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ent of their intellectual equals, they aim at putting intelligible thoughts into the most natural and forcible words. Precisely the same qualities are observable in all the best English writers of the eighteenth century. Addison, Pope, and Goldsmith are perhaps the most shining examples, but the rest are 'classical' in the sense which we have just indicated; and we can hardly be wrong in ascribing this common rhetorical instinct to the intimate connection between the men of thought and the men of action, which existed both in the free states of antiquity, and in England under the rule of the aristocracy. With the advance of the eighteenth century the instinct in English literature seems to grow weaker; the style of our authors becomes more formal and constrained, and symptoms of that dislike of society encouraged by the philosophy of Rousseau more frequently betray themselves. As the poetry of Cowper shows less social instinct than that of Gray, so Gray himself is inferior in this respect to Pope and Goldsmith. But his style has the same lofty public spirit that distinguishes his favourite models, and no worthier form could be imagined to express the ardour excited in the heart of a patriotic poet by the rising fortunes of his native country. We feel that it is in every way fitting that the author of the 'Elegy' should have been the favourite of Wolfe and the countryman of Chatham." [Illustration: CLIO, THE MUSE OF HISTORY.] INDEX OF WORDS EXPLAINED. Aeolian, 109. afield, 86. amain, 110. antic, 111. Arvon, 125. Attic warbler, 95. Berkeley, 126. boar (of Richard III.), 130. broke (=broken), 86. buskined, 132. buxom, 104. Cadwallo, 125. Caernarvon, 125. captive (proleptic), 104. chance (adverb), 91. cheer, 104. churchway, 92. curfew, 83. customed, 92. Cytherea, 111. Delphi, 114. fond (=foolish), 111, 132. fretted, 87. glister, 99. Gloster, 124. Gorgon, 137. graved, 93. grisly, 105, 126. grove (=graved), 93. haggard, 124. hauberk, 123. Helicon, 109. Hoel, 124. honied, 96. Horae, 94. Hyperion, 112. Idalia, 110. Ilissus, 114. jet, 99. leaden (eye), 136. lion-port, 132. little (=petty), 89. Llewellyn, 124. long-expecting, 95. Maeander, 114. margent, 104. Modred, 125. Mortimer, 124. murther, 129. murtherous, 105. nightly (=nocturnal), 123. partin
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