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Read Ebook: Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli Isaac Disraeli Benjamin Earl Of Beaconsfield Editor
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PAGE THE DRUIDICAL INSTITUTION 1
BRITAIN AND THE BRITONS 12
THE NAME OF ENGLAND AND OF THE ENGLISH 24
THE ANGLO-SAXONS 28
CAEDMON AND MILTON 37
BEOWULF; THE HERO-LIFE 51
THE ANGLO-NORMANS 59
THE PAGE, THE BARON, AND THE MINSTREL 70
GOTHIC ROMANCES 81
ORIGIN OF THE VERNACULAR LANGUAGES OF EUROPE 96
ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 111
VICISSITUDES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 128
DIALECTS 142
MANDEVILLE; OUR FIRST TRAVELLER 151
CHAUCER 158
GOWER 177
PIERS PLOUGHMAN 183
OCCLEVE; THE SCHOLAR OF CHAUCER 191
LYDGATE; THE MONK OF BURY 196
THE INVENTION OF PRINTING 203
THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTER 214
EARLY LIBRARIES 221
HENRY THE SEVENTH 228
FIRST SOURCES OF MODERN HISTORY 234
ARNOLDE'S CHRONICLE 240
THE FIRST PRINTED CHRONICLE 243
HENRY THE EIGHTH; HIS LITERARY CHARACTER 250
BOOKS OF THE PEOPLE 256
SKELTON 276
THE SHIP OF FOOLS 285
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF SIR THOMAS MORE 289
THE EARL OF SURREY AND SIR THOMAS WYATT 303
THE SPOLIATION OF THE MONASTERIES 316
A CRISIS AND A REACTION; ROBERT CROWLEY 322
PRIMITIVE DRAMAS 339
THE REFORMER BISHOP BALE; AND THE ROMANIST JOHN HEYWOOD, THE COURT JESTER 353
ROGER ASCHAM 359
PUBLIC OPINION 368
ORTHOGRAPHY AND ORTHOEPY 381
THE ANCIENT METRES IN MODERN VERSE 393
ORIGIN OF RHYME 399
RHYMING DICTIONARIES 403
THE ARTE OF ENGLISH POESIE 405
THE DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT 413
THE FIRST JESUITS IN ENGLAND 423
HOOKER 439
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 451
SPENSER 460
THE FAERY QUEEN 475
ALLEGORY 487
THE FIRST TRAGEDY AND THE FIRST COMEDY 502
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