The Grounds of his Fame--Creation of Character--Imagination and
Fancy--Power of Expression--His Faults--Influence of
Elizabeth--Sonnets--Ireland and Collier--Concordance--Other Writers


CHAPTER XVI.

BACON, AND THE RISE OF THE NEW PHILOSOPHY.

Birth and Early Life--Treatment of Essex--His Appointments--His
Fall--Writes Philosophy--Magna Instauratio--His Defects--His Fame--His
Essays


CHAPTER XVII.

THE ENGLISH BIBLE.

Early Versions--The Septuagint--The Vulgate--Wiclif;
Tyndale--Coverdale; Cranmer--Geneva; Bishop's Bible--King James's
Bible--Language of the Bible--Revision


CHAPTER XVIII.

JOHN MILTON, AND THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH.

Historical Facts--Charles I.--Religious Extremes--Cromwell--Birth and
Early Works--Views of Marriage--Other Prose Works--Effects of the
Restoration--Estimate of his Prose