England From Wordsworth To Dickens

ENGLAND WORDSWORTH TO DICKENS BY R. W. KING, M. A LECTURER IN ENGLISH 1-ANGUAGB AND LITERATURE. UNIVERSITY COLLKGB OF NORTH W ALBS. BANGOR Such is human life so gliding on, It glimmers, and is gone I Yet is the tale, brief though it be. as strange, As full, he thinks, of wild and wondrous change. As any that the wandering tribes require, Stretched in the desert round their evening fire As any sung of old, in hall or bower, To minstrel-harps at irMT ighf a witching hour I Samuel Rogers, Unman, 18x9 NEW YORK HARCX3TJRT, BRACE AND COMPANY First Published in 1929 CONTENTS vi ENGLAND FROM WORDSWORTH TO DICKENS PAGE XI REMINISCENCES OF A PENIN SULAR WAR VETERAN . Haydon . . 27 XII THE EVE OF WATERLOO . Byron . .28 XIII THE NEWS OF WATERLOO REACHES LONDON . . Haydon . . 30 XIV NAPOLEON THE LAST PHASE Byron . . 32 XV THE END OF THE WARS . Wordsworth . 33 XVI AN EPIGRAM ON WAR . Elliott . . 34 SECTION III. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION I THE COMING OF THE INDUS TRIAL AGE . II THE POWER OF STEAM III STEAM MACHINERY AND THE EARLY MANUFACTURERS. IV CHILD LABOUR IN COTTON FACTORIES . V THE MARCH OF PROGRESS 1821 .... VI THE STATE OF ENGLAND IN 1819 .... JH THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT AND THE DUTIES OF GOVERN MENT .... VIII POST-WAR TAXATION IX THE AGRICULTURAL SLUMP AND THE LANDED INTEREST LX COTTON AND CORN A DIALOGUE CI A CORN-LAW RHYME . XII MECHANICAL PROGRESS AND NATIONAL WELFARE XIII THE NATURAL PROGRESS OF SOCIETY . SECTION IV. STATESMEN I Fox, BURKE, AND PITT . II A SONG IN PRAISE OF PITT HI SOME PERSONAL RECOLLEC TIONS OF Fox IV REPRESENTATION IN THE UNREFORMED PARLIA MENT . . . Wordsworth . 35 Erasmus Darwin 36 Gaskell . . 37 Southey Pen nant Ure . 39 Anon. . . 43 Shelley . . 47 Southey . . 47 SydneySsriih . 50 Byron . .51 Moore . . 53 Elliott . . 54 Coleridge ., 55 Macaulay . 56 PARLIAJViMiVT Hazlitt . . 59 Canning .62 Rogers, . 63 Poky . . 65 CONTIS IS vii V A DIATRIBE AGAINST ROT TEN BOROUGHS . . Cobbett . VI AN ELECTION FOR A ROT TEN BOROUGH ., Peacock . VII THE JACOBIN BILL . Anon. VIII THE REFORM BILL A SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . . . Macaulay . IX A SPEECH ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS .... Sydney Smith X THE TRIUMPH OF REFORM Elliott KI THE REFORMED PARLIAMENT Greville 67 69 73 74 76 78 79 Keats 81 SECTION V. RELIGION THE CHURCH DISSENT I AN ENGLISH CATHEDRAL SQUARE II A DEFENCE OF THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT HI THE OLD-FASHIONED VICAR IV A DEFENCE OF DISSENTERS V METHODIST PREACHING VI AN ATTACK ON THE METHO DISTS .... VII TONY WELLER AND THE METHODISTS . VIII THE EVIL AND THE GOOD OF METHODISM . IX IN FAVOUR OF CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION X GOD is LOVE . SECTION VI. THE COUNTRYSIDE TRAVEL THE SEA I A ROMANTIC VIEW OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE Washington Irv-II A SOBER VIEW OF VILLAGE LIFE .... Crabbe, II THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMON LANDS .... Elliott IV THE HARVEST-HOME OLD STYLE .... Bloomfield ., V THE DECAY OF FARMING LIFE .... Cobbett VI WALKING IN THE COUNTRY Hazlitt . 99 100 102 103 I0 4 108 viii ENGLAND FROM WORDSWORTH TO DICKENS VII IMPROVEMENTS IN ROADS. VIII FROM DOVER TO LONDON BY POSTCHAISE . IX A JOURNEY BY MAIL-COACH IN WINTER . X THE WONDER OF THE RAIL WAY .... XI FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF RAIL WAY TRAVELLING . XII A SONG OF THE SEA. XIII ONE OF NELSONS SAILORS. XIV SAILORS ON SHORE . SECTION VII. SPORTS AND PASTIMES AND CUSTOMS I THE ENGLISH LOVE OF GAMES Hazlitt II THE EARLY DAYS OF CRICKET Nyren III MR. PICKWICK AT A CRICKET MATCH .... Dickens . IV DRIVING CARRIAGES, CUR RICLESAND PHAETONS . Leigh Hunt V BOXING .... Reynolds Haz litt VI IN FAVOUR OF LOTTERIES. Lamb VII VALENTINES IN COUNTRY AND TOWN . VIII MAY FESTIVITIES IN TOWN AND COUNTRY IX A VISIT TO VAUXHALL GAR DENS .... Miss Mitford Lamb Southey Miss Mitford . Egan I II III IV V VI VII SECTION VIII. TOWN LIFE LONDON THE PRAISE OF LONDON . THE APPROACH TO LONDON LONDON MORNING . LONDON NIGHT THE LONDON SHOPS . TREES IN THE CITY . HACKNEY - COACHES AND HANSOM-CABS Lamb De Quincey William and Dorothy Words worth . ...