the Divine. Its emotion, though more intense and enduring than that of other men, is calmer, and therefore less observed. We have seen what susceptibility breathes in Milton's early poetry,not light or gay, indeed, but always healthful and bright. And later, in his essay on Education, he says: In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.' When old, tried, and sightless, he could turn from the stormy scenery of the infernal regions, and luxuriate in the loveliness of Paradise, the innocent joy of its inhabitants. There is no mistaking the fine sense of beauty and the pure deep affection of these exquisite lines, which the gentle Eve addresses to her lover in the 'shady bowers' of Eden: Neither breath of Morn, when she ascends An Independent in politics and religion, a hero, a martyr, a recluse, a dweller in an ideal city, standing alone and aloof above his times, and, when eyes of flesh were sightless, wandering the more 'where the Muses haunt,'— truly Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.' Influence. Such men are sent as soldiers of humanity. They use the sacred fire, divinely kindled within them, not to amuse men or to build up a reputation, but to awaken kindred greatness in other souls. What service Milton has rendered to mankind by his love of freedom and the high, brave morals he taught! On account of the learning necessary to their full comprehension, his works will never be popular in the sense in which those of Shakespeare are so, or Bunyan, or Burns, or even Pope and Cowper; but, like the Organum, they move the intellects which move the world. As culture spreads and approaches their spiritual heights, the more they will reveal their efficacy to purify, invigorate, and delight; the more will man aspire to emulate the zeal, the fortitude, the virtue, the toil, the heroism, of their author. It is a Chinese maxim, that 'a sage is the instructor of a hun - dred ages.' Talk much with such a one, and you acquire his quality, the habit of looking at things as he. From him proceeds mental and moral force, will he or not. He is of those who make a period, as well as mark it; who, without ceasing to help us as a cause, help us also as an effect; who reach so high, that age and comparison cannot rob them of power to inspire; who turn, by their moral alchemy, The common dust Of servile opportunity to gold, Filling the soul with sentiments august, The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just.' INDEX. Abelard, fame and influence, 87; and Elfric, translates Bible, 117. Alchemist, quoted and criticised, 447. Alfred, laws of, 61, 66; position in Anatomy of Melancholy, quoted and Ancren Riule, quoted, 117. Angles, coming of, 6. Anglo-Norman history in word- Anglo-Saxon language. See Lan- guage. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, Antipodes, popular notions of, 129, Antony and Cleopatra, quoted, 378. Aquinas, Thomas, perfects scholasti- Arcadia, quoted and criticised, 341. Aristotle, philosophy of, 331; opposed 497 Arminius, theology of, 436. Arthur, legends of, 7, 105, 107; the Aryas, Aryan, the mother-race, 2; Asculanus, martyrdom of, 189. Asser, quoted, 153, 156. As You Like It, quoted and criti- Atheism, foolishness of, 470. Bacon, Sir Francis, quoted, 157; in- Bacon, Roger, biography and criti- Baker's Chronicle, 434. Beaumont and Fletcher, literary co- Beauty, vivid sense of. in the Re- Becket, Thomas à, pilgrimages to the Bede, Alfred's translations of, 117; Berenger, on transubstantiation, 190. Elfric, 117; by Wycliffe, 200; by Bishop Golias, 79. Boadicea, the warrior-queen, 15. Book of Common Prayer, quoted, 276. Books, manuscript form of early, and Breviary of Health, quoted, 330. Broken Heart, quoted and criticised, Browne, Sir Thomas, allusion to the Brut, quoted and criticised, 112. Bryant, Thanatopsis, 100. Burbage, an actor, 374. Burke, Edmund, quoted, 145, 456. Butler, Samuel, quoted, 408. Cadmon, 101: biography and criti- Cæsar, Julius, invades Britain, 4; Calvin, John, on predestination, Cambridge University, 174. Canterbury Tales, quoted and criti- Carew, Thomas, quoted and criti- Cases of Conscience, 437. Caxton, William, 243; biography and Celts, migrations of, into Europe, 3; Chapman, quoted, 425. Charles II, 402. Charon, quoted, 158. Charon, the Stygian ferryman, 101, Chaucer, quoted, 166, 175; in what Cheke, 321. Chevy Chase, old ballad, 117. Chinese proverb, 39; royalty, 196; Christ, power of, as the ideal of Christian Morals, 437. Christianity, introduction of, into lish Church, 73; commanding |