Women, J. S. Mill's Subiection of, iv,
295, 297

Women as stage heroines, ii, 159; on
the stage, iii, 100

Women, Heywood's Nine Books Con-
cerning, ii, 342, 343.
Wood, Anthonyà, ii, 284, 329, iii, 22,
his Athena Oxeniensis, 88
Wood Beyond the World, Morris's, The,
iv, 354

Wood, William, Ha'pence, iii, 243
Woodbridge, iv, 344

Woodcock, Catherine, afterwards Mil-
ton, iii, 17

Wood engraving, i, 238
Woodford, Essex, iv, 99
"Woodkirk" mystery plays, i, 232
Woodstock, i, 143, iii, 168
Wooler's school, Miss, iv, 280, 281
Wooley, Sir Francis, ii, 294
Wootton Bassett, iii, 35

Worcester, Hurd, Bishop, iii, 362
Worcester Book, Anglo-Saxon,
65

character, person, 46; his style, 38,
39, 41, 62, 77; his phrase, iii, 34;
romantic naturalism, iii, 157; speci-
mens, 46-49; portraits, 35, 42; his
Peter Bell, 148, 170; appearance,
169-70

Wordsworth, William, and S. T. Cole-
ridge, iv, 35-39; their Lyrical
Ballads, 36; influence of natural
surroundings, 38; distinction be-
tween, 39

Wordsworth, John, poet's father, iv,

Worcester, King's School, iii, 143
Worcester, Players of the Earl of, ii,
193

Words, Florio's, A World of,

ii,

106
Wordsworth, William, ii, 110, 123,
266, iii, 270, iv, 2, 61, 107, 108, 111,
112, 124, 156, 191, 201, 202, 215.
231, 289, 305, 310; parentage, 43;
birth at Cockermouth, education,
early loss of parents, brought up by
paternal uncles, goes to St. John's
Coll. Camb., visits Switzerland, in
London, goes to France, in sympathy
with Revolutionists, attachment to
his sister Dorothy, publishes The
Evening Walk and Descriptive
Sketches, his friend R. Calvert be-
queaths £900 to Wordsworth, re-
covers share of father's fortune,
settles near Crewkerne, 43, 44;

writes The Borderers, 44; begins

The Excursion, 44; published, 45,
97, 99; visited by Coleridge, 35-39,
44; his Lyrical Ballads, 36, 37, 44;
visits Germany with sister Dorothy,
44, 51; begins The Prelude, 44; re-
turns and settles near Grasmere, 41,
44, 51; marriage with Mary Hut-
chinson, 41, 44; visits Scotland and
writes The Highland Girl, 44; meets
Walter Scott, 44; friendship of Sir
G. Beaumont, writes the Happy
Warrior, 44; prose Convention of
Cintra, 44 his children, 44, 45;
removes to Grasmere, 44; children's
death, 45; moves to Rydal Mount,
45; Distributor of Stamps, 45;
White Doe of Rylstone, 45; Sonnets
on the River, 45; in Switzerland and
Italy, 45; Ecclesiastical Sketches and
Memorials of a Tour on the Conti-
nent, 45; visits Sir Walter Scott at
Abbotsford, 45; mental affliction of
sister and death of his friend Cole-
ridge, 45; Poet Laureate, 46; loss
of favourite daughter, 46; death,

Worms, ii, 100

Worthies of England, History of the,
Fuller, iii, 50

Wotton, Sir Henry, ii, 382, 383, iii,
16, 32, 42; birthplace and education,
383; Ambassador to Venice, ib.;
Provost of Eton, ib.; Life by Izaak
Walton, ib.; iii, 43; style, 383;
portrait, 385

Wotton, Surrey, iii, 116
Wounded Hussar, Campbell, iv, 63
Wrington, iii, 128
Wrest Park, ii, 388
Wright, Mr. Thomas, i, 56
Wriothesley, E., of Southampton, ii,
206, 207

