| Introduction by Henry Craik |
Francis Bacon.
1561–1626. | Critical Introduction by William Minto |
Letter to Lord Burghley in 1591 |
Of Studies |
Of Marriage and Single Life |
Of Vainglory |
Of Building |
On the Vanity of Words without Matter |
Of the True Greatness of a State |
The Character of Henry VII. |
The Duties of Judges of Assize |
The Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury |
A Haven after Storm |
On the Transmission of Immateriate Virtues |
John Hayward.
1564?–1627. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
Difficulties in Reign of Edward VI. |
The Protector Somerset and His Brother |
Public Fears |
Queen Elizabeth |
The Jesuits |
James VI. and I.
1566–1625. | Critical Introduction by William S. M’Cormick |
On the Education of a Prince |
Tobacco and Good Manners |
John Spottiswoode.
1565–1639. | Critical Introduction by James Miller Dodds |
The Execution of Queen Mary |
The Adventures of Mr. John Craig |
Sir Henry Wotton.
1568–1639. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
How to Meet the Turk |
To Sir Edmund Bacon |
John Donne.
1572–1631. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Occasional Mercies |
Salvation |
The Arithmetic of Sin |
Death |
To My Very True and Very Good Friend, Sir Henry Goodyere |
Ben Jonson.
1572–1637. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
De Malignitate Studentium |
De Bonis et Malis—De Innocentia |
Notæ Domini S. Albani de Doctrinæ Intemperantia |
Samuel Purchas.
1577?–1626. | Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
Of the Hill Amara and the Rarities therein |
Sir Thomas Overbury.
1581–1613. | Critical Introduction by William S. M’Cormick |
An Affectate Traveller |
A Mere Fellow of an House |
A Roaring Boy |
A Franklin |
Robert Burton.
1577–1640. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Democritus His Utopia |
Love of Solitude |
Of Repulse |
Charity, the Want of It |
Joseph Hall.
1574–1656. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
To the High and Mighty Monarch James |
Mediation in Church Controversies |
Besieged in His Palace |
Balaam and the Ass |
To My Reverend Brethren of the Diocese of Norwich |
The Christian’s Disposition |
Undutiful Sons |
Weary Loquacity |
James Ussher.
1581–1656. | Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
Of Purgatory, and Prayer for the Dead |
John Selden.
1584–1654. | Critical Introduction by William S. M’Cormick |
A Scholar’s Defence |
The First Payment of Tithes in England |
Measure of Things |
Opinion |
Logic and Rhetoric |
Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
1583–1648. | Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Paris |
John Hales.
1584–1656. | Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
All Differences Do Not Involve Schism |
False Proofs |
William Drummond of Hawthornden.
1585–1649. | Critical Introduction by William S. M’Cormick |
A Reverie on Death |
George Herbert.
1593–1633. | Critical Introduction by Alfred Ainger |
The Parson Preaching |
The Parson on Sundays |
Thomas Hobbes.
1588–1679. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Causes of Mutual Fear |
The State of War |
Natural Religion |
The Race |
Love |
The Inconveniences of Government |
How the Presbyterians Grew Strong |
Thomas May.
1594/5–1650. | Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
The Argument of His History |
Strafford |
The Queen Mother |
The Battle of Edgehill |
James Howell.
c. 1594–1666. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Murder of Buckingham |
The White Bird |
Howell’s Sabbath Devotions |
The Pied Piper |
Wines |
Peter Heylyn.
1599–1662. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
Fuller as an Historian |
A Royal Progress |
Strafford and the King |
John Knox |
William Chillingworth.
1602–1644. | Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
Scripture Intelligible |
Faith and Understanding |
Samuel Rutherford.
1600?–1661. | Critical Introduction by James Miller Dodds |
Flight No Lawful Means of Escape for an Oppressed People |
Letter to Jean Brown |
Violent and Natural Death |
John Earle.
1601?–1665. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
A Pretender to Learning |
A Sceptic in Religion |
A Vulgar-Spirited Man |
Owen Felltham.
1602?–1668. | Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
A Friend and Enemy, When Most Dangerous |
Of Preaching |
Description of a Dutch House |
Sir Kenelm Digby.
