The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose

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Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847

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40988

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Contents

1. 1.THE WORKS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB — 1. MISCELLANEOUS PROSE (1798-1834) — MISCELLANEOUS PROSE
2. 2.PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ROSAMUND GRAY — CHAPTER I — CHAPTER II — CHAPTER III — CHAPTER IV — CHAPTER V — CHAPTER VI — CHAPTER VII — CHAPTER VIII — CHAPTER IX — CHAPTER X — CHAPTER XI — CHAPTER XII — CHAPTER XIII
5. 5.CURIOUS FRAGMENTS, — EXTRACT I — EXTRACT II — EXTRACT III
6. 6.EARLY JOURNALISM — I.—G. F. COOKE IN "RICHARD THE THIRD" — II.—GRAND STATE BED — III.—FABLE FOR TWELFTH DAY — IV.—THE LONDONER
7. 7.CHARACTERS OF DRAMATIC WRITERS, CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKSPEARE. — Christopher Marlowe — Thomas Decker — John Marston — Author Unknown — Thomas Heywood — Thomas Middleton and William Rowley — William Rowley — Thomas Middleton — William Rowley,—Thomas Decker,—John Ford , &c. — Cyril Tourneur — John Webster — John Ford — Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke — Ben Jonson — George Chapman — Francis Beaumont.—John Fletcher — John Fletcher — Philip Massinger.—Thomas Decker — Philip Massinger.—Thomas Middleton.—William Rowley — James Shirley
8. 8.ON THE INCONVENIENCES RESULTING FROM BEING HANGED
9. 9.ON THE DANGER OF CONFOUNDING MORAL WITH PERSONAL DEFORMITY; WITH A HINT TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE FRAMING OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR APPREHENDING OFFENDERS — "FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.
10. 10.ON THE AMBIGUITIES ARISING FROM PROPER NAMES
11. 11.ON THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF HOGARTH; WITH SOME REMARKS ON A PASSAGE IN THE WRITINGS OF THE LATE MR. BARRY
12. 12.ON THE CUSTOM OF HISSING AT THE THEATRES, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A CLUB OF DAMNED AUTHORS
13. 13.ON BURIAL SOCIETIES; AND THE CHARACTER OF AN UNDERTAKER — " Burial Society — Character of an Undertaker
14. 14.ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKSPEARE, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR FITNESS FOR STAGE REPRESENTATION
15. 15.SPECIMENS FROM THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN
16. 16.EDAX ON APPETITE
17. 17.HOSPITA ON THE IMMODERATE INDULGENCE OF THE PLEASURES OF THE PALATE
18. 18.THE GOOD CLERK, A CHARACTER; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF "THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN"
19. 19.MÉMOIR OF ROBERT LLOYD
20. 20.CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD
21. 21.RECOLLECTIONS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL
22. 22.TABLE-TALK IN THE EXAMINER — I.—REYNOLDS AND LEONARDO DA VINCI — II.—[THE NEW ACTING] — III.—[BOOKS WITH ONE IDEA IN THEM] — IV.—[A SYLVAN SURPRISE] — V.—[STREET CONVERSATION] — VI.—[A TOWN RESIDENCE] — VII.—[GRAY'S BARD ] — VIII.—[AN AMERICAN WAR FOR HELEN] — Ad Mariulam suam Autor — The Author to his Moggy — IX.—[DRYDEN AND COLLIER] — X.—PLAY-HOUSE MEMORANDA
