Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . hundred years it is as great a pleasure to read it as itwas in Queen Annes time. Some of the best of it is foundin Addisons articles in the S-pectator. This paper made noattempt to tell the news of the day, but presented brilliantessays that jested good-humouredly at the faults of the times,and interesting sketches of what was going on in the busyEnglish world. Many numbers were written by Addisonalone. Dean Swift, the author of Gullivers Travels, and
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . hundred years it is as great a pleasure to read it as itwas in Queen Annes time. Some of the best of it is foundin Addisons articles in the S-pectator. This paper made noattempt to tell the news of the day, but presented brilliantessays that jested good-humouredly at the faults of the times,and interesting sketches of what was going on in the busyEnglish world. Many numbers were written by Addisonalone. Dean Swift, the author of Gullivers Travels, andDaniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, were amongthe most brilliant politicalwriters of the day. The works of Alexander Popewell represent the poetry of theage of Anne. His ideas werekeen and sensible and well ex-pressed, and his couplets are,therefore, so often quoted thatno one can read his poems with-out finding many familiar lines;and yet the poetry of the timedoes not make us feel as if thewriter was so full of lofty andbeautiful thoughts that he could not help writing, butrather as if he had tried his best to put every thought. Dean Swiir 212 HISTORY OF ENGLAND [1702-14 that he did have in the words that would express itmost strikingly. 212. The last Stuart sovereign.—Anne was the last of theStuarts to wear the English crown. Her half-brother, JamesEdward, still lived, and it is quite possible that he might havebeen made king of Great Britain, if he had been willingto become a Protestant. Annes children had all died,and the crown went, as Parliament had decided in theAct of Settlement, to a German prince, George, Elector ofHanover, the son of the Princess Sophia. Britain hadhad a Norman king and a Dutch king; now, she was tobe ruled by a German. SUMMARY Queen Annes reign is famous for the excellence of its prose literatureand for its foreign victories. To prevent an alliance between Franceand Spain and the consequent triumph of France in Europe, Englanddeclared wa
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