Wrong Box, Stevenson's The, iv,
362

Wulfstan, a Dane, i, 55
Wulfstan, Archbp. of York, i, 60
Wülker, i, 49

Wuthering Heights, E. Brontë, V,

280, 282

Wyatt, Sir Thomas (the elder), i, 347-
352, ii, 2, 123, 130, 137; birth and
lineage, i, 347; travels and friend-
ships, 348; foreign missions, ib.;
death at Sherborne, ib.; first refined
English poet, ib.; introduction of the
sonnet, ib.; portrait, ib.; love lyrics,
350; and Anne Boleyn, 347, 350;
adaptation of Horace's Ode, 351;
naturalised the Terza rima, ib.; ex-
ample, 352

his

Wyatt's insurrection, i, 336
Wycherley, Daniel, iii, 161
Wycherley, William, iii, 196,
Country Wife, 158, 162; Plain
Dealer, 158, 162; birth, parentage,
taken to France, 161; becomes a
Roman Catholic, ib.; returns to Eng.
land and the Church, ib.; in the
Temple and Oxford, ib.; his career,
first comedy, Love in a Wood, ib.;
introduced to Duchess of Cleveland,
ib.; dispute with Duke of Buckingham,
161-2; his wit and charm, 162; The

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Gentleman Dancing Master, 162;
visited Charles II., ib.; marriage
with Dowager Countess of Drogheda,
ib.; ill fortune, ib.; seven years in a
debtors' prison, ib.; pensioned by
James II., ib.; corresponds with A.
Pope, ib.; Poems, ib.; second mar
riage, ib.; death, 162; burial, ib.;
attractive personal appearance, 162;
autograph letter to Lord Halifax,
163
Wycliffe, John, birth, i, 77, 92, 97,
101, 103, 151, 158, 194, 205, 207,
208-12, ii, 99, 100, 208; studies, ib.;
Master of Balliol, ib., 209; Rector
of Fillingham, ib.; commissioner to
Bruges, 209; his treatises De Domino
Divino and De Domino Civili, 210;
John of Gaunt his patron, ib.; sum-
mored for heresy before Bp. of
London, ib.; unpopular with Pre-
lates, ib.; efforts to disseminate the
Scriptures, 211; organises preachers,
ib.; sympathy of University, 211;
views on Transubstantiation, ib.;
peasants' revolt of 1381 attributed to
him, 211; retires to Lutterworth,
212; translation of Bible into Eng-
lish, 212, 269; death, 212; De-
cree of Council of Constance, ib.;
influence on John Huss and Germany,
ib.; pulpit, 212; honoured in recent
times, ib.; disciples, ib.; his version
of Scripture, i, 213, 216; influence
on English language, 218, 219;
theological writings, 219; quotation,
219; character, 220; allusions,
230

Wyndham, Mr. George, ii, 220, 223
Wynners and Wastours, i, 284
Wynkyn de Worde, i, 108, 203, 258,
273, 296
Wyntoun, Andrew, i, 282, 283, 284:
canon of St Andrew's, 284; Metrical
Chronicle, 284, 286

YARMOUTH, Earl of, i, 256
Yarrington, Robert, Two Tragedies in
One, ii, 332

Yarrow revisited, Wordsworth, iv, 45
Yeast, Kingsley, iv, 324
Yeats, Mr., i, 300

Yellowplush Correspondence, Thacke
ray, iv, 274

Ye Mariners of England, Campbell, iv,
63

Ywis and Gawain, i, 117
Yong, Bartholomew, his translations,
ii, 140–141; of Diana of Montemayor,

141

Yorick to Eliza, Sterne's Letters from,
iii, 319
Yorick's skull in Hamlet, ii, 227
Yorick, Sterne's Sermons of Mr., iii,
318

York, i, 40, ii, 373

York early school, i, 35, 38, 40
York "mysteries," i, 228, 230, 231,
232, 235, 237
York and Lancaster, Shakespeare's
Contention of, ii, 204

280-281; birth, education, his poem
of The Last Day, Queen Anne his
godmother, 278; tragedies of Busiris
and The Revenge, 278; Duke of
Wharton his patron, 278; his satires,
The Universal Passion, 279; takes:

Orders at 47, and becomes chaplain
to George II., ib.; marries Lady
Elizabeth Leigh, ib.; his elaborate
and moral poem The Complaint, or
Night Thoughts, ib.; Clerk of the
Closet to Princess Dowager, ib.;
death at Welwyn, ib.; shortcom-
ings of character, 280; epigram on
Voltaire, 281; his rolling iambics,
283; his influence, 283

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