Chapter LVIII
. The first sentence runs: "Truly, fairest Lady, Actæon was not more astonished or in suspense when on the sodaine he saw Diana," and so forth.
Page 266, line 9. "_Guzman de Alfarache_." The Picaresque romance by Mateo Aleman--_Vida y Lechos del picaro Guzman de Alfarache_, Part I., 1599; Part II., 1605. It was translated into English by James Mabbe in 1622 as _The Rogue; or, The Life of Guzman de Alfarache_. Lamb had a copy, which is now in my possession, with Mary Lamb's name in it.
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Page 266. REJOICINGS UPON THE NEW YEAR'S COMING OF AGE.
_London Magazine_, January, 1823.
This paper, being printed in the same number as that which announced Elia's death, was signed "Elia's Ghost."
Lamb returned to this vein of fancy two years or so later when (in 1825) he contributed to his friend William Hone's _Every-Day Book_ the petition of the Twenty-Ninth of February, a day of which Hone had taken no account, and of the Twelfth of August, which from being kept as the birthday of King George IV. during the time that he was Prince of Wales, was, on his accession to the throne, disregarded in favour of April 23, St. George's Day. For these letters see Vol. I. of this edition.
Page 271, line 15. "_On the bat's back ..._" From Ariel's song in "The Tempest." Lamb confesses, in at least two of his letters, to a precisely similar plight.
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Page 271. THE WEDDING.
_London Magazine_, June, 1825.
The wedding was that of Sarah Burney, daughter of Lamb's old friends, Rear-Admiral James Burney and his wife Sarah Burney, to her cousin, John Payne, of Pall Mall, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, in April, 1821. The clergyman was the Rev. C.P. Burney, who was not, however, vicar of St. Mildred's in the Poultry, but of St. Paul's, Deptford, in Kent. Admiral Burney lived only six months longer, dying in November.
Canon Ainger pointed out that when Lamb was revising this essay for its appearance in the _Last Essays of Elia_, he was, like the admiral, about to lose by marriage Emma Isola, who was to him and his sister what Miss Burney had been to her parents. She married Edward Moxon in July, 1833.
Page 274, line 8. _An unseasonable disposition to levity_. Writing to P.G. Patmore in 1827 Lamb says: "I have been to a funeral, where I made a pun, to the consternation of the rest of the mourners." Again, writing to Southey: "I am going to stand godfather; I don't like the business; I cannot muster up decorum for these occasions; I shall certainly disgrace the font; I was at Hazlitt's marriage and was like to have been turned out several times during the ceremony. Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral."
Page 274, line 24. _Miss T----s_. In the _London Magazine_ "Miss Turner's."
Page 274, line 27. _Black ... the costume of an author_. See note below.
Page 274, line 29. _Lighter colour_. Here the _London Magazine_ had: "a pea-green coat, for instance, like the bridegroom."
Page 274, line 34. _A lucky apologue_. I do not find this fable; but Lamb's father, in his volume of poems, described in a note on page 381, has something in the same manner in his ballad "The Sparrow's Wedding":--
The chatt'ring Magpye undertook Their wedding breakfast for to cook, He being properly bedight In a cook's cloathing, black and white.
Page 275, foot. _The Admiral's favourite game_. Admiral Burney wrote a treatise on whist (see notes to "Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist").
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Page 276. THE CHILD ANGEL.
_London Magazine_, June, 1823.
Thomas Moore's _Loves of the Angels_ was published in 1823. Lamb used it twice for his own literary purposes: on the present occasion, with tenderness, and again, eight years later, with some ridicule, for his comic ballad, "Satan in Search of a Wife," 1831, was ironically dedicated to the admirers of Moore's poem (see Vol. IV.).
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Page 279. A DEATH-BED.
Hone's _Table Book_, Vol. I., cols. 425-426, 1827. Signed "L.," and dated London, February 10, 1827. The essay is very slightly altered from a letter written by Lamb to Crabb Robinson, January 20, 1827, describing the death of Randal Morris. It was printed in the first edition only of the _Last Essays of Elia_; its place being taken afterwards by the "Confessions of a Drunkard," an odd exchange. The essay was omitted, in deference, it is believed, to the objection of Mrs. Norris to her reduced circumstances being made public. As the present edition adheres to the text of the first edition, "The Death-Bed" is included in its original place as decided by the author. The "Confessions of a Drunkard" will be found in Vol. I.
Randal Norris was for many years sub-treasurer of the Inner Temple (see postscript to the essay on the "Old Benchers"). Writing to Wordsworth in 1830 Lamb spoke of him as "sixty years ours and our father's friend." An attempt has been made to identify him with the Mr. Norris of Christ's Hospital who was so kind to the Lambs after the tragedy of September, 1796. I cannot find any trace of Randal Norris having been connected with anything but the law and the Inner Temple; but possibly the Mr. Norris of the school was a relative.
Mrs. Randal Norris was connected with Widford, the village adjoining Blakesware, where she had known Mary Field, Lamb's grandmother. It was thither that she and her son retired after Randal Norris's death, to join her daughters, Miss Betsy and Miss Jane, who had a school for girls known as Goddard House School. Lamb kept up his friendship with them to the end, and they corresponded with Mary Lamb after his death. Mrs. Norris died in 1843, aged seventy-eight, and was buried at Widford. The grave of Richard Norris, the son, is also there. He died in 1836. One of the daughters, Elizabeth, married Charles Tween, of Widford, and lived until 1894. The other daughter, Jane, married Arthur Tween, his brother, and lived until 1891.
Mary Lamb was a bridesmaid at the Norris's wedding and after the ceremony accompanied the bride and bridegroom to Richmond for the day. So one of their daughters told Canon Ainger.
