|
Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Bishop John Pearson.
1612–1686. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
| The True Notion of Saints |
| John Evelyn.
1620–1706. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Foreign Travel |
| Public Employment |
| The Work of the Royal Society |
| The Groans of the Forest |
| The Great Fire |
| Ill Government of the Navy |
| Mr. Samuel Pepys |
| A Funeral Sermon |
| Andrew Marvell.
1621–1678. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| Jocular Divinity |
| Algernon Sidney.
1623–1683. |
Critical Introduction by F. H. Trench |
| The Degradation of Italy |
| The Wisdom of Flexible Constitutions |
| The Virtues of Liberty |
| Folly of Hereditary Kingship |
| The Right to Change Rulers |
| The Basis of Social Order |
| The Invisible King |
| George Fox.
1624–1691. |
Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
| A Sense of the Blood of Martyrs |
| A Youthful Martyr |
| A Man of a Tender Conscience |
| An Appeal |
| Greeting to Charles II. on his Restoration |
| Robert Boyle.
1627–1691. |
Critical Introduction by G. S. Street |
| The Value of Natural Philosophy |
| The Holy Scriptures |
| An Experiment |
| The Writing of a Romance |
| John Bunyan.
1628–1688. |
Critical Introduction by H. C. Beeching |
| The Story of Bunyan’s Conversion |
| Christian Loses his Roll |
| The Trial of Christian and Faithful |
| Mr. By-ends |
| Christiana’s Neighbours |
| Letters to and from Diabolus |
| Sir William Temple.
1628–1699. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Temple on his Way to Munster |
| The Garden of Moor Park in Hertfordshire |
| Peroration on Poetry |
| The Limits of Human Faculties |
| John Ray.
1627–1705. |
Critical Introduction by Norman Moore |
| An Argument of Providence |
| Hurling |
| Isaac Barrow.
1630–1677. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| As we would be done by |
| The Kingdom of Heaven |
| The Silence of History and Tradition on the Pope’s Supremacy |
| John Tillotson.
1630–1694. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Scattered Thoughts upon several Subjects and Occasions |
| Of Society and Vanity |
| John Dryden.
1631–1700. |
Critical Introduction by W. J. Courthope |
| A Defence of Rhyme in Tragedy |
| Abandonment of Rhyme in Tragedy: Imitation of Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare. Beaumont and Fletcher. Ben Jonson |
| The Old Dramatists and the New |
| The Wits of King Charles II.’s Days |
| An Apology for The Duke of Guise |
| Dryden and his Critics |
| Dryden and Collier |
| Chaucer |
| Religio Laici |
| His Old Age |
| Anthony Wood.
1632–1695. |
Critical Introduction by F. H. Trench |
| Ancient Oxford |
| The King’s Coming to Oxon |
| The Author of Oceana |
| John Locke.
1632–1704. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Perception |
| The Greater Good does not Determine the Will |
| Adam’s Monarchy |
| Force without Right, a State of War |
| The Proper Qualities for a Tutor |
| School Verses |
| Prose Style |
| To Mr. Molyneux, 1693 |
| To Mr. Molyneux, 1694 |
| Bishop Richard Cumberland.
1631–1718. |
Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
| Providence in the Conquest of Canaan |
| The Primitive Arcadians called Pelasgi |
| The Egyptian Standard in the Time of Joseph |
| George Savile,
Marquis of Halifax.
1633–1695. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
| Liberty, and the English Constitution |
| Truth and Trimmers |
| Concluding Considerations on the Character of Charles II. |
| On the Treatment of Children |
| Samuel Pepys.
1633–1703. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| Sir C. Mings |
| The Fire |
| Epsom Downs |
| Robert South.
1634–1716. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The Happiness of Adam |
| Of the Light within us |
| The Loss of Shame |
| The ultima ratio of Belief |
| Thomas Burnet.
1635?–1715. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund Gosse |
| The Deluge |
| Paradise |
| The Conflagration |
| Edward Stillingfleet.
1635–1699. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
| The Judgment of Fire |
| Fools make a Mock at Sin |
| Knowledge and Names |
| Sir George Mackenzie.
1636–1691. |
Critical Introduction by W. A. Raleigh |
| A Defence of Romances |
| Why Man Fell |
| Thomas Sprat.
1635–1713. |
Critical Introduction by W. A. Raleigh |
| A Simple and an Ornate Style |
| The Error of Extempore Prayer and Preaching |
| The Defence of English Eloquence and Letters |
| Thomas Ken.
1637–1711. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
| Daniel, a Man Greatly Beloved |
| God’s Blessing on the Baths |
| Thomas Ellwood.
1639–1713. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| An Adventure |
| Thomas Rymer.
