Part 25 (1/2)

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JOHN LOCKE. +1632-1704+. Diplomatist; Secretary to the Board of Trade; philosopher; prose-writer.

+Essay concerning the Human Understanding+ (1690); +Thoughts on Education+; and other prose works.

The Commonwealth, 1649-60.

Cromwell Lord Protector, 1653-58.

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DANIEL DEFOE. +1661-1731+. Literary man; pamphleteer; journalist; member of Commission on Union with Scotland.

+The True-born Englishman+ (1701); +Robinson Crusoe+ (1719); +Journal of the Plague+ (1722); and more than a hundred books in all.

Restoration, 1660.

First standing army, 1661.

First newspaper in England, 1663.

JONATHAN SWIFT. +1667-1745+. English clergyman; literary man; satirist; prose-writer; poet; Dean of St Patrick's, in Dublin.

+Battle of the Books+; +Tale of a Tub+ (1704), an allegory on the Churches of Rome, England, and Scotland; +Gulliver's Travels+ (1726); a few poems; and a number of very vigorous political pamphlets.

Plague of London, 1665.

Fire of London, 1666.

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SIR RICHARD STEELE. +1671-1729+. Soldier; literary man; courtier; journalist; M.P.

Steele founded the 'Tatler,' 'Spectator,' 'Guardian,' and other small journals. He also wrote some plays.

Charles II. pensioned by Louis XIV. of France, 1674.

JOSEPH ADDISON. +1672-1719+. Essayist; poet; Secretary of State for the Home Department.

+Essays+ in the 'Tatler,' 'Spectator,' and 'Guardian.' Cato, a Tragedy (1713). Several _Poems_ and _Hymns_.

The Habeas Corpus Act, 1679.

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ALEXANDER POPE. +1688-1744+. Poet.

+Essay on Criticism+ (1711); +Rape of the Lock+ (1714); Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, finished in 1726; +Dunciad+ (1729); +Essay on Man+ (1739). A few prose _Essays_, and a volume of _Letters_.

James II. ascends the throne in 1685.

Revolution of 1688.

William III. and Mary II. ascend the throne, 1689.

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Battle of the Boyne, 1690.

JAMES THOMSON. +1700-1748+. Poet.