Crabb Robinson seems to have exerted himself for the family, as Lamb wished. Mr. W.C. Hazlitt says that an annuity of £80 was settled upon Mrs. Norris.
Page 279, last line. _To the last he called me Jemmy_. In the letter to Crabb Robinson--"To the last he called me Charley. I have none to call me Charley now."
Page 280, line 2. _That bound me to B----_. In the letter to Crabb Robinson--"that bound me to the Temple."
Page 280, line 14. _Your Corporation Library_. In the letter--"The Temple Library."
Page 280, line 19. _He had one Song_. Garrick's "Hearts of Oak."
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Page 281. OLD CHINA.
_London Magazine_, March, 1823.
This essay forms a pendant, or complement, to "Mackery End in Hertfordshire," completing the portrait of Mary Lamb begun there. It was, with "The Wedding," Wordsworth's favourite among the _Last Essays_.
Page 282, line 23. _The brown suit_. P.G. Patmore, in his recollections of Lamb in the _Court Journal_, 1835, afterwards reprinted, with some alterations, in his _My Friends and Acquaintances_, stated that Lamb laid aside his snuff-coloured suit in favour of black, after twenty years of the India House; and he suggests that Wordsworth's stanzas in "A Poet's Epitaph" was the cause:--
But who is he, with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown? He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.
He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Whatever Patmore's theory may be worth, it is certain that Lamb adhered to black after the change.
Page 282, line 25. _Beaumont and Fletcher_. See note to "Books and Reading."
Page 282, line 27. _Barker's_. Barker's old book-shop was at No. 20 Great Russell Street, over which the Lambs went to live in 1817. It had then, however, become Mr. Owen's, a brazier's (Wheatley's _London Past and Present_ gives Barker's as 19, but a contemporary directory says 20). Great Russell Street is now Russell Street.
Page 282, line 30. _From Islington_. This would be when Lamb and his sister lived at 36 Chapel Street, Pentonville, a stone's throw from the Islington boundary, in 1799-1800, after the death of their father.
Page 283, line 11. _The "Lady Blanch._" See Mary Lamb's poem on this picture, Vol. IV. and note.
Page 283, line 15. _Colnaghi's_. Colnaghi, the printseller, then in Cockspur Street, now Pall Mall East. After this word came in the _London Magazine_ "(as W---- calls it)." The reference, Mr. Rogers Rees tells me, is to Wainewright's article "C. van Vinkbooms, his Dogmas for Dilletanti," in the same magazine for December, 1821, where he wrote: "I advise Colnaghi and Molteno to import a few impressions immediately of those beautiful plates from Da Vinci. The ... and Miss Lamb's favourite, 'Lady Blanche and the Abbess,' commonly called 'Vanitas et Modestia' (Campanella, los. ed.), for I foresee that this Dogma will occasion a considerable call for them--let them, therefore, be ready."
Page 283, line 5 from foot. _To see a play_. "The Battle of Hexham" and "The Surrender of Calais" were by George Colman the Younger; "The Children in the Wood," a favourite play of Lamb's, especially with Miss Kelly in it, was by Thomas Morton. Mrs. Bland was Maria Theresa Bland, _née_ Romanzini, 1769-1838, who married Mrs. Jordan's brother. Jack Bannister we have met, in "The Old Actors."
Page 286, line 12. _The Great yew R----_. This would be Nathan Meyer Rothschild (1777-1836), the founder of the English branch of the family and the greatest financier of modern times.
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Page 286. POPULAR FALLACIES.
This series of little essays was printed in the _New Monthly Magazine_ in 1826, beginning in January. The order of publication there was not the same as that in the _Last Essays of Elia_; one of the papers, "That a Deformed Person is a Lord," was not reprinted by Lamb at all (it will be found in Vol. I. of this edition); and two others were converted into separate essays (see "The Sanity of True Genius" and "The Genteel Style in Writing").
After Lamb's death a new series of Popular Fallacies was contributed to the _New Monthly Magazine_ by L.B. (Laman Blanchard) in 1835, preceded by an invocation to the spirit of Charles Lamb.
Page 286. I.--THAT A BULLY is ALWAYS A COWARD.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Page 287, line 1. _Hickman_. This would be Tom Hickman, the pugilist. In Hazlitt's fine account of "The Fight," Hickman or the Gas-Man, "vapoured and swaggered too much, as if he wanted to grin and bully his adversary out of the fight." And again, "'This is the _grave digger_' (would Tom Hickman exclaim in the moments of intoxication from gin and success, showing his tremendous right hand); 'this will send many of them to their long homes; I haven't done with them yet.'" But he went under to Neale, of Bristol, on the great day that Hazlitt describes.
Page 287, line 2. _Him of Clarissa_. Mr. Hickman, in Richardson's novel _Clarissa_, the lover of Miss Bayes.
Page 287. II.--THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVER PROSPERS.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Page 287. III.--THAT A MAN MUST NOT LAUGH AT HIS OWN JEST.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Page 288, line 12. _In Mandeville_. In Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, a favourite book of Lamb's. See Vol. I., note to "The Good Clerk."
Page 288. IV.--THAT SUCH A ONE SHOWS HIS BREEDING, ETC.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Page 288. V.--THAT THE POOR COPY THE VICES OF THE RICH.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Page 290. VI.--THAT ENOUGH is AS GOOD AS A FEAST.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Page 291. VII.--OF TWO DISPUTANTS, THE WARMEST IS GENERALLY IN THE WRONG.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Page 291, line 4 from foot. _Little Titubus_. I do not know who this was, if any more than an abstraction; but it should be remembered that Lamb himself stammered.
Page 292. VIII.--THAT VERBAL ALLUSIONS ARE NOT WIT, ETC.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Page 292. IX.--THAT THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST.
