PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

CONTENTS

ROSAMUND GRAY

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CURIOUS FRAGMENTS,

EXTRACT I

EXTRACT II

EXTRACT III

EARLY JOURNALISM

I.—G. F. COOKE IN "RICHARD THE THIRD"

II.—GRAND STATE BED

III.—FABLE FOR TWELFTH DAY

IV.—THE LONDONER

CHARACTERS OF DRAMATIC WRITERS, CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKSPEARE.

Christopher Marlowe

Thomas Decker

John Marston

Author Unknown

Thomas Heywood

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

William Rowley

Thomas Middleton

William Rowley,—Thomas Decker,—John Ford, &c.

Cyril Tourneur

John Webster

John Ford

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

Ben Jonson

George Chapman

Francis Beaumont.—John Fletcher

John Fletcher

Philip Massinger.—Thomas Decker

Philip Massinger.—Thomas Middleton.—William Rowley

James Shirley

ON THE INCONVENIENCES RESULTING FROM BEING HANGED

ON THE DANGER OF CONFOUNDING MORAL WITH PERSONAL DEFORMITY; WITH A HINT TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE FRAMING OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR APPREHENDING OFFENDERS

"FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.

ON THE AMBIGUITIES ARISING FROM PROPER NAMES

ON THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF HOGARTH; WITH SOME REMARKS ON A PASSAGE IN THE WRITINGS OF THE LATE MR. BARRY

ON THE CUSTOM OF HISSING AT THE THEATRES, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A CLUB OF DAMNED AUTHORS

ON BURIAL SOCIETIES; AND THE CHARACTER OF AN UNDERTAKER

"Burial Society

Character of an Undertaker

ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKSPEARE, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR FITNESS FOR STAGE REPRESENTATION

SPECIMENS FROM THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN

EDAX ON APPETITE

HOSPITA ON THE IMMODERATE INDULGENCE OF THE PLEASURES OF THE PALATE

THE GOOD CLERK, A CHARACTER; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF "THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN"

MÉMOIR OF ROBERT LLOYD

CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD

RECOLLECTIONS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL

TABLE-TALK IN THE EXAMINER

I.—REYNOLDS AND LEONARDO DA VINCI

II.—[THE NEW ACTING]

III.—[BOOKS WITH ONE IDEA IN THEM]

IV.—[A SYLVAN SURPRISE]

V.—[STREET CONVERSATION]

VI.—[A TOWN RESIDENCE]

VII.—[GRAY'S BARD]

VIII.—[AN AMERICAN WAR FOR HELEN]

Ad Mariulam suam Autor

The Author to his Moggy

IX.—[DRYDEN AND COLLIER]

X.—PLAY-HOUSE MEMORANDA

REVIEW OF THE EXCURSION; A POEM

ON THE MELANCHOLY OF TAILORS

ON NEEDLE-WORK

ON THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE WITHER

FIVE DRAMATIC CRITICISMS

I.—MRS. GOULD (MISS BURRELL) IN "DON GIOVANNI IN LONDON"

II.—MISS KELLY AT BATH

III.—RICHARD BROME'S "JOVIAL CREW"

IV.—ISAAC BICKERSTAFF'S "HYPOCRITE"

V.—NEW PIECES AT THE LYCEUM

FOUR REVIEWS

I.—FALSTAFF'S LETTERS

Falstaff to the Prince

The Same to the Same

Again

Davy to Shallow

II.—CHARLES LLOYD'S POEMS

III.—BARRON FIELD'S POEMS

"The Kangaroo"

IV.—KEATS' "LAMIA"

SIR THOMAS MORE

THE CONFESSIONS OF H. F. V. H. DELAMORE, Esq.

THE GENTLE GIANTESS

LETTER TO AN OLD GENTLEMAN WHOSE EDUCATION HAS BEEN NEGLECTED

RITSON VERSUS JOHN SCOTT THE QUAKER

DYER'S RUINS OF ROME

DENHAM'S COOPER'S HILL

COLLINS'S ORIENTAL ECLOGUES

GRAY'S CHURCH-YARD ELEGY

GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE

ON THE DEATH OF MR. DENNIS

THOMSON'S SEASONS

HAYMAKING

SHEEP-SHEARING

LETTER OF ELIA TO ROBERT SOUTHEY

GUY FAUX

NUGÆ CRITICÆ

Charles the Fifth besieges Algier

ORIGINAL LETTER OF JAMES THOMSON

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF MR. LISTON

A VISION OF HORNS

THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEFUNCT[49]

UNITARIAN PROTESTS

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MR. MUNDEN

THE "LEPUS" PAPERS

I.—MANY FRIENDS

II.—READERS AGAINST THE GRAIN

III.—MORTIFICATIONS OF AN AUTHOR

IV.—TOM PRY

V.—TOM PRY'S WIFE

VI.—A CHARACTER

REFLECTIONS IN THE PILLORY

THE LAST PEACH

"ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE"

THE RELIGION OF ACTORS

A POPULAR FALLACY

REMINISCENCES OF JUKE JUDKINS, ESQ., OF BIRMINGHAM

CONTRIBUTIONS TO HONE'S EVERY-DAY BOOK AND TABLE BOOK

I.—REMARKABLE CORRESPONDENT

II.—CAPTAIN STARKEY

III.—TWELFTH OF AUGUST

IV.—THE ASS

V.—IN RE SQUIRRELS

VI.—AN APPEARANCE OF THE SEASON

VII.—THE MONTHS

The Twelve Months of the Year

VIII.—REMINISCENCE OF SIR JEFFERY DUNSTAN

IX—MRS. GILPIN RIDING TO EDMONTON

X.—THE DEFEAT OF TIME;

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

SHAKSPEARE'S IMPROVERS

SATURDAY NIGHT

ESTIMATE OF DE FOE'S SECONDARY NOVELS

CLARENCE SONGS

CLARENCE SONGS.—No. II

RECOLLECTIONS OF A LATE ROYAL ACADEMICIAN

THE LATIN POEMS OF VINCENT BOURNE

IN STATUAM SEPULCHRALEM INFANTIS DORMIENTIS

WHAT IS AN ALBUM?

THE DEATH OF MUNDEN

THOUGHTS ON PRESENTS OF GAME, &c.

TABLE-TALK BY THE LATE ELIA

THE DEATH OF COLERIDGE

CUPID'S REVENGE

APPENDIX

SCRAPS OF CRITICISM

THE MISCELLANY

The Spirit Enters.

COMIC TALES, Etc.,

DOG DAYS

THE PROGRESS OF CANT

MR. EPHRAIM WAGSTAFF, HIS WIFE, AND PIPE

REVIEW OF MOXON'S SONNETS

NOTES

TO MARTIN CHARLES BURNEY, ESQ.

WICLIFFE

FOR THE MEMORY

APPENDIX

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes