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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

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A sequence of short, conversational essays offers personal recollections, city sketches, literary and theatrical criticism, and whimsical ruminations, blending gentle humor with melancholy. The writer moves between childhood memories and anecdotes about schooling, family, and old acquaintances; portraits of London streets, institutions, and actors; reflections on books, reading, and writing; playful philosophical lists of popular fallacies; and meditative pieces on mortality and domestic life. Tone alternates between affectionate nostalgia and ironic commentary, favoring an intimate voice, vivid detail, and a digressive structure that rewards close, attentive reading.

Macaulay, Lord, 399.
MACKERY END, IN HERTFORDSHIRE, 86, 375.
Mackintosh, Sir James, 433.
Macready, W.C., and Lamb, 423.
Maginn, William, 365.
Make-believe, an artist in, 215.
Malone, Edmund, 198, 413.
Malvolio, the character of, 316.
Man, Henry, 6, 344.
Manning, Miss Anne, quoted, 378.
— Thomas, 56, 369.
—— and "Roast Pig," 137, 396.
—— Lamb's letter to, 376, 444.
—— and Baron Maseres, 383.
Margate, Lamb at, 415.
  Hoy, Lamb's essay on, 201, 415.
Marriage, Lamb on, 144.
Married people, Lamb's essay on, 144, 397.
Marshal, Godwin's friend, 329, 444.
Martin, John, 259, 434.
Marvell, Andrew, quoted, 96, 176.
Maseres, Baron, 103, 383.
Mathews, Charles, his pictures, 331, 445.
Mendicity, Society for Suppression of, 130, 392.
Merry, Robert, 304, 443.
Micawber, Wilkins, anticipated, 356, 417.
Middleton, Thomas Fanshaw, 23, 24, 354.
Milton, John, on education, 60, 369.
—— Lamb on, 107.
—— adapted by Lamb, 188.
—— on the Arcadia, 242.
—— and the civil war, 242.
—— his Latin sonnet, "Ad Leonoram," 243, 426.
—— Lamb's copy of, 412.
Mingay, James, 102, 383.
MODERN GALLANTRY, 90, 377.
Money, sayings concerning, 290.
Montagu, Basil, 12, 252, 348, 431.
  Lady Mary Wortley, 381.
Montgomery, James, and Lamb, 390.
Moore, Thomas, his Loves of the Angels, 276, 437.
Moore's Diary quoted, 411.
Morning Chronicle and Lamb, 429, 431.
Herald, 413.
Post and Lamb, 249, 429.
Mothers and daughters, Lamb on, 273.
"Mourning Bride," Mary Lamb's first play, 387.
Moxon, Lamb's letter to, 434.
Mozart, Lamb copes with, successfully, 364.
"Mr. H." and Elliston, 409.
MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST, 37, 361.
Munden, Joseph Shepherd, 168, 400.
Music, Lamb's difficulty with, 44, 363.
MY FIRST PLAY, 110, 385.
My good friend, for favours to my son and wife, 382.
MY RELATIONS, 80, 373.

N

Names of poets, Lamb on, 198.
Negroes, Lamb on, 71.
New Monthly Magazine, 342.
——— Lamb's contributions to, 212, 226, 286-309.
New River, the, and G.D., 237, 424.
NEW YEAR'S EVE, 31, 358.
Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of, 30, 87, 131, 197, 357, 393, 412.
NEWSPAPERS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, 249, 428.
Newspaper stamps, 433.
Night-fears, Lamb on, 77.
Nobleman, The Unfortunate Young, 81.
Norris, Randal, 279, 416, 437.
North, Christopher (John Wilson), 371.
Novello, Vincent, 47, 363.
Nyren, John, 363.

O

Odes and Addresses quoted, 392.
OF TWO DISPUTANTS, THE WARMEST IS GENERALLY IN THE WRONG, 291, 440.
Ogilvie, his memories of G.D., 424.
OLD ACTORS, THE, 322, 444.
— BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE, THE, 94, 379.
— CHINA, 281, 438.
— MARGATE HOY, THE, 201, 415.
OLD AND THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER, THE, 56, 369.
"Olen," Sir C.A. Elton's pseudonym, 358.
O melancholy Bird, a winter's day, 427.
One parent vet is left,—a wretched thing, 382.
ON SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS, 150, 397. See also APPENDIX.
ON THE ACTING OF MUNDEN, 168, 400. See also APPENDIX.
ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY, 161, 399. See also
  APPENDIX.
Orrery lectures, 60, 370.
OXFORD IN THE VACATION, 8, 345.
Oxford, Lamb at, 8, 345.