_New Monthly Magazine_, January, 1826.
Compare the reflections on puns in the essay on "Distant Correspondents." Compare also the review of Hood's _Odes and Addresses_ (Vol. I.). Cary's account of a punning contest after Lamb's own heart makes the company vie with each in puns on the names of herbs. After anise, mint and other words had been ingeniously perverted Lamb's own turn, the last, was reached, and it seemed impossible that anything was left for him. He hesitated. "Now then, let us have it," cried the others, all expectant. "Patience," he replied; "it's c-c-cumin."
Page 293, line 18. _One of Swift's Miscellanies_. This joke, often attributed to Lamb himself, will be found in _Ars Punica, sine flos Linguarum, The Art of Punning; or, The Flower of Languages_, by Dr. Sheridan and Swift, which will be found in Vol. XIII. of Scott's edition of Swift. Among the directions to the punster is this:--
Rule 3. The Brazen Rule. He must have better assurance, like Brigadier C----, who said, "That, as he was passing through a street, he made to a country fellow who had a hare swinging on a stick over his shoulder, and, giving it a shake, asked him whether it was his own _hair_ or a periwig!" Whereas it is a notorious Oxford jest.
Page 294, line 8. _Virgil ... broken Cremona_. Swift (as Lamb explained in the original essay in the _New Monthly Magazine_), seeing a lady's mantua overturning a violin (possibly a Cremona), quoted Virgil's line: "Mantua væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ!" (_Eclogues_, IX., 28), "Mantua, alas! too near unhappy Cremona."
Page 294. X.--THAT HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME DOES.
_New Monthly Magazine_, March, 1826.
Whether a Mrs. Conrady existed, or was invented or adapted by Lamb to prove his point, I have not been able to discover. But the evidence of Lamb's "reverence for the sex," to use Procter's phrase, is against her existence. _The Athenæum_ reviewer on February 16, 1833, says, however, quoting the fallacy: "Here is a portrait of Mrs. Conrady. We agree with the writer that 'no one that has looked on her can pretend to forget the lady.'" The point ought to be cleared up.
Page 296. XI.--THAT WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE MOUTH.
_New Monthly Magazine_, April, 1826.
Page 297, line 13. _Our friend Mitis_. I do not identify Mitis among Lamb's many friends.
Page 297, line 11 from foot. _Presentation copies_. The late Mr. Thomas Westwood, the son of the Westwoods with whom the Lambs lived at Edmonton, writing to Notes and Queries some thirty-five years ago, gave an amusing account of Lamb pitching presentation copies out of the window into the garden--a Barry Cornwall, a Bernard Barton, a Leigh Hunt, and so forth. Page 298, line 6. _Odd presents of game_. Compare the little essay on "Presents of Game," Vol. I.
Page 298. XII.--THAT HOME IS HOME THOUGH IT IS NEVER SO HOMELY.
_New Monthly Magazine_, March, 1826. In that place the first sentence began with the word "Two;" the second ended with "of our assertions;" and (fourteenth line of essay) it was said of the very poor man that he "can ask" no visitors. Lamb, in a letter, wished Wordsworth
## particularly to like this fallacy and that on rising with the lark.
Page 300, line 9. _It has been prettily said_. By Lamb himself, or more probably by his sister, in _Poetry for Children_, 1809. See "The First Tooth," Vol. III., which ends upon the line
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Page 301, line 3. _There is yet another home_. Writing to Mrs. Wordsworth on February 18, 1818, Lamb gives a painful account, very similar in part to this essay, of the homeless home to which he was reduced by visitors. But by the time he wrote the essay, when all his day was his own, the trouble was not acute. He tells Bernard Barton on March 20, 1826, "My tirade against visitors was not meant _particularly_ at you or A.K. I scarce know what I meant, for I do not just now feel the grievance. I wanted to make an _article_." Compare the first of the "Lepus" papers in Vol. I.
Page 301, line 20. _It is the refreshing sleep of the day_. After this sentence, in the magazine, came this passage:--
"O the comfort of sitting down heartily to an old folio, and thinking surely that the next hour or two will be your own--and the misery of being defeated by the useless call of somebody, who is come to tell you, that he is just come from hearing Mr. Irving! What is that to you? Let him go home, and digest what the good man said to him. You are at your chapel, in your oratory."
Mr. Irving was the Rev. Edward Irving (1792-1834), whom Lamb knew slightly and came greatly to admire.
Page 302. XIII.--THAT YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG.
_New Monthly Magazine_, February, 1826.
Compare "A Bachelor's Complaint." I cannot identify the particular friend whom Lamb has hidden under asterisks; although his cousin would seem to have some likeness to one of the Bethams mentioned in the essay "Many Friends" (Vol. I.), and in the letter to Landor of October, 1832 (usually dated April), after his visit to the Lambs.
Page 304, line 15. _Honorius dismiss his vapid wife_. Writing to Bernard Barton on March 20, 1826, Lamb says:--"In another thing I talkd of somebody's _insipid wife_, without a correspondent object in my head: and a good lady, a friend's wife, whom I really _love_ (don't startle, I mean in a licit way) has looked shyly on me ever since. The blunders of personal application are numerous. I send out a character every now and then, on purpose to exercise the ingenuity of my friends."
