Footnote 159:  For titles and publishers of reference works see General Bibliography at the end of this book.

Footnote 160:  See, for instance, the “Hymn to St. Theresa” and “The Flaming Heart.”

Footnote 161:  So called from Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of Greece.

Footnote 162:  See, for instance, “Childhood,” “The Retreat,” “Corruption,” “The Bird,” “The Hidden Flower,” for Vaughan’s mystic interpretation of childhood and nature.

Footnote 163:  There is some doubt as to whether he was born at the Castle, or at Black Hall.  Recent opinion inclines to the latter view.

Footnote 164:  “On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three.”

Footnote 165:  “It is remarkable,” says Lamartine, “how often in the libraries of Italian princes and in the correspondence of great Italian writers of this period you find mentioned the name and fame of this young Englishman.”

Footnote 166:  In Milton’s work we see plainly the progressive influence of the Puritan Age.  Thus his Horton poems are joyous, almost Elizabethan in character; his prose is stern, militant, unyielding, like the Puritan in his struggle for liberty; his later poetry, following the apparent failure of Puritanism in the Restoration, has a note of sadness, yet proclaims the eternal principles of liberty and justice for which he had lived.

Footnote 167:  Of these sixty were taken from the Bible, thirty-three from English and five from Scotch history.

Footnote 168:  The latter was by Lewis Bayly, bishop of Bangor.  It is interesting to note that this book, whose very title is unfamiliar to us, was speedily translated into five different languages.  It had an enormous sale, and ran through fifty editions soon after publication.

Footnote 169:  Abridged from Grace Abounding, Part 3; Works (ed. 1873), p. 71.

Footnote 170:  For titles and publishers of reference works, see General Bibliography at the end of this book.

Footnote 171:  Guizot’s History of the Revolution in England.

Footnote 172:  Jeremy Collier (1650-1726), a clergyman and author, noted for his scholarly Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain (1708-1714) and his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698).  The latter was largely instrumental in correcting the low tendency of the Restoration drama.

Footnote 173:  The Royal Society, for the investigation and discussion of scientific questions, was founded in 1662, and soon included practically all of the literary and scientific men of the age.  It encouraged the work of Isaac Newton, who was one of its members; and its influence for truth—­at a time when men were still trying to compound the philosopher’s stone, calculating men’s actions from the stars, and hanging harmless old women for witches—­can hardly be overestimated.