|
Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Conyers Middleton.
1683–1750. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The First Triumvirate |
| Letter to Venn |
| A Defence of Free Enquiry in Religion |
| George Berkeley.
1685–1753. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The Advantages of Immaterialism |
| The Virtues of Vice |
| The Delusions of Sense |
| The Pebble Argument answered by Anticipation |
| William Law.
1686–1761. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
| Confirmation |
| Character of Ouranius |
| The Fall of Adam |
| The Atonement |
| Divine Knowledge |
| Samuel Richardson.
1689–1761. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
| Miss Clarissa Harlowe to Miss Howe |
| Mr. Lovelace to John Belford, Esq. |
| Mr. Lovelace to John Belford, Esq. |
| Mr. Belford to Robert Lovelace, Esq. |
| Joseph Butler.
1692–1752. |
Critical Introduction by James Bonar |
| The Habit of Casual Reading |
| Actions Natural and Unnatural |
| Self-love and Appetites |
| Providence punishes Vice, and mitigates the Punishment |
| The Argument from Probability in Religion |
| The Practical Rule of Conduct |
| The Burden of Much Talking |
| Lord Chesterfield.
1694–1773. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Manners makyth Man |
| The Falsehood of Commonplaces |
| A Good and a Bad Style |
| Voltaire |
| William Warburton.
1698–1779. |
Critical Introduction by W. Macneile Dixon |
| Language helped by Action |
| How to meet Attacks |
| God’s Moral Government |
| John Wesley.
1703–1791. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
| A Man of One Book |
| On Dress |
| On the Results of Methodism |
| Henry Fielding.
1707–1754. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| The Passengers to Hades |
| Poet and Player |
| A Political Microcosm |
| Partridge on Valour |
| Paternal Advice |
| Mrs. Francis of Ryde |
| The Give-and-Take of Friendship |
| The Qualifications of the Historian |
| Samuel Johnson.
1709–1784. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Critics |
| Good Humour |
| Pedantry |
| Travellers’ Affectations |
| Praises of Solitude |
| Conversation |
| Style |
| English Literature |
| The Flying Machine |
| Poetry |
| A Life according to Nature |
| The Loss of a Friend |
| Metaphysical Poets |
| Milton |
| Religious Poetry |
| Dryden as Critic |
| A Digression |
| A Task completed |
| Letter to Lord Chesterfield |
| David Hume.
1711–1776. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
| A Defence of Philosophy |
| King and Parliament |
| Character of Himself |
| Where Philosophy is helpless |
| The State’s Interest in Stored Labour |
| Reason no Aid to Religion |
| Laurence Sterne.
1713–1768. |
Critical Introduction by H. D. Traill |
| My Uncle Toby’s Siege Operations |
| The Death of Bobby |
| Corporal Trim and the Curate |
| Tristram and the Ass |
| A Franciscan Monk |
| Thomas Gray.
1716–1771. |
Critical Introduction by John W. Hales |
| To Grasmere |
| By Ingleborough to Gordale Scar |
| Netley Abbey |
| A Sunrise |
| Horace Walpole.
1717–1797. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| A Summary of the Progress of Taste |
| Hogarth’s Genius |
| Character of Pitt |
| Alpine Scenery: The Grande Chartreuse |
| The War: Burke |
| Old Age: France: Madame D’Arblay |
| Gilbert White.
1720–1793. |
Critical Introduction by Norman Moore |
| Migration of Birds |
| Miscellaneous Observations |
| On the Flight of Birds |
| The Fern-Owl |
| The Rook |
| Tobias Smollett.
1721–1771. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Roderick at Surgeon’s Hall |
| Sir Launcelot in the Madhouse |
| The Cheerful Society of Bath |
| William Robertson.
1721–1793. |
Critical Introduction by William Wallace |
| The Death of Rizzio |
| The Reformation |
| The Feudal System |
| Resignation of a Crown |
| Columbus nearing Land |
| Montezuma |
| Richard Price.
1723–1791. |
Critical Introduction by J. Bonar |
| Do our Faculties deceive us? |
| The Effects of Custom |
| The Vision of the World |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds.
1723–1792. |
Critical Introduction by Reginald Brimley Johnson |
| Michael Angelo |
| Maxims of Art |
| Beauty |
| Johnson against Garrick |
| Adam Smith.
1723–1790. |
Critical Introduction by J. Bonar |
| Humour |
| The Aspect of Nature to the Savage |
| How Art produces its Effects |
| Remorse |
| The Supreme Tribunal of Conduct |
| Power sacrificed to Selfishness |
| Public Benefit promoted by Individual Aims |
| Thomas Warton.