1603–1665. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
An Extract from a Ship’s Log |
The Maxims of Self-Contentment |
The Soul’s Excellence |
Sir Thomas Urquhart.
1611–1660. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Doctor Seaton |
The Design of the Third Book, Entituled Cleronomaporia |
Sir Thomas Browne.
1605–1682. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Part of Address to Reader |
Of Griffins |
Faith in Mysteries |
A Providence in Fortune |
Of the Nature of Angels |
The Soul Illimitable |
Sleep |
The Vanity of Ambition |
Imagination Sweetens Life |
Something to Be Loved in All |
Walk Not with Leaden Sandals |
Temperance in Pleasure |
The Limits of Felicity |
Un-man Not Thyself |
Izaak Walton.
1593–1683. | Critical Introduction by Edmund Gosse |
What We Owe to the Birds |
Angling an Art |
The Otter Hunt |
The Milkmaid’s Song |
The Blessing of Content |
A Vision |
George Herbert at Bemerton |
Dr. Sanderson at Boothby Pannel |
Lucy Hutchinson.
1620–1681. | Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
Lambert, 1659 |
Bulstrode Whitelocke.
1605–1675. | Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
Ship Money |
A Conference with the King |
The Trial of the King |
Thomas Fuller.
1608–1661. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Natural Commodities of Hampshire |
John of Trevisa and Geoffrey Chaucer |
The Good Yeoman |
Ejaculations: Their Privilege |
An Ill Match |
The Imprisonment and Ransom of King Richard |
Fuller’s Farewell to Exeter on the Eve of Its Surrender |
Edward Hyde,
Lord Clarendon.
1609–1674. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
The Death of Strafford |
The City of London |
Character of Hampden |
Character of Lord Falkland |
Character of Charles I. |
Character of Cromwell |
Clarendon’s Early Friends |
Clarendon’s Early Manhood |
Character of Himself |
Fealty against Conscience |
Hopes of Peace Frustrated |
Causes of the Corruption Which Followed the Restoration |
The Stuart Family |
Clarendon’s Letter to the King |
John Milton.
1608–1674. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
The Deliverance of England |
Not the Praise, but the Cause |
Himself a True Poem |
The New Inquisition |
The Search after Truth |
The Punishment of Tyrants |
The King’s Misgovernment |
Justice above the King |
Persecution, Papist and Protestant |
A Perpetual Grand Council of the Nation |
Robert Leighton.
1611–1684. | Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
The Flower of the Grass |
The Vanity of Life |
Life and Death |
David and Solomon: Their Experience of Life |
Renunciation |
The Comfort of Belief |
The Inheritance |
Spiritual Sunshine |
James Harrington.
1611–1677. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Political Wisdom of Girls |
The Case for the Agrarian |
The Speech of the Lord Epimonus de Garrula |
Inequality in Commonwealths |
Samuel Butler.
1612–1680. | Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
A Rabble |
An Opinionater |
A Rebel |
An Hector |
Jeremy Taylor.
1613–1667. | Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
Holiness the Way to Knowledge |
The Responsibilities of a Bishop |
Of Contentedness in All Estates and Accidents |
Of the Practice of Patience |
On Set Forms of Liturgy |
On Difference of Opinion |
Bishop John Wilkins.
1614–1672. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
A Journey to the Moon Possible |
Authority of the Ancients |
Motion of the Earth Possible |
Henry More.
1614–1687. | Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
The Dream of Bathynous |
The Obscurity of the Christian Religion |
Design in the Animal World |
Richard Baxter.
1615–1691. | Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
The Knowledge of God |
The Heart in Heaven |
Abraham Cowley.
1618–1667. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
The Use of Leisure |
A Small Thing, but Mine Own |
A Maxim Criticised |
Poetry as a Mistress |
Ralph Cudworth.
1617–1688. | Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
On the Incorporeality of the Deity |
Against Arbitrary Decrees |
On the Exercise of the Will |
On Christ’s Christianity |
Sir Roger L’Estrange.
1616–1704. | Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
The Fox and the Raven |
The Daw and Borrowed Plumes |
The Fox and the Sick Lion |
The Ape and the Dolphin |
