Burnet and his

writings ?

327. How was Horace Walpole impressed by reading Burnet? 328. What writers of considerable note have not been mentioned in this brief outline of the literature of the seventeenth century?

329. What is the purpose of this outline?

330. What would be the effect of entering into details?

331. What is the poetry of any period sufficient to do? 332. Why do we need something more?

333. How may prose be regarded?

334. What must be borne in mind with reference to the chronology of the writings described in this chapter ?

335. What, with reference to the history of the period?

336. What will these considerations enable us to understand and feel?

337. What must be kept in mind with respect to the overlapping and blending of the writings of one century with those of another ?

CHAPTER SEVEN.

Literature of the Eighteenth Century.

338. What may be said of the literature of the eighteenth century? 339. To what extent can it be considered here?

340. When were the authors born who wrote most and best during the first half of the eighteenth century?

341. Tell how old some of these writers were at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

342. What distinguished writers followed these, or were contemporary with them?

343. With what view have these writers been chosen?

344. How is the literature of any period much affected?

345. What influences tended to degrade the literature of the period now under consideration?

346. By what was the same period blessed ?

347. What may be said of the great body of the people, especially those who were remote from London ?

348. What commotions agitated the country during this century? 349. What had been going on during all this turmoil?

350. What may be said in praise of Dryden's poetry?

351. What change took place in English poetry during the first part of the eighteenth century?

352. What were its defects?

353. What poem of the time was most praised, and what may be

said of it?

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