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indications.
My chief aim, however, will show itself to have been the mediating towards an intelligent and cordial sympathy betwixt my readers and the writers from whom I have quoted. In this I have some confidence of success.
Heartily do I throw this my small pebble at the head of the great Sabbath-breaker Schism.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I.
SACRED LYRICS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER II.
THE MIRACLE PLAYS, AND OTHER POEMS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER III.
THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER IV.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ELIZABETHAN ERA.
CHAPTER V.
SPENSER AND HIS FRIENDS.
CHAPTER VI.
LORD BACON AND HIS COEVALS.
CHAPTER VII.
DR. DONNE.
CHAPTER VIII.
BISHOP HALL AND GEORGE SANDYS.
CHAPTER IX.
A FEW OF THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS.
CHAPTER X.
SIR JOHN BEAUMONT AND DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN.
CHAPTER XI.
THE BROTHERS FLETCHER.
CHAPTER XII.
WITHER, HERRICK, AND QUARLES.
CHAPTER XIII.
GEORGE HERBERT.
CHAPTER XIV.
JOHN MILTON.
CHAPTER XV.
EDMUND WALLER, THOMAS BROWN, AND JEREMY TAYLOR.
CHAPTER XVI.
HENRY MORE AND RICHARD BAXTER.
CHAPTER XVII.
CRASHAW AND MARVELL.
CHAPTER XVIII.
A MOUNT OF VISION--HENRY VAUGHAN.
CHAPTER XIX.
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