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354. What found no expression in the poetry of this period?

355. What salutary effect was finally brought about, and by whom?

356. What may be said of the mission and influence of the prose

writings of this century?

357. Tell about the satirists of this period.

358. How are the writings of Alexander Pope regarded?

359. What were the advantages, and what the character, of this poet?

360. What may be said of his style?

361. In what did he excel?

362. What must every lover of his poetry regret?

363. What general estimate is given of his work?

364. What may be said of Joseph Addison and his writings? 365. Describe his style.

366. Which of his productions are most admired?

367. What is the tone, and what has been the effect, of his work? 368. What may be said of the abilities of Jonathan Swift?

369. On what did he depend as a means of curing the faults and foibles of society?

370. What was the general character of his writings?

371. Describe his poetry.

372. What is considered as the most remarkable production of this writer?

373. What is the nature of this work?

374. How is Swift's style of composition regarded ?

375. What was the character of Richard Steele ?

376. What enterprises did he set on foot?

377. Describe the Tatler.

378. What was its success?

379. How were the Tatler and the Spectator enriched?

380. How did Steele succeed in writing plays?

381. What motive was seen in all his dramatic writings?

382. What may be said of Steele's motive and of the need for the

work he undertook?

383. For what was his style remarkable?

384. What may be said of his versatility?

385. What are some of the defects of his writings? 386. For what may they be praised?

387. How extensively did Daniel Defoe write?

388. Tell something of his character and experiences. 389. At what age was he stricken with apoplexy?

390. What did every one then suppose?

391. What did he accomplish after that?

392. What is said of his style and his power as a writer? 393. What was he accused of forging?

394. What proof has been given of his realistic power?

395. For what will he always be remembered? 396. Under what disadvantages

labor?

did Dr. Isaac Watts have to

397. For what is he best remembered?

398. What may be said of the influence of these hymns? 399. What were the qualifications of Lord Bolingbroke? 400. Describe his style.

401. What may be said of his reasoning and his influence?

402. What must be said of the general character of his writings? 403. What was the character of Edward Young?

404. What has he produced?

405. In what does his poetry abound?

406. How are his writings most agreeably read?

407. What is the name and character of his most noted work? 408. What tendency mars the good effect of this man's writings? 409. For what is Bishop Butler distinguished?

410. What are some of the important points brought out in his reasoning?

411. What may be said of his style, and of the popularity of his

work?

412. What was the native place of Jonathan Edwards.

413. What was his life and character?

414. What was his definition of true religion?

415. How does he in his writings sometimes restrict this definition?

416. What has been said of his manner?

417. Give a synopsis of the selection taken from his writings.

418. Describe the character and course of Benjamin Franklin ? 419. What may be said of his writings and his motive for writing? 420. For what are his writings to be studied?

421. What were some of the important discoveries made by Franklin ?

422. To what extent did Dr. Samuel Johnson influence the language and literature of his time?

423. What was his greatest work?

424. What other important contributions did he make to our literature?

425. In what do his writings abound?

426. In what were they strongly instrumental?

427. What did his poetry lack in order to give it the highest rank?

428. Describe his style.

429. Who were the leading historians of the eighteenth century? 430. How did they rank in talent and literary attainment?

431. Describe the style of David Hume.

432. What destroyed the usefulness of his work as a history?

433. Describe the character of William Robertson.

434. What were the merits of his historical writings?

435. What was the greatest work of Edward Gibbon ?

436. What may be said in its favor?

437. Of what has he been accused?

438. Show from extracts quoted from his writings that these accusations are not well founded.

439. What may have been one cause of the complaints against

him ?

440. Against what do his shafts seem to have been directed rather than against true religion?

441. Who were the founders of Methodism in England and America?

442. What may be said of the influence exerted by these two men ? 443. Describe the course of George Whitefield?

444. What advantage had Wesley over Whitefield?

445. How long did he continue his work?

446. What did he accomplish?

447. What name was given to the little band of students that joined with him at Oxford in trying to carry out their strict views of practical piety?

448. How did these Methodists increase during the life of Wesley?

449. What may be said of the writings of Whitefield? Of Wesley?

450. Why have these men been introduced in these pages?

451. What gave Horace Walpole a name and place among literary men?

452. What advantages did he have for becoming acquainted with public men and the affairs of State?

453. What made his letters peculiarly interesting?

454. How did he amuse himself?

455. What besides letters did he write?

456. What estimate is put upon his writings?

457. Describe the public career of Edmund Burke.

458. How does he rank as a writer?

459. What may be said of his power of illustration?

460. What other qualities combined with these to make his speeches irresistible?

461. Who was first in the attempt to restore poetry to its normal state?

462. Describe the relations between Pope and Thomson. 463. What has been said of Thomson's love of nature?

464. What are his greatest works?

465. What is said of "The Seasons"?

466. What is the character of the "Castle of Indolence"?

467. What production of Thomas Gray's contributed most to his

renown?

468. What is the nature of the poem ?

469. What characteristic of the poem makes it great?

470. What principle does this poem exemplify ?

471. What does he tell us?

472. What was the character of Collins as a poet ? 473. In what does he resemble Gray?

474. In what condition was he met by Dr. Johnson?

475. What did he say to Johnson's look of surprise?

476. In what does his poetry greatly abound?

477. What may be said of this rather extravagant use of figures? 478. What are among his best productions?

479. What excellences can you point out in the selection given from him?

480. What may be said of Oliver Goldsmith as a writer ?

481. What credit has been given him by eminent critics?

482. What has been said of his style?

483. What remark was made concerning him by Dr. Johnson? 484. What may be said of his Chinese letters ?

485. Which are the most admired of his poems ?

486. What high praise has been bestowed upon his "Traveler"? 487. What do most readers like better than the "Traveler"? 488. Describe the " Hermit," the " Retaliation," the "Vicar of Wakefield."

489. What were some of the deficiencies of Goldsmith?

490. How did his friends regard him?

491. What was Goldsmith's influence upon the literature of his day?

492. Who was James Beattie ?

493. How did he show his native humility and good sense?

494. What had he done to make himself renowned ?

495. In what was Beattie inferior to Hume?

496. What won him so many readers?

497. Where was Beattie most at home?

498. What may be said of his poem, the "Minstrel "?

499. What breathes in every line of it?

500. Tell how Beattie taught his young son that the world and all its created wonders could not have come by chance.

501. Describe the sensitive nature of William Cowper.

502. How did he look upon the greed for gold, the longing for fame, the struggle for position?

503. What is manifest throughout all his writings?

504. How did he, from his retirement, look out upon the mad strivings of the world?

505. Describe him as a moralist. As a satirist.

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