III. I. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Equestrian Portrait of Chaucer A page from the мs. of Beowulf in the British Museum Frontispiece PAGE 6 12 From the metrical romance of "Richard Coeur de Lion" 26 32 Canterbury Cathedral 43 Canterbury Pilgrims. From a мs. in the British Museum From Vischer's View of London: showing St. Paul's Cathedral William Shakespeare, full-page portrait Shakespeare's Birthplace Table of Shakespeare's Plays Title-page of the First Quarto of "Hamlet" Title-page of the First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays The Parish Church, Stratford-on-Avon A Typical Shakespearian Stage. Francis Bacon, from his "Posthumous Works," 1657 Trinity College, Cambridge, in the time of Milton Title-page of Milton's "Areopagitica" Bunyan's Dream, from 1680 ed. of "Pilgrim's Progress" Alexander Pope, full-page portrait 167 170 Title-page of Milton's “Paradise Lost," First Edition, 1667 174 185 187 203 Richardson reading the мs. of "Sir Charles Grandison" to his friends From Hogarth's "A Conversation Piece" Dr. Johnson Dressed for the Journey to the Hebrides Oliver Goldsmith, full-page portrait Stoke Pogis Church, showing the Tomb of Gray Horace Walpole's Library at Strawberry Hill The Birthplace of Robert Burns William Wordsworth, full-page portrait Illustration by George Cruikshank to "Oliver Twist" Robert Louis Stevenson, medallion by Saint-Gaudens PAGE 205 206 212 215 220 230 233 |