EXTRACTS.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Absalom and Achitophel.

Absalom and Achitophel.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

Ode to St. Cecilia's Day.

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend:
God never made his work for man to mend.

Cymon and Iphigenia.

For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.

The Hind and the Panther.

Happy the man, and happy he alone-
He who can call to-day his own.

Imitation of Horace.

Ill-habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ovid

Look round the habitable world: how few
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Juvenal.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow;

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

All for Love.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

All for Love

Forgiveness to the injured does belong;

But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

The Conquest of Granada

CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITERS.

POET.

Samuel Butler (1612-1680).-A famous burlesque-writer. Author of Hudibras, a keen satire ridiculing the manners of the Puritans.

For what is worth, in anything,
But so much money as 'twill bring?

Hudibras.

For truth is precious and divine

Too rich a thing for carnal swine.

Hudibras.

He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.

Hudibras.

PROSE-WRITERS.

John Locke (1632–1704).—A metaphysical writer. Author of An Essay Concerning the Human Understanding, Thoughts Concerning Education and other essays.

He that sinks his vessel by overloading it, though it be with gold and silver and precious stones, will give his owner but an ill account of his voyage. Duty of Preserving Health.

Sir William Temple (1628–1699).—A well-known statesman and a writer of high character. Author of a number of gracefully-written essays.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.

Ancient and Modern Learning.

John Bunyan (1628-1688).—The greatest master of allegory in the language. At first a poor tinker, then a preacher. His most famous book is Pilgrim's Progress, which he wrote while in jail, where he was placed for insisting on preaching his doctrines to the people. Author also of Holy War and Grace Abounding in the Chief of Sinners.

John Evelyn (1620-1706).-Distinguished as the author of several scientific works written in a popular style. His most prominent books are Sylva, a treatise on forest trees, and Terra, a work on agriculture and gardening.

AGE OF QUEEN ANNE.

1700-1750.

REIGNING SOVEREIGNS: QUEEN ANNE, GEORGE I
GEORGE II.

REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS: ADDISON, POPE.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

1672-1719.

JOSEPH ADDISON, the greatest prose-writer of his time, was born in Wiltshire, England, on the 1st of May, 1672. He was such a weak and delicate child that no one thought he could possibly live; we are therefore naturally surprised when his biographers tell us that this timid, sensitive child was one of a rollicking party of schoolboys that locked out a teacher on the last day of a school-term, as was sometimes the custom in those days. Shy and retiring as he was, however, it is said of him by another biographer that on one occasion, when he had done something at school which merited a whipping, he ran away to the woods, where he lived on berries and slept in the stump of a tree, until his hiding-place was discovered only after a long search, and he was taken home to his parents.

But, notwithstanding these little escapades, Addison must have been a faithful student, for he entered the university at Oxford at the age of fifteen, and even at that early age he was regarded as a fine Latin scholar, and after several years of application he gained a scholarship as a reward for the excellence of his Latin

verses.

Addison's father was a clergyman and wished his son to study for the same profession, but it was argued that talents such as young Addison possessed were needed for the country; so he gave his services to the State instead of to the Church. Addison's tastes were too literary, however, to make a good politician; so he never rose to great prominence in state affairs, although he held many important public offices of

trust.

While at school Addison became very intimate with a jolly young Irishman, Dick Steele, whose disposition was just as lively as Addison's was reticent, but who proved a steadfast friend through life. About the year 1709, Steele established The Tatler, a newspaper which appeared two or three times a week, and which was the origin of periodical literature. The Tatler became. very popular, and it was soon followed by The Spectator, which contained items of general news together with an essay on some popular topic. Addison was a constant and valued contributor to the columns of the Spectator, in which he endeavored to correct the habits of the times by ridiculing, in a good-natured way, the gambling, drunkenness and other vices of the age. His language was pure and quaint, and his style so