1728–1790. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Feudalism |
| Chaucer’s House of Fame |
| Gower’s Mistakes |
| Chatterton’s Forgeries |
| Mediæval Imitations of the Classics |
| A Flood of Classicism |
| The Elizabethan Age |
| Oliver Goldsmith.
1730–1774. |
Critical Introduction by Austin Dobson |
| A City Night-piece |
| The Strolling Player |
| The Man in Black |
| Beau Tibbs at Home |
| Beau Tibbs at Vauxhall |
| The Family of Wakefield |
| Family Misfortunes |
| Dedication of The Deserted Village |
| Edmund Burke.
1729–1797. |
Critical Introduction by W. Macneile Dixon |
| The True Policy of Great Britain towards her American Colonies |
| Defence of his Political Conduct |
| Liberty |
| The Mistaken Methods, and the Resulting Crimes of the French Revolution |
| The Rights of Man |
| The End of the Age of Chivalry |
| The Tendency of Democracy to excess in the Exercise, and in the Desire, of Power |
| The Rights of the Majority |
| The Duke of Bedford’s Censure on the Bounty of the Crown |
| The House of Lords and Warren Hastings |
| William Cowper.
1731–1800. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
| Mr. Village to Mr. Town |
| A Visit from a Candidate |
| Mr. Newton as Inquisitor |
| Beau and the Water-Lily |
| Joseph Priestley.
1733–1804. |
Critical Introduction by J. Bonar |
| Of Correction |
| Ridicule as a Test of Faith |
| Effects of a Code of Education |
| Samuel Horsley.
1733–1806. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
| The Platonic and Christian Trinity |
| The Water and the Blood |
| The Heathen Poet and the Bible |
| Edward Gibbon.
1737–1794. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Constantius at Rome |
| The Diet of the Tartars |
| The Battle of Châlons |
| Justinian’s Code |
| The Moslem Capture of Aleppo and Antioch |
| Byzantine Literature |
| Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Finale |
| James Boswell.
1740–1795. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| The Pains and Pleasures of Authorship |
| To Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| Boswell’s Introduction to Johnson |
| Oliver Goldsmith |
| Johnson’s Peculiarities of Manner |
| Johnson’s Interview with the King |
| Clear your Mind of Cant |
| William Paley.
1743–1805. |
Critical Introduction by J. Bonar |
| A Popular Maxim Examined |
| Saint Paul |
| The Advantage of Proofs for the Being of God |
| Henry Mackenzie.
1745–1831. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
| Old Edwards and the Press-gang |
| Miss Homespun and My Lady |
| Mackenzie on Burns |
| Hannah More.
1745–1833. |
Critical Introduction by Reginald Brimley Johnson |
| Profession and Practice |
| A Religious Family |
| The Marriage Market |
| A Natural Philosopher |
| A Plain Man on his Daughter’s Favourite Novels |
| Dress and Literature |
| The Art of Conversation |
| Jeremy Bentham.
1748–1832. |
Critical Introduction by F. C. Montague |
| The Point at which Resistance becomes a Duty incapable of Definition |
| Government by Generalization |
| Frances (Fanny) Burney
(Madame d’Arblay).
1752–1840. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars |
| Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars |
| Mr. Villars to Evelina |
| Evelina to Miss Mirvan |
| A Man of the Ton |
| Pride and Prejudice |
| Dugald Stewart.
1753–1828. |
Critical Introduction by J. Bonar |
| The Desire of Esteem |
| The Use and Abuse of General Principles in Politics |
| The Imagination in Science |
| William Beckford.
1760–1844. |
Critical Introduction by W. J. Garnett |
| A Dream in Kent |
| The Court of the Queen of Portugal |
| William Cobbett.
1763–1835. |
Critical Introduction by J. Bonar |
| Why Leave England? |
| The Crown Grub |
| The King’s English |
| Early Rising |
| Air and Exercise |
| Sir James
Mackintosh.
1765–1832. |
Critical Introduction by J. Bonar |
| The Age of Chivalry is Gone |
| The Right of Rebellion |
| Freedom of Speech |
| Isaac Disraeli.
1766–1848. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Dennis the Critic |
| Genius |
| The Playthings of Philosophers |
| Maria Edgeworth.
1768–1849. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
| Types of Irish Landlords |
| The Hibernian Mendicant |
| The Bore |
