'Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 457
Barnfield, Richard, 159

"Barrack Room Ballads "
ling), 565

Barrie, James Matthew, 555
Barrow, Isaac, 202

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46

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(Kip-

Barry Lyndon (Thackeray), 466
Bastille" (Carlyle), 417

'Battle of the Baltic" (Campbell),
400

"Battle of Blenheim" (Southey),
402

"Battle of the Books' (Swift),
224, 298

Baxter, Richard, 171

Beaconsfield, Lord, 193, 483, 530, 539
"Beau Nash (Goldsmith), 215
Beaumont, Francis, 151, 153, 156,
157, 174, 201

Beaumont, George, 339, 340
"Beaux' Stratagem (Farquhar),

202

'Beggars' Opera" (Gay), 299
"Beket," 43, 122, 441

Belles lettres, 11

"Bells

and Pomegranates'

(Browning), 448

"Ben-Hur" (Wallace), 31

"Blue Bird, The" (Maeterlinck),
553

"Boat on the Serchio" (Shelley),
387

Poccaccio, 60, 66, 71, 76
Boethius, 36, 496

Bolingbroke, Lord, 228, 254, 256,
262

"Bondman" (Caine), 558

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Bonds of Discipline' (Kipling),
566

"Book of Common Prayer," 102

Book of Martyrs" (Foxe), 97
Bopp, Franz, 13

"Borderers, The" (Wordsworth),
360

Borrow, George Henry, 538

Boswell, James, 217, 220, 266, 273,

275ff., 278, 357, 366, 404, 431, 540
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"Bothwell (Swinburne), 549
Bowring, Sir John, 470

The Boy and the Angel" (Brown-
ing), 448

Boyd, Hugh Stuart, 516

Boyle, Robert, 204

Boz, 453, 456

"Bridge Builders" (Kipling), 568
Bridge of Sighs". (Hood), 530,
551

Bridgewater, Earl of, 180
Britain, history of, 19, 20

Broken Heart" (Ford), 157
Brontë, Charlotte, 463, 501, 503
Brontë, Emily, 502

Brooke, Rupert, 560
Brookfield, A. T., 436
Broome, William, 253
Brougham, Lord, 374, 403
Browne, Sir Thomas, 169

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 435,
445, 448, 471, 503, 516ff.
Browning, Oscar, 529,

Browning, Robert, 60, 78, 159, 165,
328, 410, 415, 454ff., 516, 518, 559,
563

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Brushwood Boy, The" (Kipling),
568
Bryce, James, 552
Brydges, Egerton, 167
Buchanan, George, 94
Bucolic poetry, 105, 113
Buckle, 432

Bulwer-Lytton, 87, 459

Bunyan, John, 161, 193ff., 348, 482
Burgoyne, Sir John, 471

Burke, Edmund, 212, 220, 275, 276,
283, 286, 288ff., 298, 434, 504, 559
Burleigh, Lord, 106, 110, 112
Burney, Francis, 207, 220, 275, 352,
497, 507

Burns, Robert, 114, 126, 219, 220,
312, 315ff., 345, 375, 396, 400, 409,
410, 414, 420, 423, 451, 565, 566
Butler, Joseph, 302

Butler, Samuel, 200
Byrom, John, 302

Byron, Lord, 159, 170, 220, 246,
253, 265, 302, 312, 373ff., 390, 396,
402, 409, 445, 451, 482, 502

Cæsar, A Sketch

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Caine, Hall, 559

(Froude), 540

Cagliostro" (Carlyle), 415