Good Queen Anne; or, Men and manners ... in England's Augustan age

Front matter

GOOD QUEEN ANNE VOL. II. a Now Ready, Price 6s., the One Volume Edition OF A CARDINAL SIN. BY HUGH CONWAY, Author of ' Called Back,' ' A Family Affair,' etc. ' " A Cardinal Sin " is a capital novel — better far than " Called Back," and indeed containing finer and better work than " A Family Affair." The plot is ingeniously complicated and cleverly unravelled. The interest never flags, but increases in its intensity. Altogether, it is fortunate for the reading public that "A Cardinal Sin" should have been found complete among Mr Conway's posthumous papers.' — Westminster Review. '"A Cardinal Sin" would have taken the world by storm, and made the author's name and fortune, had he not been beyond the reach of good or evil. Taken all in all, it is one of the most enthralling pieces of fiction of the last five-and-twenty years.' — Vanity Fair. ' We must confess to being profoundly astonished at the strength and power displayed in this book, which would have been certain to have added considerably to Mr Conway's reputation, had he not unfortunately dropped from the: lfn^T^^ Whitehall Review. '"A Cardinal Sin" may Be ' safely Recommended.

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Chapter I. Men Of Letters

— PAGE Dean Swift— His Early Years— Sir William Temple— 'The Battle of the Books' — Extraordinary Influence — Swift as a Politician — ' Gulliver's Travels ' — Hester Johnson — Vanessa — The Drapier Letters — Death and Character — Joseph Addison — His Farce of ' The Campaign ' — As an Essayist — The Spectator — A Christian's Death — Sir Richard Steele — As a Soldier — 'The Christian Hero' — His Plays — Some Letters to His Wife — Founds 'The Tatler ' and ' The Spectator ' — Steele as a Man and a AVriter — His Death, ..... 1-I44

Chapter II. The Lesser Prose Writers

— Dr Arbuthnot — History of John Bull — Bernard de Mandeville — Fable of the Bees — Bishop Berkeley — Dr Prideaux — The Characteristics — Earl of Shaftesbury — Dr Clarke — Lord Bolingbroke — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, . 145-202

Chapter III

A LONELY MAN OF LETTERS — Daniel Defoe, ....... 203-230 Contents. Vlll

Chapter IV. The Poets

— PAGE Alexander Pope— Character of his Poetry — His Life — Essay on Criticism — Rape of the Lock — Translation of Homer — Essay on Man — His Last Days — Matthew Prior — His Public and Private Career — His Vers de Socie'te — His Epigrams — Alma — John Gay — The Shepherd's Week — Trivia— Fables— The Beggar's Opera— His Letters, . 231-303

Chapter V. The Lesser Poets

— Character of English Poetry in the Reign of Anne — Its Chief Metrical Form — The Countess of AVinchelsea — Thomas Tickell — Elegy on Addison — Thomas Parnell — An Unhappy Life — The Hermit — Night Piece on Death — The Dispensary and Sir Samuel Garth — Sir Richard Blackmore — His Epics — Ambrose Philips — His Pastoral Poems — Poems on Children — John Philips — William AValsh — Friendship with Pope— Elijah Fenton— William Broome — Aaron Hill — Zara — Lawrence Eusden — Leonard AVelsted — Thomas Cook — Charles Gildon — John Dennis — His Critical AVorks — His Plays — Lewis Theobald — James Ralph — AVilliam Somerville — The Chase — Matthew Green — The Spleen — Dr Young — John Byrom, . . . 304-356

Chapter VI. The Coffee-houses And Clubs, Etc

— Coffee-Houses in London — Description of an Interior — Well's — Button's — Child's — Taverns — Anecdotes — The Kit Cat Club — Calves' Head Club — Its Anthems — October Club — Beefsteak Club — Note : Newspapers, . . . 357-373 AUTHORITIES. Volume i. ...... 374 Volume ii. ...... OR, Men and Manners, Life and Letters in the Augustan Age.