In Great Britain the several and successive periods might thus bewell designated by such authors as Geoffrey Chaucer or John Wiclif, Thomas More or Henry Howard,Edmund Spenser or Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakspere or Francis Bacon, John Milton or Jeremy Taylor,John Dryden or John Locke, Joseph Addison or Joseph Butler, Samuel Johnson or Oliver Goldsmith, WilliamCowper or John Wesley, Walter Sco