The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 eBook

Charles Lamb

Table of Contents
Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
FRONTISPIECE	1
ELIA	1
THE SOUTH-SEA HOUSE	1
OXFORD IN THE VACATION	6
CHRIST’S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO	10
THE TWO RACES OF MEN	20
NEW YEAR’S EVE	24
THE NEW YEAR	28
MRS. BATTLE’S OPINIONS ON WHIST	29
A CHAPTER ON EARS	34
ALL FOOLS’ DAY	37
A QUAKER’S MEETING	40
THE OLD AND THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER	43
VALENTINE’S DAY	49
IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES	52
WITCHES, AND OTHER NIGHT-FEARS	58
MY RELATIONS	63
MACKERY END, IN HERTFORDSHIRE	67
MODERN GALLANTRY	71
THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE	74
GRACE BEFORE MEAT	82
MY FIRST PLAY	87
DREAM-CHILDREN	90
DISTANT CORRESPONDENTS	93
THE PRAISE OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS	97
A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN THE METROPOLIS	103
A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG	108
A BACHELOR’S COMPLAINT OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF MARRIED PEOPLE	113
ON SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS	118
ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY	127
ON THE ACTING OF MUNDEN	133
THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA	134
PREFACE	134
POOR RELATIONS	140
STAGE ILLUSION	145
TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON	148
PLAUDITO, ET VALETO	149
DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING	153
THE OLD MARGATE HOY	157
THE CONVALESCENT	163
SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS	166
CAPTAIN JACKSON	169
THE SUPERANNUATED MAN	172
THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING	177
BARBARA S——	180
THE TOMBS IN THE ABBEY	184
AMICUS REDIVIVUS	186
SOME SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY	190
NEWSPAPERS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO	196
BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY IN THE PRODUCTIONS OF MODERN ART	201
REJOICINGS UPON THE NEW YEAR’S COMING OF AGE	209
THE WEDDING	213
THE CHILD ANGEL	217
A DEATH-BED	219
OLD CHINA	220
POPULAR FALLACIES	225
II.—THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVER PROSPERS	225
III.—THAT A MAN MUST NOT LAUGH AT HIS OWN JEST	226
	226
V.—THAT THE POOR COPY THE VICES OF THE RICH	226
VI.—THAT ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST	228
VII.—OF TWO DISPUTANTS, THE WARMEST IS GENERALLY IN THE WRONG	228
	229
IX.—THAT THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST	229
X.—THAT HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME DOES	231
XI.—THAT WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE MOUTH	233
XII.—THAT HOME IS HOME THOUGH IT IS NEVER SO HOMELY	234
XIII.—THAT YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG	237
XIV.—THAT WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK	240
XV.—THAT WE SHOULD LIE DOWN WITH THE LAMB	242
XVI.—THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE	243
APPENDIX	245
ON SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS	246
THE OLD ACTORS	253
THE OLD ACTORS	262
MR. SUETT	263
MR. MUNDEN	265
NOTES	266
HOLIDAYS KEPT AT CHRIST’S HOSPITAL	280
THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA	327
APPENDIX	366
INDEX	366
B	367
C	368
D	369
E	369
F	369
G	370
H	370
I	371
J	371
K	371
L	371
M	375
N	375
O	376
P	376
Q	376
R	376
S	377
T	377
U	378
V	378
W	378
Y	379

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