CHAPTER XXVIII.

STERNE, GOLDSMITH, AND MACKENZIE.

The Subjective School--Sterne: Sermons--Tristram Shandy--Sentimental Journey--Oliver Goldsmith--Poems: The Vicar--Histories, and Other Works--Mackenzie--The Man of Feeling 296

THE HISTORICAL TRIAD IN THE SCEPTICAL AGE.

The Sceptical Age--David Hume--History of England--Metaphysics--Essay on Miracles--Robertson--Histories--Gibbon--The Decline and Fall 309

SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS TIMES.

Early Life and Career--London--Rambler and Idler--The Dictionary--Other Works--Lives of the Poets--Person and Character--Style--Junius 324

THE LITERARY FORGERS IN THE ANTIQUARIAN AGE.

The Eighteenth Century--James Macpherson--Ossian--Thomas Chatterton--His Poems--The Verdict--Suicide--The Cause 334