Page 304, line 11 from foot. _Merry, of Delia Cruscan memory_. Robert Merry (1755-1798), an affected versifier who settled in Florence as a young man, and contributed to the _Florence Miscellany_. He became a member of the Delia Cruscan Academy, and on returning to England signed his verses, in _The World_, "Delia Crusca." A reply to his first effusion, "Adieu and Recall to Love," was written by Mrs. Hannah Cowley, author of _The Belle's Stratagem_, and signed "Anna Matilda;" this correspondence continued; a fashion of sentiment was thus started; and for a while Delia Cruscan poetry was the rage. The principal Delia Cruscan poems were published in the _British Album_ in 1789, and the collection was popular until Gifford's _Baviad_ (followed by his _Mæviad_) appeared in 1791, and satirised its conceits so mercilessly that the school collapsed. A meeting with Anna Matilda in the flesh and the discovery that she was twelve years his senior had, however, put an end to Merry's enthusiasm long before Gifford's attack. Merry afterwards threw in his lot with the French Revolution, and died in America. He married, as Lamb says, Elizabeth Brunton, an excellent tragic actress, in 1791. But that was in England. The journey to America came later.
The story of Merry's avoidance of the lady of his first choice is probably true. Carlo Antonio Delpini was a famous pantomimist in his day at Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket. He also was stage manager at the Opera for a while, and occasionally arranged entertainments for George IV. at Brighton. He died in 1828.
Page 305. XIV.--THAT WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK.
_New Monthly Magazine_, February, 1826.
Compare "The Superannuated Man," to which this little essay, which, with that following, is one of Lamb's most characteristic and perfect works, serves as a kind of postscript.
Page 308. XV.--THAT WE SHOULD LIE DOWN WITH THE LAMB.
_New Monthly Magazine_, February, 1826.
Page 309. XVI.--THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE.
_New Monthly Magazine_, September, 1826.
This was the last of the series and Lamb's last contribution to the _New Monthly Magazine_.
APPENDIX
Page 315. ON SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS, ETC.
See notes to the essays "On Some of the Old Actors," "The Artificial Comedy" and "The Acting of Munden." Two portions of these essays, not reprinted by Lamb, call for comment: the story of the first night of "Antonio," and the account of Charles Mathews' collection of pictures.
Page 328, line 14 from foot. _My friend G.'s "Antonio."_ William Godwin's tragedy, produced on December 13, 1800, at Drury Lane. Lamb had written the epilogue (see Vol. IV.). Compare the letter to Manning of December 16, 1800.
Page 329, line 28. _M. wiped his cheek_. Writing to Godwin after the failure Lamb says: "The breast of Hecuba, where she did suckle Hector, looked not to be more lovely than Marshal's forehead when it spit forth sweat, at Critic-swords contending. I remember two honest lines by Marvel ...
"'Where every Mower's wholesome heat Smells like an Alexander's sweat.'"
And again, to Manning: "His [Marshal's] face was lengthened, and all over perspiration; I never saw such a care-fraught visage; I could have hugged him, I loved him so intensely. 'From every pore of him a perfume fell.'"
Page 329, foot. _R----s the dramatist_. I imagine this to be Frederic Reynolds (1764-1841), author of "The Dramatist" and many other plays. We know Lamb to have known him later, from a mention in a letter to J.B. Dibdin.
Page 330, foot, _Brutus ... Appius_. Brutus in "Julius Cæsar," or possibly in the play called "Brutus," by John Howard Payne, Lamb's friend (produced December 3, 1818), in which Brutus kills his son--a closer parallel. Appius was probably a slip of the pen for Virginius, who in Sheridan Knowles' drama that bears his name kills his daughter to protect her from Appius.
Page 331, line 7. _G. thenceforward_. Godwin did, however, write another play, "Faulkener," for which Lamb wrote the prologue. It was moderately successful.
Page 331, 1st line of essay. _I do not know, etc_. The paragraph beginning with these words is often printed by editors of Lamb as a separate article entitled "The Old Actors." Charles Mathews' collection of theatrical portraits is now in the Garrick Club. In his lifetime it occupied the gallery at Ivy Lodge, Highgate (or more properly Kentish Town). A year or so before Mathews' death in 1835, his pictures were exhibited at the Queen's Bazaar in Oxford Street, Lamb's remarks being printed in the catalogue _raisonné_.
INDEX
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Accountants, Lamb on, 3. Actors and acting, Lamb's essays on, 150, 161, 168, 185, 188, 190, 230, 315, 322, 331. Actors among Lamb's friends, 232. Adams, Parson, 49. Agar's wish, 348. Aguecheek, Lamb on, 155. Ainger, Canon, his notes on Lamb, 345, 353, 361, 403, 436, 438. _Albion, The_, and Lamb, 254, 429, 432. Alice W----n, 32, 44, 116, 117, 339, 363, 389. ALL FOOLS' DAY, 48, 367. Allen, Bob, 25, 253, 355, 431. Allsop, Thomas, quoting Lamb, 357. ---- and "Roast Pig," 396. ---- quotes Lamb on G.H., 425. Almsgiving, Lamb on, 137. Alsatia, the debtors' sanctuary, 162. America, Lamb relics in, 344, 357, 358, 362, 412. AMICUS REDIVIVUS, 237, 424. Anatomy and love, 64. _Anatomy of Melancholy_ quoted, 46. André, Major, 237, 424. Anna Matilda, 443. Antiquity, Lamb on, 11. "Antonio," by Godwin, 328, 444. _Arcadia, The_, by Sidney, 242. Arrowsmith, Aaron, 369. "Artaxerxes," 113, 387. Artificial comedy, Lamb's essay on, 161, 399. Artists, their want of imagination, 256. Arundel Castle and the chimney-sweep legend, 127. _As when a child on some long winter's night_, 388. _Athenæum, The_, Lamb's contribution to, 433. _Athenian Oracle, The_, 303. Australia, Lamb on, 122. Ayrton, William, 361, 363.
