The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Last Essays of Elia
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Chapters (117)
- WITH A FRONTISPIECE
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA TEXT NOTE PAGE PAGE
- APPENDIX TEXT NOTE PAGE PAGE
- FRONTISPIECE
- ELIA
- OXFORD IN THE VACATION
- CHRIST'S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO
- THE TWO RACES OF MEN
- NEW YEAR'S EVE
- MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST
- A CHAPTER ON EARS
- ALL FOOLS' DAY
- THE OLD AND THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER
- VALENTINE'S DAY
- IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES
- WITCHES, AND OTHER NIGHT-FEARS
- MY RELATIONS
- MACKERY END, IN HERTFORDSHIRE
- MODERN GALLANTRY
- THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE
- GRACE BEFORE MEAT
- MY FIRST PLAY
- DREAM-CHILDREN
- DISTANT CORRESPONDENTS
- THE PRAISE OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS
- A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN THE METROPOLIS
- A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG
- A BACHELOR'S COMPLAINT OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF MARRIED PEOPLE
- ON SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS
- ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY
- ON THE ACTING OF MUNDEN
- THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA
- PREFACE
- BLAKESMOOR IN H——-SHIRE
- POOR RELATIONS
- STAGE ILLUSION
- TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON
- ELLISTONIANA
- DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING
- THE OLD MARGATE HOY
- THE CONVALESCENT
- SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS
- CAPTAIN JACKSON
- THE SUPERANNUATED MAN
- THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING
- BARBARA S——
- THE TOMBS IN THE ABBEY
- AMICUS REDIVIVUS
- SOME SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- NEWSPAPERS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
- BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY IN THE PRODUCTIONS OF MODERN ART
- REJOICINGS UPON THE NEW YEAR'S COMING OF AGE
- THE WEDDING
- THE CHILD ANGEL
- A DEATH-BED
- OLD CHINA
- POPULAR FALLACIES
- I.—THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWARD
- II.—THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVER PROSPERS
- III.—THAT A MAN MUST NOT LAUGH AT HIS OWN JEST
- IV.—THAT SUCH A ONE SHOWS HIS BREEDING.—THAT IT IS EASY TO PERCEIVE HE IS NO GENTLEMAN
- V.—THAT THE POOR COPY THE VICES OF THE RICH
- VI.—THAT ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST
- VII.—OF TWO DISPUTANTS, THE WARMEST IS GENERALLY IN THE WRONG
- VIII.—THAT VERBAL ALLUSIONS ARE NOT WIT, BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT BEAR A TRANSLATION
- IX.—THAT THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST
- X.—THAT HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME DOES
- XI.—THAT WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE MOUTH
- XII.—THAT HOME IS HOME THOUGH IT IS NEVER SO HOMELY
- XIII.—THAT YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG
- XIV.—THAT WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK
- XV.—THAT WE SHOULD LIE DOWN WITH THE LAMB
- XVI.—THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE
- APPENDIX
- ON SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS
- THE OLD ACTORS
- THE OLD ACTORS
- MR. SUETT
- MR. MUNDEN
- NOTES
- THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- A
- C
- D
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
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