I. Complete the following statements with a proper word or phrases.

 1. The Revolution of 1688 banished the last of the _______kings.

 2. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties; __________and _____________.

 3. On the extreme of Toryism was a third part of zealots, called the_______, who aimed to bring the Stuarts back to the throne.

 4. Another feature of the age was the rapid development of ______life.

 5. The enlighteners repudiate the false religious doctrines about the _______of human nature, and prove that man is born _____and______, and of he becomes deprived, it is only due to the influence of ________social environment.

 6. It is simply for convenience, therefore, that we study eighteenth-century writings in three main divisions: the reign of so-called_________, the revival of ________poetry, and the beginning of the modern _______

 7. The essays and stories of Addison and Steele were devoted not only to_______, but also to ________and _________..

 8. Pope was a man of extraordinary ____and extensive______, and his contemporaries considered him as the highest _______in matters of literary art.

 9. The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by Daniel Defoe in his famous novel____________.

 10. Fielding’s work unfolds a special ________of life in all sections of English society.

 11. Along with the depiction of morals and manners and social mode of life the writers of the Enlightenment began to display an interest in the ________life of an individual.

 12. In his world-famous novel__________ Jonathan Swift typified the bourgeois world, drew ruthless pictures of the depraved aristocracy and satirically portrayed the whole of the English State system.

 13. False virtues and actual vices of aristocratic society are derided in the plays of Richard B. Sheridan, particularly in his famous comedy___________.

 14. The philosophy of the enlighteners, though______ and ________in its essence, did not exclude senses, or sentiments, as a means of perception and learning.

 15. In________’s novel------ The Vicar of Wakefield------ the________ of the aristocrats and corruption of the town life are contrasted to an _____of quiet family happiness.

 16. The most outstanding figure of English sentimentalism was__________.

 17. The__________ plays an enormous role in the Gothic novel; it is so replete with bloodcurdling scenes and unnatural feelings that it is justly called “ a novel of_______.”

 18. The___________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.

 19. There appeared two groups of English enlighteners, one is the moderate group, the other is the_________.

20. The main literary stream of 18th century was_______. What the writers described were mainly social realities.

21. _______writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the novels were no longer kings and nobles but the common people.

 22. __________is undoubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His “Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” is of great significance.

 23. _______was the most remarkable satirist in the 18th century who criticized the new bourgeois-aristocratic society of his age without mercy.

 24. __________found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.

 25. In the 18th century, ___________found its expression chiefly in poetry. The most important representative poets are William Blake and Robert Burns.

 26. The enlighteners believed that reason should be the only basis of one’s thinking and action. That is why the eighteenth century in England has been called the Age of______.

 27. In writing plays, the writers used _______instead of blank verse. They observed the three unties of time, place and ______.

 28. The exciting tale of Robinson Crusoe is largely _______story, rather than the story of ___________.

 29. In The Shortest War with the Dissenters, in a vein of grim______, Defoe advocated hanging all dissenting ministers, and sending all member of the free churches into exile.

 30. The full name of Robinson Crusoe is ____________________________________________. 31. The story of Robinson Crusoe itself is real enough to have come straight from a sailor’s_______.

 32. Robinson names _______to commemorate the day of the savage’s rescue.

 33. The 18th century produced the first English novelists, who falls into two groups, one is the sentimental novelists, the other is the _______.

 34. Swift was born of English parents in______.

 35. The 18th century in English literature is an age of_______.

 36. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, the hero Gulliver is cast upon the shore of the island of_________.

 37. _________ranks among the greatest satirist of England, and of the world. A Modest Proposal is one of his satirical works.

 38. Steele conceived the idea of starting a paper which should contain news, gossip, stories of everyday life, and jokes on all sorts of people. He called it________.

 39. To Addison is doubtless due in large measure the maintenance of this______ censorship which was carried on in The Spectator.

 40. _________was the greatest novelist of the 18th century.

 41. Fielding’s first novel, Joseph Andrews, was inspired by the success of Richardson’s novel_________.

 42. In his works Fielding strongly criticized __________in the contemporary England.

 43. Fielding hates that hypocrisy which tries to conceal itself under a mask of________.

 44. The writer of The History of Tom Jones, a foundling is_________.

 45. Sheridan’s famous comedy, ___________was written in his 24 year.

 46. Sheridan’s famous comedy___________, written in 1777, is considered his masterpiece.

 47. Of all the romantic poets of the 18th century, Blake is the most ________and the most________.

 48. For greater part of Blake’s life he was the poet of inspiration alone, following no man’s____, and obeying no voice but that which he heard in his own mystic_____.

 49. After three years at Felpham Blake moved back to London, determined to follow his “_________” though it meant a life of isolation, misunderstanding, and poverty.

 50. The outstanding theme of ____________is the all pervading presence of divine and sympathy, even in trouble and sorrow.

 51. In 1790, Blake engraved his principle prose work, ________________in which, with vigorous satire and telling apologue, he takes up his revolutionary position.

 52. _________________are in marked contrast with The Songs of Innocence. The brightness of the earlier work gives place to a sense of ________and mystery, and of the power of_____.

 53. The Greatest of_______ poets, Robert Burns, was born in a peasant’s clay-built cottage, a mile and a half south of Ayr.

 54. In 1786, when he was 27 years old, he resolved to abandon the struggle and seek position in the far-off island of_______.

 55. Burns’ poetry is bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of the ________common people.

 56. The author of The Tiger is______.

 57. 200 years ago, in London, the _________were the social centers where men met and heard the news and talked of books and politics and lighter things.