Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . nt volume. In poetry, as has been seen, the period, though one of Proae:fruitful activity, was at the same time to some extent also a of transition and tentative effort. For the rich andsteady development of English literature upon establishedlines we must look to the department of history. The quarterof a century from 1S40 to 18(J5 was singularly distinguished inthe production or commenceme
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . nt volume. In poetry, as has been seen, the period, though one of Proae:fruitful activity, was at the same time to some extent also a of transition and tentative effort. For the rich andsteady development of English literature upon establishedlines we must look to the department of history. The quarterof a century from 1S40 to 18(J5 was singularly distinguished inthe production or commencement of memorable historical worksand the foundation or coronation of edifices of historical 386 THE RULE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. 11846 Macaulays magiiiticeut fragment of a history of England belongs,as noticed in the preceding chapter (p. 216), to the period; andto it belongs also the completion of what is still the best historyof Greece, by Bishop Thirl wall (1797-1875), a writer of muchlearning, no mean literary skill, and strong liberal prepossessionscontrolled by an admirably judicial mind ; and the rival work onthe same subject by George Grote (1794—1871), which, though. HENRY HART JIILIIAX, I!V (i. F. WATTS, Poitruit inllkru.) wanting alike in the style and the scholarship of Thirlwallsliistory, and too often declining in its political disquisitions tothe level of a mere Radical pamphlet, yet by the animation andgraphic power of its narrative deserved at least some measureof the popularity which it obtained (p. (j(i,S). In 1856 H. (1791-1868; afterwards Dean of St. Pauls), a disciple,imitator, and editor of Gibbon, published the History of LatinChristianity, the worthiest of his works; and in the sameyear appeared the first volume of tliat history of England, fromtiie Fall of Woisey to the Defeat of the Armada, which, when LITERATURE. 387 1865] completed in 1869, was to establish the position of JamesAnthony Froude (1818-94) as one of the g
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