|
Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Francis Bacon.
1561–1626. |
Critical Introduction by William Minto |
| Letter to Lord Burghley in 1591 |
| Of Studies |
| Of Marriage and Single Life |
| Of Vainglory |
| Of Building |
| On the Vanity of Words without Matter |
| Of the True Greatness of a State |
| The Character of Henry VII. |
| The Duties of Judges of Assize |
| The Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury |
| A Haven after Storm |
| On the Transmission of Immateriate Virtues |
| John Hayward.
1564?–1627. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Difficulties in Reign of Edward VI. |
| The Protector Somerset and His Brother |
| Public Fears |
| Queen Elizabeth |
| The Jesuits |
| James VI. and I.
1566–1625. |
Critical Introduction by William S. M’Cormick |
| On the Education of a Prince |
| Tobacco and Good Manners |
| John Spottiswoode.
1565–1639. |
Critical Introduction by James Miller Dodds |
| The Execution of Queen Mary |
| The Adventures of Mr. John Craig |
| Sir Henry Wotton.
1568–1639. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
| How to Meet the Turk |
| To Sir Edmund Bacon |
| John Donne.
1572–1631. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Occasional Mercies |
| Salvation |
| The Arithmetic of Sin |
| Death |
| To My Very True and Very Good Friend, Sir Henry Goodyere |
| Ben Jonson.
1572–1637. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
| De Malignitate Studentium |
| De Bonis et Malis—De Innocentia |
| Notæ Domini S. Albani de Doctrinæ Intemperantia |
| Samuel Purchas.
1577?–1626. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| Of the Hill Amara and the Rarities therein |
| Sir Thomas Overbury.
1581–1613. |
Critical Introduction by William S. M’Cormick |
| An Affectate Traveller |
| A Mere Fellow of an House |
| A Roaring Boy |
| A Franklin |
| Robert Burton.
1577–1640. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Democritus His Utopia |
| Love of Solitude |
| Of Repulse |
| Charity, the Want of It |
| Joseph Hall.
1574–1656. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| To the High and Mighty Monarch James |
| Mediation in Church Controversies |
| Besieged in His Palace |
| Balaam and the Ass |
| To My Reverend Brethren of the Diocese of Norwich |
| The Christian’s Disposition |
| Undutiful Sons |
| Weary Loquacity |
| James Ussher.
1581–1656. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
| Of Purgatory, and Prayer for the Dead |
| John Selden.
1584–1654. |
Critical Introduction by William S. M’Cormick |
| A Scholar’s Defence |
| The First Payment of Tithes in England |
| Measure of Things |
| Opinion |
| Logic and Rhetoric |
| Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
1583–1648. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Paris |
| John Hales.
1584–1656. |
Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
| All Differences Do Not Involve Schism |
| False Proofs |
| William Drummond of Hawthornden.
1585–1649. |
Critical Introduction by William S. M’Cormick |
| A Reverie on Death |
| George Herbert.
1593–1633. |
Critical Introduction by Alfred Ainger |
| The Parson Preaching |
| The Parson on Sundays |
| Thomas Hobbes.
1588–1679. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The Causes of Mutual Fear |
| The State of War |
| Natural Religion |
| The Race |
| Love |
| The Inconveniences of Government |
| How the Presbyterians Grew Strong |
| Thomas May.
1594/5–1650. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
| The Argument of His History |
| Strafford |
| The Queen Mother |
| The Battle of Edgehill |
| James Howell.
c. 1594–1666. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The Murder of Buckingham |
| The White Bird |
| Howell’s Sabbath Devotions |
| The Pied Piper |
| Wines |
| Peter Heylyn.
1599–1662. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Fuller as an Historian |
| A Royal Progress |
| Strafford and the King |
| John Knox |
| William Chillingworth.
1602–1644. |
Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
| Scripture Intelligible |
| Faith and Understanding |
| Samuel Rutherford.
1600?–1661. |
Critical Introduction by James Miller Dodds |
| Flight No Lawful Means of Escape for an Oppressed People |
| Letter to Jean Brown |
| Violent and Natural Death |
| John Earle.
1601?–1665. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
| A Pretender to Learning |
| A Sceptic in Religion |
| A Vulgar-Spirited Man |
| Owen Felltham.
1602?–1668. |
Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
| A Friend and Enemy, When Most Dangerous |
| Of Preaching |
| Description of a Dutch House |
| Sir Kenelm Digby.