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BACHELOR'S COMPLAINT OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF MARRIED PEOPLE, 144, 397. Badams, Mrs., 362. Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 340. Bannister, Jack, 159, 185, 399, 408. BARBARA S----, 230, 421. Barker's book-shop, 282, 439. BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY IN THE PRODUCTIONS OF MODERN ART, 256, 433. Barrington, Daines, 101, 383. Bartholomew Fair, 128, 391. Barton, Bernard, Lamb's letters to, 341, 406, 417, 420, 435, 442. -- Thomas, 102, 383. Baskett prayer-book, 9. Battle, Mrs., 37, 175, 406. ---- on whist, 37. ---- her identity, 361. Beaumont and Fletcher, Lamb's copy, 357. Beauty, Lamb on, 295. "Beggar's Petition," 394. Begging, Lamb's essay on, 130, 392. Belisarius, 131. "Belshazzars Feast," Martin's picture of, 259, 434. Benchers, The Old, Lamb's essay on, 94. Bensley, Robert, 152, 318, 398. Betty, Master, 414. Bigod, Ralph, Lamb's name for Fenwick, 27, 356. Billet, John, 184. Binding, Lamb on, 412. _Blackwood's Magazine_ and Scott, 340. Blake, William, and Lamb, 391. BLAKESMOOR IN H----SHIRE, 174, 405. Blakesware near Widford, 115, 174, 388, 405. Bland, Mrs., 283, 439. Blandy, Miss, the poisoner, 98, 380. Bodkin, W.H., 392. _Book of Sports, The_, 418. Books, Lamb on, 34, 360. -- that are not books, 195, 411. Booth's _Tables of Interest_ and Lamb, 419. Borrowing, Lamb on, 26. Bourne, Vincent, 133, 393. Bowles, William Lisle, 38, 362. Boyer, James, 23, 353. Braham, John, 71, 371. Breeding, Lamb on, 288. Bridget, Elia. _See_ Elia. Brighton and the Lambs, 415. -- Lamb's imaginery scene there, 259. British Museum, a careful vandal, 357. Browne, Moses, 404. -- Sir Thomas, 58, 66, 80. Bruce, James, 240, 425. Bruton, Miss Sarah, 376. Brutons, Lamb's relations, 88, 89. Buckland, Dean, and the American vandal, 424. Bullies, Lamb on, 286, 440. _Buncle, The Life of_, 30, 357. Burney, Edward, 65, 370. -- James, 361. Burney, Martin, 200, 414. -- Mrs., and Mrs. Battle, 361. -- Sarah, her wedding, 271, 436. Burns, Robert, and Lamb, 70, 370. Burton, Robert, quoted, 46, 77. _Business! the frivolous pretence_, 419. Button Snap, Lamb's cottage, 385, 386, 387. _But who is he, with modest looks_, 438.
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Cambridge, Lamb at, 345. Camelford, Lord, 121, 390. Candle-light, Lamb on, 308. CAPTAIN JACKSON, 215, 416. Card playing, essay on, in _Every-Day Book_, 362. Carlisle, Sir Anthony, 193, 372, 410. Cary, H.F., his verses on Lamb, 426. -- on Lamb's puns, 441. Cave, Edward, 344. Chambers, John, 224, 419. Chapman's _Homer_ kissed by Lamb, 412. CHAPTER ON EARS, A, 43, 363. CHARACTER OF THE LATE ELIA, A, 171, 402. Chess and Mrs. Battle, 42. CHILD ANGEL, THE, 276, 437. Children and the dark, 77. Chimney-sweepers, Lamb's essay on, 124, 390. CHINA, OLD, 281, 438. -- its first roast pork, 138. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO, 14, 350. ---- prayer-book, 9. ---- food in Lamb's day, 14, 350. ---- holidays in Lamb's day, 15, 351. ---- the dungeon, 19. ---- flogging, 23. ---- Grecians, 26, 355. ---- its graces, 110, 384. ---- the Coleridge memorial, 354. ---- the Lamb medal, 355. Clapdishes, 131. "Cobbler of Preston," by Johnson, 170, 401. Cockletop, in "Modern Antiques," 168, 400. Colebrooke cottage, 425. Coleridge, Hartley, on Lamb, 400. -- S.T., at Christ's Hospital, 15, 350, 351. -- his wit combats, 25. -- his treatment of books, 29, 356. -- his "Ode on the Departing Year," 31, 359. -- on apple-dumplings, 108, 384. -- his "Epitaph on an Infant," 141, 397. -- on Boyer, 353. -- and the Christ's Hospital memorial, 354. -- his military name, 356. -- Lamb's letters to, 356, 368, 396. -- his marginalia, 358. -- his notes in Beaumont and Fletcher, 357. ------ in Donne, 358. -- on Lamb, 359. -- Lamb's letter to, concerning Quakers, 368. -- and Christopher North, 371. -- his sonnets with Lamb, 388. -- and the _Morning Post_, 429, 430. Colet, Dean, his _Accidence_, 59. Colnaghi's print shop, 283, 439. Comberback, Coleridge's military name, 29, 356. _Come, all degrees now passing by_, 391. Comedy and its licence, 161. COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN THE METROPOLIS, 130, 392. CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD, 437. Congreve, Lamb on, 160, 162. Conrady, Mrs., 294, 441. CONVALESCENT, THE, 208, 416. Corbet, Peter, 404. Coventry, Thomas, 97, 380. Cowards and bullies, 286. Cowley, on business, 419. Crawford, Anne, 423. Cresseid, 131. Curry, Sir Christopher, in "Inkle and Yarico," 169, 401.
