etical use of, by Milton, 235-36
Prynne, William, 147
_Psyche_, Beaumont's, 176
Puns, Milton's, 210-12
Puritanism, Milton's, 28-31, 92, 145, 162, 263

Quakerism, 29, 61
Quarles, Francis, 147

_Rape of the Lock, The_, Pope's, 232
Raphael, 97, 111, 115, 130, 144, 146, 202, 208, 228, 237, 248-49
_Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty_, 50
_Reformation in England, Of_, 42, 62, 91
_Rehearsal Transposed, The_, Marvell's, 67
Religious poetry, 173-77
Renaissance, the, 19, 59, 74, 173
Republicanism, 66
Restoration, the, 26, 35-8, 68
_Richard II._, Shakespeare's, 187
_Richard III._, Shakespeare's, 16
Rogers, Samuel, 214
Romanticism, 55, 220, 226, 229, 233, 245
_Romaunt of the Rose_, 238
Rowe, Nicholas, 240
_Ruined Abbey, The_, Shenstone's, 243
Rymer, Thomas, 241

Salmasius, 49, 69, 70, 71
_Samson Agonistes_, 26, 29, 37, 50-1, 79, 143, 146, 158-59, 162, 167,
168, 195-96, 203, 208-10, 241
Satan, 28, 60, 72, 85, 94, 102, 105, 109, 110-11, 129, 130, 132-39, 146,
152, 158, 160, 167, 211-12, 228, 239, 253
_Seasons, The_, Thomson's, 243, 248, 252
Sedley, Sir Charles, 260
_Sejanus_, Ben Jonson's, 220
Selden, Thomas, 56
Seneca, 189
Seventeenth-century poetry, 175-77, 256-62;
Milton's relation to, 218-20
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 203
_Shakespeare, Lines on_, Milton's, 182
Shakespeare, William, 3, 4, 5, 7, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 116, 118, 171, 175,
190, 198, 214, 217, 218, 220, 223, 225, 230, 231, 240, 243, 263
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 233
Shenstone, William, 243
Shirley, James, 219
_Short View of the Stage_, Collier's, 147
Sidney, Sir Philip, 174
Simile, Milton's use of, 234
Simmons, Samuel, 180
Smart, Christopher, 242
Somerville, William, 242
Sophocles, 70
Southwell, Robert, 174
_Spectator, The_, Addison's, 241
Spenser, Edmund, 17, 18, 106, 181, 200, 206, 236
_Splendid Shilling, The_, Philips's, 242
Spratt, Thomas, 219
Steele, Richard, 206, 218
Sternhold, Thomas, 173
Stoicism, 29, 145, 163
Strafford, Earl of, 23
Suckling, Sir John, 147, 188, 256
_Sugar Cane, The_, Grainger's, 242
Swift, Jonathan, 218
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 93
Sylvester, Thomas, 18, 106
Synod of Dort, 17

_Tale of Two Swannes, A_, 179
_Talmud, The_, 87
_Tatler, The_, Steele's, 206
_Tears of Peace_, Chapman's, 204
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 193
_Tenure of Kings and Magistrates_, 41
Thomson, James, 243, 248, 252-53
Tillotson, John, 219
_Translation of the Eleventh Odyssey_, Broome's, 242
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