Chapters (50)
- ESSAYS
- INTRODUCTION.
- PREFACE.
- Praed’s Essays.
- RHYME AND REASON.
- ON THE PRACTICAL BATHOS.
- NICKNAMES.
- YES AND NO.
- THOUGHTS ON THE WORDS “TURN OUT.”
- SOLITUDE IN A CROWD.
- POLITENESS AND POLITESSE.
- A WINDSOR BALL.
- LOVERS’ VOWS.
- ON THE PRACTICAL ASYNDETON.
- ON HAIR-DRESSING.
- ON A CERTAIN AGE.
- NOT AT HOME.
- MUSÆ O’CONNORIANÆ. LETTER FROM PATRICK O’CONNOR, ESQ. Enclosing Metrical Versions in the Greek and Latin Tongues.
- Ι.
- II.
- ά.
- β’.
- THE KNIGHT AND THE KNAVE. AΝ OLD ENGLISH TALE.
- MAD—QUITE MAD!
- THE BOGLE OF ANNESLIE; OR, THE THREE-CORNERED HAT. A TALE.
- ON THE PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY AT ETON.
- THE MISTAKE; OR, SIXES AND SEVENS.
- SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.
- MR. LOZELL’S ESSAY ON WEATHERCOCKS.
- GOLIGHTLY’S ESSAY ON BLUES. A FRAGMENT.
- OLD BOOTS.
- ON THE DIVINITIES OF THE ANCIENTS.
- REMINISCENCES OF MY YOUTH.
- ON TRUE FRIENDSHIP.
- THE COUNTRY CURATE.
- THE WEDDING: A ROMAN TALE.
- PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF PEREGRINE COURTENAY.
- I. PEREGRINE OF CLUBS TO GEORGE OF ENGLAND.
- II. PEREGRINE COURTENAY TO MR. BENJ. BOOKWORM.
- III. PEREGRINE COURTENAY TO THE PUBLIC.
- ABDICATION OF THE KING OF CLUBS.
- THE UNION CLUB. A.D. 1823.
- MY FIRST FOLLY.
- POINTS.
- LEONORA.
- DAMASIPPUS.
- MY FIRST FLAME.
- THE INCONVENIENCE OF HAVING AN ELDER BROTHER.
- TOUJOURS PERDRIX.
- THE BEST BAT IN THE SCHOOL.
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