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Da Vinci, Leonardo, and Lamb's beauty, 69, 370. Dawson, Bully, 287. Days, Lamb's fantasy upon, 266. DEATH-BED, A, 279, 437. Delia Cruscan poetry, 443. Delpini, 305, 443. Dennis, John, 292. De Quincey on Lamb, 377. DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING, 195, 411. Dickens anticipated by Lamb, 356, 417. Disputes, Lamb on, 291. DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG, 137, 395. DISTANT CORRESPONDENTS, 118, 389. Dobell, Mr. Bertram, his notes on Lamb, 342, 395, 408. Doctor, the, at Islington, 238. Dodd, James William, 155. Dodwell, Henry, 224, 419. Dornton in "The Road to Ruin," 169, 401. Dorrell, William, the Lambs' enemy, 32, 360. DREAM-CHILDREN, 115, 388. Dreams, Lamb on, 79. Drowning in dreams, 241. Drury Lane Theatre, 111, 385. Dyer, George, 11, 237, 241, 347, 348, 349, 424, 425, 433. ---- and the New River, 237, 424.
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Early rising, Lamb on, 305. East India House, Lamb at, 219. ------ Lamb's superannuation, 219, 417. ------ Lamb's fellow clerks, 223, 224, 403, 404. Edwards, Thomas, 92, 379. Eel-soup, 374. Elgin marbles, 225, 419. ELIA, 1823, suggested dedication, 337. -- its poor reception, 338. -- second series. American edition, 339. Elia, F.A., 337. -- Lamb on, 8. -- his death, 171. -- Lamb's character of, 171, 402. -- origin of name, 337. -- his birthplace, 365. -- Bridget (Mary Lamb), 43, 362. ---- her taste in reading, 86. ---- her regrets for poverty, 282. ELLISTON, TO THE SHADE OF, 188, 409. ELLISTONIANA, 190, 410. Elliston, R.W., Lamb's essays on, 188, 190, 409, 410. ---- at Leamington, 190. ---- his grave, 411. ---- Lamb and Munden on an excursion, 410. Elton, Sir C.A., his poem to Lamb, 358. Emery, John, 186, 409. Endor, the Witch of, 75, 372. _Englishman's Magazine_, 342. ---- Lamb's contributions to, 188, 190, 249. Evans, William, 3, 343. Evelyn, John, quoted, 72. _Every-Day Book_, essay on card-playing, 362. _Examiner, The_, and Lamb's "Chimney-Sweepers," 392. ---- Lamb's contributions to, 63, 168. ---- "On a visit to St. Paul's," 424. Example, Lamb on, 288. Excursions, the Lambs', 283.
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_Faerie Queene_, Lamb's copy, 413. FALLACIES, POPULAR. _See_ POPULAR FALLACIES. _Family Pictures_, by Anne Manning, 378. Farley, Charles, 169, 259, 401, 435. "Father, A," his remonstrance with Lamb, 360. Favell, Joseph, 25, 181, 355, 408. Feasting, Lamb on, 290. Fenwick, John, 27, 129, 255, 356, 432. Field, Barron, 90, 118, 363, 377, 389. -- Mary, 361, 405. -- Matthew, 20, 352. Fielde, Francis, Lamb's godfather, 111, 385. Flecknoe, quoted, 51. Flogging, Lamb on, 23. Fools, Lamb's essay on, 48, 367. Fountains, Lamb on, 96. Fox, George, 53, 368. French translation of Lamb, 415. Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 71. Funerals and Lamb, 274, 436.
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Gallantry, Lamb on, 90, 377. "Garden, The," by Marvell, 96. Gattie, Henry, 186, 408. Gebir and the Tower of Babel, 49. _Gebir_, by Landor, 206, 415. GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING, THE, 226, 420. Gentility, Lamb on, 176. George IV., 259, 268, 435, 436. Gladmans, Lamb's relations, 88, 89, 90. _Gli Elogi del Porco_, 396. Gluttony and grace, Lamb on, 105. Godwin, William, his play "Antonio," 328, 444. -- Lamb's friend, 376. -- Lamb's letter to, 444. Gold's _London Magazine_, 395. GRACE BEFORE MEAT, 104, 384. Graces at Christ's Hospital, 110, 384. Gray's Inn Gardens, 155, 399. Grecians at Christ's Hospital, 26, 355. Greg, Mr. Thomas, and Lamb's property, 385. Guildhall giants, 29. _Gulliver's Travels_, 382.
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Hare Court, Lamb's rooms in, 390. "Harlequin's Invasion," 113, 387. Hastings and the Lambs, 206, 416. Hawes, Dr., 241. Hazlitt, William, on Sidney, 247, 427. ---- on Lamb in the country, 345. ---- knocked down by John Lamb, 347. ---- his interest in John Buncle, 357. ---- as Duns Scotus, 367. ---- Lamb's letter to, 397. ---- on Lamb, 403. ---- his wedding, 436. -- W.C., his notes on Lamb, 357, 438. Helicon and Hippocrene confused, 37. Hertfordshire hair, 178. -- and Lamb, 220, 418. -- Lamb's praise of, 375. _He was (woe worth that word!) to each well-thinking mind_, 428. Heywood, Thomas, quoted, 67. Hickman, Tom, the prize fighter, 287, 440. _High-born Helen, round your dwelling_, 407. Hodges (or Huggins), 352. Hogarth, his chimney-sweeper, 126. Hogsflesh and Bacon, 415. Hogs Norton and the pigs, 109. Holcroft, Thomas, 376. Hone's _Table Book_, Lamb's contribution to, 279. Hood, Thomas, his friendship with Lamb, 393. ---- on beggars, 393. Hooker, Richard, 104, 384. Hoole, John, 404. Horsey, Samuel, 135, 393. Huggins (or Hodges), 352. Hugh of Lincoln, 70, 371. Hume, David, 70, 371. -- Joseph, Lamb's friend, 394. Humphreys, Mr. Deputy, 253. Hunt, Leigh, and Lamb, 360. ---- chaffed by Lamb, 364. Hunt, Leigh, replies to Lamb, 365. ---- and Lamb's "Chimney Sweepers," 392. ---- on Lamb's books, 412. ---- his translation of Milton, 426. -- Thornton, 77, 372. Hutchinson, Sarah, Lamb's letter to, 417.