P

Paice, Joseph, 92, 343, 378.
Palmer, John, 159, 399.
Paltock's Peter Wilkins, 21, 122, 353.
Paracelsus, Lamb on, 196.
Paradise Regained, 107.
Patmore, P.G., on Lamb, 403.
—— Lamb's letter to, 436.
—— on Lamb's dress, 438.
Peirson, Peter, 101, 382.
  Susannah, 99, 381.
Penn, William, and the judges, 73.
Perry, James, 250, 431.
Peter Wilkins, 21, 122, 353.
"Peter's Net," 428, 431.
Pianoforte, Lamb's solo, 44.
Pig, Lamb's essay upon, 137, 395.
Piombo, his "Raising of Lazarus," 262, 435.
Piquet and Mrs. Battle, 41.
Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, 394.
Playgoing, the Lambs, 283.
Plumer, Richard, 7, 344.
— Walter, 7, 40, 345, 362.
— William, 344, 389, 405.
Poetical Pieces on Several Occasions by John Lamb, 381.
Polar expeditions, 58, 369.
Poor, Lamb on the, 288, 298.
POOR RELATIONS, 178, 408.
Pope, Alexander, The Rape of the Lock, 38.
— Miss, 167, 400.
POPULAR FALLACIES, 212, 226, 286, 287, 288, 290, 291, 292, 294, 296, 298,
  302, 305, 308, 309, 439 et seq.
Pork, Lamb's essay on, 137.
Porphyry on Abstinence from Animal Food, 396.
Poverty and pleasure, 282.
Powell, Mrs., 151.
PRAISE OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS, THE, 124, 390.
Presentation copies, Lamb on, 297, 441.
Presents, Lamb on, 296.
Procter, B.W. (Barry Cornwall), his dream, 79, 373.
—— quoted, 371, 377.
—— on Munden, 400.
Puckeridge and Lamb's property, 112.
Pulham, Brook, 363.
Punning, Lamb on, 122, 292, 441.
Puritans and Sunday, 418.

Q

Quadrille and Mrs. Battle, 38.
Quakerism and Lamb, 368.
QUAKER'S MEETING, A, 51, 367.
Quarrels, Lamb on, 309.
Quick, John, 332.
Quixote, Don, 154, 265, 398, 435.

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Ramsay, London Librarian, 49, 367.
Raphael, his "Bible," 257.
Raymond, George, his Memoirs of Elliston, 410.
Reade, John, 102, 383.
Reading, Lamb's essay upon, 195, 411.
Red stockings, and Lamb's jokes, 251, 429.
Reflector, The, Lamb's contribution to, 144.
—— Moxon's paper, 434.
REJOICINGS UPON THE NEW YEAR'S COMING OF AGE, 266, 436.
Relations, poor, Lamb s essay on, 178, 408.
Restoration comedy, Lamb on, 160, 161.
Rickman, Mrs. John, Lamb's opinion of, 397.
Robinson, Crabb, quoted, 370.
—— Lamb's letters to, 374, 437.
—— on Lamb's books, 411.
Romano, Julio, 263.
Rover, in "Wild Oats," 188.
Roydon, Matthew, his elegy upon Sidney, 248, 428.
Rutter, Mr. J.A., his notes on Lamb, 343.

S

St. Dunstan's giants, 192, 410.
Saloop, Lamb on, 125.
Salt, Samuel, 98, 352, 380.
Samuel and the Witch of Endor, 75, 372.
Sandwich, Lord, epigram on, 344.
SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS, 212, 416.
Sargus, Mr. Lamb's tenant, 386.
"School for Scandal," Lamb on, 164.
School-days, Lamb on his, 14.
Schoolmasters, Lamb's essay on, 56, 369.
Scotchmen, Lamb on, 67, 371.
Scott, John, editor of the London, 340.
Sea, the, Lamb on, 204.
Sedition, Lamb's exercises in, 255.
Selden, John, 104, 384.
Sensitiveness, Lamb on, 181.
Sewel, William, historian of Quakers, 369.
Shaftesbury, Lord, 226, 420.
Shakespeare, Lamb on, 197, 412.
— his bust at Stratford-on-Avon, 198, 413.
Sharp, Granville, 50, 367.
Shenstone, William, 243, 426.
Sheridan, R.B., 26, 111, 167, 356, 385, 400.
Siddons, Mrs., in "Isabella," 114, 388.
Sidney, Sir Philip, his sonnets, 242, 426.
Sitting up late, Lamb on, 308.
Smith, the Scotchman, 69, 370.
  John Thomas, 394.
Smollett, Tobias George, 70, 371.
Smuggling, Lamb on, 207.
SOME SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, 242, 426.
So should it be, my gentle friend, 426.
South Downs, Lamb on, 415.
SOUTH-SEA HOUSE, THE, 1, 342.
Southey at Westminster School, 235.
— Robert, his criticism of Elia, 359.
— Lamb's letters to, 384, 406, 419, 423, 436.
Spencer, Lord, epigram on, 344.
Spenser, Lamb's copy of the Faerie Queene, 413.
Stackhouse's History of the Bible, 75, 372.
STAGE ILLUSION, 185, 408.
Stanhope, Lord, 433.
Stocks, Lamb in the, 363.
Stranger, to whom this monument is shown, 413.
Stuart, Daniel, 250, 429. 430.
Suett, Dicky, 157, 399.
Sulkiness, its pleasures, 309.
Sun-dials in the Temple, 95.
SUPERANNUATED MAN, THE, 219, 417.
Superannuation, Lamb on, 219, 307.
Surface, Joseph and Charles, 166.
Swift's Ars Punica, 293, 441.