1603–1665. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| An Extract from a Ship’s Log |
| The Maxims of Self-Contentment |
| The Soul’s Excellence |
| Sir Thomas Urquhart.
1611–1660. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Doctor Seaton |
| The Design of the Third Book, Entituled Cleronomaporia |
| Sir Thomas Browne.
1605–1682. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Part of Address to Reader |
| Of Griffins |
| Faith in Mysteries |
| A Providence in Fortune |
| Of the Nature of Angels |
| The Soul Illimitable |
| Sleep |
| The Vanity of Ambition |
| Imagination Sweetens Life |
| Something to Be Loved in All |
| Walk Not with Leaden Sandals |
| Temperance in Pleasure |
| The Limits of Felicity |
| Un-man Not Thyself |
| Izaak Walton.
1593–1683. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund Gosse |
| What We Owe to the Birds |
| Angling an Art |
| The Otter Hunt |
| The Milkmaid’s Song |
| The Blessing of Content |
| A Vision |
| George Herbert at Bemerton |
| Dr. Sanderson at Boothby Pannel |
| Lucy Hutchinson.
1620–1681. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| Lambert, 1659 |
| Bulstrode Whitelocke.
1605–1675. |
Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
| Ship Money |
| A Conference with the King |
| The Trial of the King |
| Thomas Fuller.
1608–1661. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The Natural Commodities of Hampshire |
| John of Trevisa and Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Good Yeoman |
| Ejaculations: Their Privilege |
| An Ill Match |
| The Imprisonment and Ransom of King Richard |
| Fuller’s Farewell to Exeter on the Eve of Its Surrender |
| Edward Hyde,
Lord Clarendon.
1609–1674. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| The Death of Strafford |
| The City of London |
| Character of Hampden |
| Character of Lord Falkland |
| Character of Charles I. |
| Character of Cromwell |
| Clarendon’s Early Friends |
| Clarendon’s Early Manhood |
| Character of Himself |
| Fealty against Conscience |
| Hopes of Peace Frustrated |
| Causes of the Corruption Which Followed the Restoration |
| The Stuart Family |
| Clarendon’s Letter to the King |
| John Milton.
1608–1674. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
| The Deliverance of England |
| Not the Praise, but the Cause |
| Himself a True Poem |
| The New Inquisition |
| The Search after Truth |
| The Punishment of Tyrants |
| The King’s Misgovernment |
| Justice above the King |
| Persecution, Papist and Protestant |
| A Perpetual Grand Council of the Nation |
| Robert Leighton.
1611–1684. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
| The Flower of the Grass |
| The Vanity of Life |
| Life and Death |
| David and Solomon: Their Experience of Life |
| Renunciation |
| The Comfort of Belief |
| The Inheritance |
| Spiritual Sunshine |
| James Harrington.
1611–1677. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The Political Wisdom of Girls |
| The Case for the Agrarian |
| The Speech of the Lord Epimonus de Garrula |
| Inequality in Commonwealths |
| Samuel Butler.
1612–1680. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| A Rabble |
| An Opinionater |
| A Rebel |
| An Hector |
| Jeremy Taylor.
1613–1667. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
| Holiness the Way to Knowledge |
| The Responsibilities of a Bishop |
| Of Contentedness in All Estates and Accidents |
| Of the Practice of Patience |
| On Set Forms of Liturgy |
| On Difference of Opinion |
| Bishop John Wilkins.
1614–1672. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| A Journey to the Moon Possible |
| Authority of the Ancients |
| Motion of the Earth Possible |
| Henry More.
1614–1687. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
| The Dream of Bathynous |
| The Obscurity of the Christian Religion |
| Design in the Animal World |
| Richard Baxter.
1615–1691. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
| The Knowledge of God |
| The Heart in Heaven |
| Abraham Cowley.
1618–1667. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
| The Use of Leisure |
| A Small Thing, but Mine Own |
| A Maxim Criticised |
| Poetry as a Mistress |
| Ralph Cudworth.
1617–1688. |
Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
| On the Incorporeality of the Deity |
| Against Arbitrary Decrees |
| On the Exercise of the Will |
| On Christ’s Christianity |
| Sir Roger L’Estrange.
1616–1704. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
| The Fox and the Raven |
| The Daw and Borrowed Plumes |
| The Fox and the Sick Lion |
| The Ape and the Dolphin |
