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MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE General Editors: A. Norman Jeffares, formerly Professor of English, University of Stirling Michael Alexander, Berry Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Volume 1 THE MIDDLE AGES (700-1550) Michael Alexander and Felicity Riddy Volume 2 THE RENAISSANCE (1550-1660) Gordon Campbell Volume 3 THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660-1798) Ian McGowan Volume 4 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1798-1900) Brian Martin Volume 5 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-present) Neil McEwan MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE _______T HE _______ RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Edited by Ian McGowan M MACMILLAN Selection and editorial matter© Ian McGowan 1989 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended), or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1989 Published by MACMILLAN EDUCATION LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Typeset by Wessex Typesetters (Division of The Eastern Press Ltd) Frome, Somerset British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Macmillan anthologies of English literature Vol. 3: The Restoration and eighteenth century 1. English literature--Anthologies I. McGowan, Ian 820.8 ISBN 978-0-333-46478-6 ISBN 978-1-349-20143-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20143-3 v Contents Acknowledgements xu General Introduction xm Introduction: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century xv Note on Annotation and Glossing xxvm Note on Dates xxvm SAMUEL BUTLER 1 From Hudibras [The Character of the Hero] 1 JOHN AUBREY 8 From Brief Lives William Shakespeare 8 JOHN BUNYAN 10 From The Pilgrim,s Progress [Christian in Vanity Fair] 10 JOHN DRYDEN 18 Absalom and Achitophel 19 Mac Flecknoe 45 To the Memory of Mr Oldham 51 A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 52 Lines on Milton 54 To My Honoured Kinsman john Driden 55 From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy [Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared] 60 From Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy [Shakespeare's Language] 62 From Preface to Ovid,s Epistles [Translation] 63 From Discourse concerning Satire 64 From Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern [Chaucer] 65 SAMUEL PEPYS 67 From Diary [The Great Fire of London] 67 vi CONTENTS THOMAS SPRAT 72 From The History of the Royal Society [The Prose Style Sought by the Royal Society) 72 [Prospects of Scientific Discovery] 72 JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER 76 Satire, Were I (who to my cost already am) 76 WILLIAM DAMPIER 83 From A New Voyage Round the World [Australian Natives] 83 DANIEL DEFOE 85 From Robinson Crusoe [Shipwreck] 85 [Spiritual Awakening] 89 From Moll Flanders [Temptation] 93 JONATHAN SWIFT 98 From A Tale of a Tub [History of Christianity] 99 A Description of the Morning 108 A Description of a City Shower 108 From Gulliver's Travels [Gulliver arrives in Lilliput] 110 [Gulliver in Brobdingnag] 116 [Gulliver praises England to the King] 119 [The Immortals of Luggnagg] 122 [Houyhnhnms and Yahoos] 128 [Return to Civilisation?) 132 [Gulliver's Doubts] 136 A Modest Proposal 137 A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 145 From Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 147 WILLIAM CONGREVE 156 From The Way of the World [Marriage Conditions] 156 COLLEY GIBBER 166 From An Apology for the Life of Colley Gibber CONTENTS Vll [A Cheerful Dunce?] 166 [The Status of Actors] 168 SIR RICHARD STEELE 171 The Spectator, No. 2 [The Club] 172 JOSEPH ADDISON 171 The Spectator, No 70 [The Ballad] 176 The Spectator, No 74 [The Ballad, continued] 181 JOHN GAY 187 From The Beggar's Opera Act I 187 ALEXANDER POPE 205 From An Essay on Criticism [Poetic Technique] 206 From Windsor Forest [Order in Variety] 207 [Man's Victims] 208 The Rape of the Lock 209 Epistle to Miss Blount 230 From Eloisa to Abelard 232 Epistle II. To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women 236 Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 244 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU 256 From Letters [Turkish Women] 256 [Inoculation against Smallpox] 259 [Female Society in Turkey] 260 [Female Education] 265 SAMUEL RICHARDSON 269 From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded [An Attack] 269 PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 279 From Letters to his Natural Son [Polite Behaviour] 279 [How to Please People] 281 [Social Accomplishments] 284 Vlll CONTENTS JAMES THOMSON 287 The Seasons From Summer 287 From Winter 290 From The Castle of Indolence [The Land of Drowsyhed] 293 HENRY FIELDING 295 From Shame/a [True Confessions] 295 From Joseph Andrews [Good Neighbours] 298 From Tom Jones [Caught in the Act) 304 SAMUEL JOHNSON 310 The Vanity of Human Wishes 311 The Rambler, No 4 [Morality in Fiction] 321 From Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language 325 From Rasselas A Dissertation on the Art of Flying 329 A Dissertation upon Poetry 332 From Preface to Edition of Shakespeare 334 From General Note on King Lear 343 From A Journey to the Western Islands [Highland Scenery] 344 From Letters To Earl of Chesterfield 346 To James Macpherson 347 To Revd William Dodd 347 From Prayers and Meditations September 176 4 348 Easter 1777 348 From The Lives of the Poets [The Metaphysical Poets] 349 [Milton's Politics] 352 [Lycidas] 352 [Paradise Lost] 353 [Pope and Dryden Compared] 360 [Gray's Poetry] 364 CONTENTS IX To Sir John Lade, on his Coming of Age 367 On the Death of Dr Robert Levet 368 LAURENCE STERNE 370 From Tristram Shandy [Begetting] 370 [Time and Distance] 374 [Hobby-Horse] 375 From A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy Paris 379 THOMAS GRAY 384 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 384 Sonnet on the Death of Mr Richard West 387 Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 388 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 389 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode 394 From Journal in the Lake District, 1769 398 HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD 401 From Letters [Pomp and Piety] 401 [Wild Nature] 403 [Burial of King George II] 404 TOBIAS SMOLLETI 407 From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker [The Pleasures of Bath and London] 407 [A Domestic Epistle] 413 CHRISTOPHER SMART 415 From Jubilate Agno [My CatJeoffry] 415 From A Song to David [God's Creation] 418 [Adoration] 420 ADAM SMITH 428 From The Wealth of Nations [The Division of Labour] 428

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