23. 23.REVIEW OF THE EXCURSION; A POEM
24. 24.ON THE MELANCHOLY OF TAILORS
25. 25.ON NEEDLE-WORK
26. 26.ON THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE WITHER
27. 27.FIVE DRAMATIC CRITICISMS — I.—MRS. GOULD (MISS BURRELL) IN "DON GIOVANNI IN LONDON" — II.—MISS KELLY AT BATH — III.—RICHARD BROME'S "JOVIAL CREW" — IV.—ISAAC BICKERSTAFF'S "HYPOCRITE" — V.—NEW PIECES AT THE LYCEUM
28. 28.FOUR REVIEWS — I.— FALSTAFF'S LETTERS — Falstaff to the Prince — The Same to the Same — Again — Davy to Shallow — II.—CHARLES LLOYD'S POEMS — III.—BARRON FIELD'S POEMS — "The Kangaroo" — IV.—KEATS' "LAMIA"
29. 29.SIR THOMAS MORE
30. 30.THE CONFESSIONS OF H. F. V. H. DELAMORE, Esq .
31. 31.THE GENTLE GIANTESS
32. 32.LETTER TO AN OLD GENTLEMAN WHOSE EDUCATION HAS BEEN NEGLECTED
33. 33.RITSON VERSUS JOHN SCOTT THE QUAKER — DYER'S RUINS OF ROME — DENHAM'S COOPER'S HILL — COLLINS'S ORIENTAL ECLOGUES — GRAY'S CHURCH-YARD ELEGY — GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE — ON THE DEATH OF MR. DENNIS — THOMSON'S SEASONS — HAYMAKING — SHEEP-SHEARING
34. 34.LETTER OF ELIA TO ROBERT SOUTHEY
35. 35.GUY FAUX
36. 36.NUGÆ CRITICÆ — Charles the Fifth besieges Algier
37. 37.ORIGINAL LETTER OF JAMES THOMSON
38. 38.BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF MR. LISTON
39. 39.A VISION OF HORNS
40. 40.THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEFUNCT [49]
41. 41.UNITARIAN PROTESTS
42. 42.AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MR. MUNDEN
43. 43.THE "LEPUS" PAPERS — I.—MANY FRIENDS — II.—READERS AGAINST THE GRAIN — III.—MORTIFICATIONS OF AN AUTHOR — IV.—TOM PRY — V.—TOM PRY'S WIFE — VI.—A CHARACTER
44. 44.REFLECTIONS IN THE PILLORY
45. 45.THE LAST PEACH
46. 46."ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE"
47. 47.THE RELIGION OF ACTORS
48. 48.A POPULAR FALLACY
49. 49.REMINISCENCES OF JUKE JUDKINS, ESQ., OF BIRMINGHAM
50. 50.CONTRIBUTIONS TO HONE'S EVERY-DAY BOOK AND TABLE BOOK — I.—REMARKABLE CORRESPONDENT — II.—CAPTAIN STARKEY — III.—TWELFTH OF AUGUST — IV.—THE ASS — V.—IN RE SQUIRRELS — VI.—AN APPEARANCE OF THE SEASON — VII.—THE MONTHS — The Twelve Months of the Year — VIII.—REMINISCENCE OF SIR JEFFERY DUNSTAN — IX—MRS. GILPIN RIDING TO EDMONTON — X.—THE DEFEAT OF TIME;
51. 51.AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
52. 52.SHAKSPEARE'S IMPROVERS
53. 53.SATURDAY NIGHT
54. 54.ESTIMATE OF DE FOE'S SECONDARY NOVELS
55. 55.CLARENCE SONGS — CLARENCE SONGS.—No. II
56. 56.RECOLLECTIONS OF A LATE ROYAL ACADEMICIAN
57. 57.THE LATIN POEMS OF VINCENT BOURNE — IN STATUAM SEPULCHRALEM INFANTIS DORMIENTIS — WHAT IS AN ALBUM?
58. 58.THE DEATH OF MUNDEN
59. 59.THOUGHTS ON PRESENTS OF GAME, &c.
60. 60.TABLE-TALK BY THE LATE ELIA
61. 61.THE DEATH OF COLERIDGE
62. 62.CUPID'S REVENGE
63. 63.APPENDIX
64. 64.SCRAPS OF CRITICISM
65. 65.THE MISCELLANY — The Spirit Enters.
66. 66.COMIC TALES, Etc .,
67. 67.DOG DAYS
68. 68.THE PROGRESS OF CANT
69. 69.MR. EPHRAIM WAGSTAFF, HIS WIFE, AND PIPE
70. 70.REVIEW OF MOXON'S SONNETS
71. 71.NOTES — TO MARTIN CHARLES BURNEY, ESQ. — WICLIFFE — FOR THE MEMORY
72. 72.APPENDIX
73. 73.INDEX
74. 74.Transcriber's Notes

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