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_I can remember when a child the maids_, 372. _I have not forgot how thou didst love thy Charles_, 350. Illusion on the stage, 185. Imagination, its lack in the artists of Lamb's day, 256. Imitators of Lamb, 339. IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES, 66, 370. Ino Leucothea, 79. Ireland, Dean, 423. Irving, Edward, and Lamb, 442. Isola, Emma, 436.
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JACKSON, CAPTAIN, 215, 416. -- "Omniscient," 102, 383. "Janus Weathercock." _See_ Wainewright. Jekyll, Joseph, 97, 379. _John Woodvil_ quoted, 368, 372. Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 250, 344, 383. Jokes to order, Lamb on, 252. Jonson, Ben, quoted, 89. Jordan, Mrs., 151, 398. Joshua, Martin's picture of, 262, 435. Journalism and Lamb, 251.
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Kelly, Fanny, and BARBARA S----, 421. ---- and Mrs. Siddons, 422. Kemble, John Philip, 153, 168, 327, 398. Kenney, James, 30, 357. Kent, Charles, his edition of Lamb, 421. King, Thomas, 166, 400.
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"Lady of the Manor," 113, 387. Lamb, Charles, on the South-Sea House, 1. ---- on accountants, 3. ---- on Elia, 8. ---- on Oxford, 10. ---- on antiquity, 11. ---- on old libraries, 11. ---- on George Dyer, 11. ---- on his school-days, 14. ---- on Coleridge's school-days, 14. ---- on Matthew Fielde, 21. ---- on James Boyer, 22. ---- on borrowers and borrowing, 26. ---- on John Fenwick, 27. ---- on Coleridge as a book borrower, 29. ---- on the Duchess of Newcastle, 30. ---- on the New Year, 31. ---- on bells, 31. ---- on his childhood, 32, 75. ---- on the joy of life, 33. ---- on death, 34. ---- on Mrs. Battle and whist, 37, ---- his want of ear, 43. ---- his piano playing, 44. ---- on oratorios, 45. ---- on Novello's evenings, 47. ---- on fools, 48. ---- on Quakers, 51, 55, 72. ---- on silence, 51. ---- on Sewel's _History_, 53. ---- on John Woolman, 54. ---- and the Quaker "wit," 55. ---- his reading, 56. ---- on schoolmasters, 59. ---- on Valentine's Day, 63. ---- on anatomy and love, 64. ---- on door knocks, 64. ---- on Edward Burney's valentine, 65. ---- on imperfect sympathies, 66. ---- on Scotchmen, 67. ---- on Jews, 70. ---- on Braham, 71. ---- on negroes, 71. ---- on Quakers, 72. ---- on witches, 74. ---- on his childhood, 75. ---- on children and the dark, 77. ---- on Thornton Hunt's bringing up, 77. ---- on dreams, 79. ---- on his relations, 80. ---- on Sarah Lamb, 80. ---- on John Lamb, jr., 81, 117. ---- on his sister Mary, 86. ---- his dislike of stories, 86. ---- on the Duchess of Newcastle again, 87. ---- on Mackery End, 88. ---- his Hertfordshire relations, 88. ---- on the comely Brutons, 89. ---- on gallantry, 90. ---- on Joseph Paice, 92. ---- on the Temple, 94. ---- on sun-dials, 95. ---- on fountains, 96. ---- on the old Benchers, 97. ---- on Joseph Jekyll, 97. ---- on Samuel Salt, 98, 103. ---- on Thomas Coventry, 99. ---- on his father, 99. ---- on Daines Barrington, 101. ---- on James Mingay, 102. ---- on Baron Maseres, 103. ---- on saying grace, 104. ---- on Milton, 107. ---- his godfather Field, 111. ---- as a landed proprietor, 112. ---- his first play, 112. ---- and his imaginary children, 115. ---- his grandmother, 115. ---- on Blakesware, 116. ---- on distant correspondents, 118. ---- on Lord Camelford's whim, 121. ---- on puns, 122. ---- on Australia, 122. ---- on chimney-sweepers, 124. ---- on Saloop, 125. ---- and fine teeth, 127. ---- and James White, 128. ---- on beggars, 130. ---- his translation from Bourne, 133. Lamb, Charles, on Samuel Horsey, 135. ---- on almsgiving, 137. ---- on the origin of roast pig, 137. ---- on roast pig, 140. ---- and his plum cake, 142. ---- on married people, 144. ---- on "Twelfth Night," 150. ---- on Mrs. Jordan, 151. ---- on Mrs. Powel, 151. ---- on Bensley's Malvolio, 152. ---- on Dodd's Aguecheek, 155. ---- on Dicky Suett, 157. ---- on Jack Bannister, 159. ---- on Jack Palmer, 159, 165. ---- on the artificial comedy, 161. ---- on Wycherley and Congreve, 162. ---- on the "School for Scandal," 164. ---- on J.P. Kemble, 168. ---- on Munden's faces, 169. ---- on Elia's death, 172. ---- on family mansions, 174. ---- on Blakesware, 175. ---- on the feeling of gentility, 176. ---- on poor relations, 178. ---- on Favell's sensitiveness, 181. ---- on John Billet, 183. ---- on stage illusion, 185. ---- on Gattie's old men, 186. ---- on Emery as Tyke, 186. ---- on Elliston, 188, 190. ---- entertains Elliston, 194. ---- on reading, 195. ---- on books that are not books, 195. ---- on binding, 196. ---- on editions of the great authors, 197. ---- on the names of poets, 198. ---- on Shakespeare, 198. ---- his adventure on Primrose Hill, 199. ---- on watering-places, 201. ---- on the voyage to Margate, 21. ---- on a good liar, 202. ---- on the ocean, 205. ---- on Hastings, 206. ---- on smuggling, 207. ---- on convalescence, 208. ---- on the sanity of genius, 212. ---- on Captain Jackson, 215. ---- on his clerk-state, 219. ---- his superannuation, 221. ---- on leisure, 222. ---- on the genteel style in writing, 226. ---- on Sir William Temple, 226. ---- on Miss Kelly's reminiscence. 