Elia and The Last Essays of Elia / Charles Lamb, by Charles Lamb

Introduction

Elia

1. The South-Sea House
2. Oxford in the Vacation
3. Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
4. The Two Races of Men
5. New Year’s Eve
6. Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist
7. A Chapter on Ears
8. All Fools’ Day
9. A Quaker’s Meeting
10. The Old and the New Schoolmaster
11. Valentine’s Day
12. Imperfect Sympathies
13. Witches, and Other Night-Fears
14. My Relations
15. Mackery End, in Hertfordshire
16. Modern Gallantry
17. The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple
18. Grace Before Meat
19. My First Play
20. Dream-Children; a Reverie
21. Distant Correspondents; in a Letter to B.f. Esq. At Sydney, New South Wales
22. The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
23. A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis
24. A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig
25. A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
26. On Some of the Old Actors
27. On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century
28. On the Acting of Munden

Notes to Elia

The Last Essays of Elia

• Preface By a Friend of the Late Elia

1. Blakesmoor in H——— Shire
2. Poor Relations
3. Stage Illusion
4. To the Shade of Elliston
5. Plaudito, Et Valeto
6. Ellistoniana
7. Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
8. The Old Margate Hoy
9. The Convalescent
10. Sanity of True Genius
11. Captain Jackson
12. The Superannuated Man
13. The Genteel Style in Writing
14. Barbara S——
15. The Tombs in the Abbey; in a Letter to R—— S——, Esq.
16. Amicus Redivivus
17. Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney
18. Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago
19. Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art
20. Rejoicings Upon the New Year’s Coming of Age
21. The Wedding
22. The Child Angel A Dream
23. A Death-Bed In a Letter to R.H. Esq. of B——
24. Old China
25. Popular Fallacies
    1. i. — That a Bully is Always a Coward
    2. ii. — That ill-Gotten Gain Never Prospers
    3. iii. — That a Man Must Not Laugh at His Own Jest
    4. iv. — That Such a One Shows His Breeding. — That it is Easy to Perceive he is No Gentleman
    5. v. — That the Poor Copy the Vices of the Rich
    6. vi. — That Enough is as Good as a Feast
    7. vii. — Of Two Disputants, the Warmest is Generally in the Wrong
    8. viii. — That Verbal Allusions are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation
    9. ix. — That the Worst Puns are the Best
    10. x. — That Handsome is that Handsome Does
    11. xi. — That We Must Not Look a Gift-Horse in the Mouth
    12. xii. — That Home is Home Though it is Never So Homely
    13. xiii. — That You Must Love Me, and Love My Dog
    14. xiv. — That We Should Rise with the Lark
    15. xv. — That We Should Lie Down with the Lamb
    16. xvi. — That a Sulky Temper is a Misfortune

Notes to The Last Essays of Elia

Appendix Lamb’s essays on “The Old Actors” as originally printed in the London Magazine.

1. On Some of the Old Actors (London Magazine, Feb., 1822)
2. The Old Actors (London Magazine, April, 1822)
3. The Old Actors (London Magazine, October, 1822)
4. Mr. Suett
5. Mr. Munden

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