1641–1713. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| A Tragedy called the “Invincible Armado” |
| William and Thomas Sherlock |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| William Sherlock.
1641?–1707. |
Preparation for Death a Cure for Fear of Death |
| Conscience Powerful and Impotent |
| Thomas Sherlock.
1678–1761. |
The Responsibility of Parents |
| The Resurrection and Evidence |
| Sir Isaac Newton.
1642–1727. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
| On the Belief in a God |
| Gilbert Burnet.
1643–1715. |
Critical Introduction by F. C. Montague |
| The National Blessing of Religion |
| The Character of William III. |
| The Character of Sir Matthew Hale |
| William Penn.
1644–1718. |
Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
| An Exhortation |
| A Plea for Toleration |
| Edward Browne.
1644–1708. |
Critical Introduction by Norman Moore |
| Unicorns’ Horns |
| The Emperor Leopoldus |
| Andrew Fletcher
of Saltoun.
1655–1716. |
Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
| Love of Country |
| Enslavement of Vagabonds |
| The Origin of Beggary |
| Daniel Defoe.
1661?–1731. |
Critical Introduction by John W. Hales |
| An Academy for Women |
| Selfish Preachers of Toleration |
| A Footprint |
| Richard Bentley.
1662–1742. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| An Apology for Resentment |
| The Commonplaces of Scepticism |
| Captious Arguments answered |
| Flattery of Epicurus |
| Jonathan Swift.
1667–1745. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Dedication: to the Right Honourable John Lord Somers |
| The Epistle Dedicatory, to His Royal Highness Prince Posterity |
| The Philosophy of Clothes |
| A Digression concerning Critics |
| Sweetness and Light |
| Political Lying |
| Arguments of Weight |
| Ireland an Independent Kingdom |
| Irish Misery |
| The Emperor of Lilliput |
| The King of Brobdingnag inquires into the State of Europe |
| True and False Raillery |
| John Arbuthnot.
1667–1735. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Newton’s Discovery |
| Mother Church |
| Sister Peg |
| Physical Philosophy |
| A Farewell Letter |
| Bernard Mandeville.
1670–1733. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The Genesis of Vanity |
| Diamond cut Diamond |
| Gin |
| A Parable of Small Beer |
| Lord Shaftesbury.
1671–1713. |
Critical Introduction by E. K. Chambers |
| On Enthusiasm |
| The Pleasure of the Natural Affections |
| Francis Atterbury.
1662–1732. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Waller’s Influence on Style |
| To the House of Lords |
| The Uses of Harmony |
| To his Daughter |
| Richard Steele.
1672–1729. |
Critical Introduction by Austin Dobson |
| Mr. Bickerstaff Visits a Friend |
| Recollections of Childhood |
| The Story of Brunetta and Phillis |
| The Coverley Portrait Gallery |
| The Story of Alexander Selkirk |
| Joseph Addison.
1672–1719. |
Critical Introduction by W. J. Courthope |
| The Spectator and its Purpose |
| To see Ourselves as Others see Us |
| The Spectator’s anticipation of the Verdict of Posterity |
| The Royal Exchange |
| Head-dresses |
| Hoods |
| Will. Wimble |
| Sir Roger de Coverley at the Play |
| The News at the Club of Sir Roger de Coverley’s Death |
| The Visions of Mirzah |
| The Various Kinds of Wit |
| Imagination and Science |
| Samuel Clarke.
1675–1729. |
Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
| Arguments to the Being of God |
| On Human Fallibility |
| On the Necessity of Morality in Religion |
| On Hypocrites |
| Paraphrase of Matthew XXVI. |
| Benjamin Hoadly.
1676–1761. |
Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
| The Simplicity of Christianity spoilt by Additions |
| On the Ecclesiasticism of the Church of England |
| Upon Political Jealousies |
| Henry St. John,
Viscount Bolingbroke.
1678–1751. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| The Uses of History |
| Eloquence |
| Discarded Service |
| A Religion of Hypocrisy |
| Alexander Pope.
1688–1744. |
Critical Introduction by W. J. Courthope |
| Letter to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Letter to Mrs. Martha Blount |
| Letter to the Bishop of Rochester |
| Letter to Swift |
| Letter to the Earl of Burlington |
| Shakespeare |
| Dedications |
| Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu.
1689–1762. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
| Ideals |
| The Fair Fatima |
| The Arnaöut Religion |
| Self-restraint |
| Among the Italian Lakes |
| As Proud as the Marchioness Lyscinnia |
| John, Lord Hervey.
1696–1743. |
Critical Introduction by G. S. Street |
| The Character of Bolingbroke |
| The Death of Queen Caroline |