T

Taylor, Bishop, on the sunrise, 309.
— John, 337, 341, 358.
Teeth, Lamb's admiration of, 127.
Temple, The, and Lamb, 94, 113, 379, 387.
— the winged horse, 97.
— Sir William, 226, 420,
THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWARD, 286, 440.
— A MAN MUST NOT LAUGH AT HIS OWN JEST, 287, 440.
— A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE, 309, 443.
— ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST, 290, 440.
— HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES, 294, 441.
— HOME IS HOME THOUGH IT IS NEVER SO HOMELY, 298, 442.
— ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVER PROSPERS, 287, 440.
— SUCH A ONE SHOWS HIS BREEDING, ETC., 288, 440.
— THE POOR COPY THE VICES OF THE RICH, 288, 440.
— THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST, 292, 440.
— VERBAL ALLUSIONS ARE NOT WIT, ETC., 292, 440.
— WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE MOUTH. 296, 441.
— WE SHOULD LIE DOWN WITH THE LAME, 308, 443.
— WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK, 305, 443.
— YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG, 302, 442.
The chatt'ring Magpye undertook, 437.
Thelwall, John, 376.
They talk of time, and of time's galling yoke, 359.
Thomson, James, 70.
Though thou'rt like Judas, an apostate black, 433.
Thurlow, Lord, his sonnet, 427.
Tipp, John, 5, 343.
Titian, his "Ariadne," 256, 434.
To every one (so have ye faith) is given, 426.
TO THE SHADE OK ELLISTON, 188, 409.
Tobin, James Webbe, 16, 352.
— John, 199, 413.
TOMBS IN THE ABBEY, THE, 235, 423.
Tristram Shandy, a parallel to Lamb, 403.
Trollope, A.W., quoted, 351.
Turkish Spy and Lamb's roast-pig essay, 395.
Turner, J.M.W., 258, 434.
"Twelfth Night," Lamb's remarks on, 150, 153, 284, 316.
Twelve Cæsars, 405, 406.
Two Lords whose names if I should quote, 344.
TWO RACES OF MEN, THE, 26, 355.
Twopenny, Richard, 102, 383.
— post in 1825, 370.

U

Ugliness, Lamb on, 295.
Unitarianism, 81, 373.

V

VALENTINE'S DAY, 63, 370.
Vallans, his "Tale of Two Swans," 375.
Virgil, his Latin pun, 294, 441.
Visitors, Lamb on, 301, 442.

W

Wainewright, T.G., 395, 439. Ward, Robert, afterwards Plumer-Ward, 405. Watering-places, Lamb on, 201, 415. Weathercock, Janus. See Wainewright. WEDDING, THE, 271, 436. — an interrupted, 305. Westminster Abbey, the price for admission, 235, 423. Westwood, Thomas, on Lamb, 441. We were two pretty babes, the youngest she, 360. Wharry, John, 102, 383. What can be hop'd from Priests who, 'gainst the Poor, 424. What seem'd his tail the likeness of a kingly kick had on, 409. Whist, 37, 275, 361, 362, 437. White, James, 123, 157, 390, 391. —— and the chimney-sweepers, 128. —— and Dodd, 157. "Wild Oats," 188. Who first invented work—and bound the free, 419. Wilson, John. See Christopher North. Winstanley, Susan, and Joseph Paice, 92. WITCHES, AND OTHER NIGHT-FEARS, 74, 372. Woolman, John, 54, 369. Wordsworth, Mrs., Lamb's letter to, 442. — William, his "Yarrow Visited," 89, 377. —— Lamb's letters to, 356, 388, 412, 417, 418, 434. —— his theory of language, 394. —— his "Anecdote for Fathers," 395. —— his "Poet's Epitaph," 438. "Work," Lamb's sonnet on, 419. Worthing and the Lambs, 415. Wrench, Benjamin, 191, 410. Wycherley, Lamb on, 162.

Y

Yet can I fancy, wandering 'mid thy towers, 346.