230. ---- on his friends among actors, 232. ---- on Westminster Abbey fees, 235. ---- on Andrews monument, 237. ---- on George Dyer's immersion, 237. ---- on the Islington doctor, 238, ---- on the New River, 240. ---- on drowning in dreams, 241. ---- on Sidney's sonnets, 242. ---- on Milton's Latin sonnet, 243. ---- on Hazlitt s opinion of Sidney, 248. ---- on James Bruce, 250. ---- on Dan Stuart, 250. ---- on the _Morning Post_ days, 250. ---- on joking to order, 252. ---- on Bob Allen, 253. ---- on _The Albion_, 254. ---- and Sir James Mackintosh, 256. ---- on modern painters, 256. ---- on Titian's "Ariadne," 256. ---- on Raphael, 257. ---- on J.M.W. Turner, 258. ---- his imaginary scene at Brighton, 259. ---- on John Martin, 260. ---- on Don Quixote, 264. ---- his fantasy on the Days, 266. ---- on Miss Burney's wedding, 271. ---- on mothers and daughters, 273. ---- on his behaviour on solemn occasions, 274. Lamb, Charles, on Admiral Burney, 275. ---- his fantasy on the child angel, 276. ---- on Randal Norris's death, 279. ---- on old china, 281. ---- his sister's regrets for poverty, 282. ---- and the folio Beaumont and Fletcher, 282. ---- and his sister's excursions, 283. ---- and his sister's playgoing, 283. ---- on bullies and cowards, 286. ---- on ill-gotten gains, 287. ---- on jokes and laughter, 287. ---- on breeding, 288. ---- on the poor and the rich, 288. ---- on sayings concerning money, 290. ---- on disputants, 291. ---- on puns, 292. ---- on Mrs. Conrady, 294. ---- on beauty, 295. ---- on presents, 296. ---- on home, 298. ---- on friendship, 302. ---- on Merry's wedding day, 304. ---- on early rising, 305. ---- on superannuation, 307. ---- on going to bed late, 308. ---- on candle-light, 308. ---- on sulky tempers, 309. ---- on Kemble in Godwin's "Antonio," 329. ---- on Mathews' collection of portraits, 331. ---- on the name Elia, 337. ---- his dedication to _Elia_, 337, ---- his imitators, 339. ---- his Key to _Elia_, 339. ---- and the _London Magazine_, 340. ---- on Taylor's editing, 341. ---- his _post London Magazine_ days, 342. ---- at the South-Sea House, 342. ---- in the country, 345. ---- at Oxford, 346. ---- his sonnet on Cambridge, 346. ---- on Milton's MSS., 346. ---- his jokes with George Dyer, 347. ---- on George Dyer's career, 348, 349. ---- his lines to his aunt, 350. ---- his popularity at school, 355. ---- on Grecians and Deputy-Grecians, 355. ---- on reading and borrowing, 356. ---- and Luther's _Table Talk_, 357. ---- Coleridge as a reader, 357. ---- his copy of Beaumont and Fletcher, 357. ---- his copy of Donne, 358. ---- his books in America, 358. ---- his reply to "Olen," 358. ---- his sonnet "Leisure," 359. ---- Coleridge's description of him, 359. ---- on Coleridge's "Ode," 359. ---- his sonnet on Innocence, 360. ---- rebuked by "A Father," 360. ---- and the Burneys, 361. ---- elementary rules of whist, 362. ---- his ear for music, 363. ---- weathering a Mozartian storm, 364. ---- his chaff of Hunt, 364. ---- on Elia's ancestors, 364. ---- chaffed by Hunt, 365. ---- Maginn thinks him a Jew, 365. ---- on birthplaces, 365. ---- on turning Quaker, 368. ---- kisses a copy of Burns, 371. ---- his threat concerning Burns, 371. ---- rebuked by Christopher North, 371. ---- his admiration of Braham, 371. ---- on Sir Anthony Carlisle, 372. ---- his sisters, 373. ---- on John Lamb's pamphlet, 374. Lamb, Charles, his cousins, 376. ---- his blank verse fragment, 377. ---- on Wordsworth's "Yarrow Visited," 377. ---- De Quincey's description of him, 377. ---- his chivalry, 377. ---- Barry Cornwall's anecdote of him, 377. ---- his birthplace, 379. ---- his patron, 380. ---- his father, 381. ---- and Baron Maseres, 383. ---- and Southey's criticism of _Elia_, 384. ---- as a landowner, 385. ---- his letter to his tenant, 386. ---- and his mother, 387. ---- his sonnet to Mrs. Siddons, 388. ---- and Alice W----, 389. ---- his love period, 389. ---- and chimney-sweepers, 390. ---- at Bartholomew Fair, 391. ---- his acquaintance with Hood, 393. ---- his joke to a beggar, 394. ---- on the "Beggar's Petition," 394. ---- his joke on Wainewright, 395. ---- the origin of his "Roast Pig," 395. ---- his recantation, 397. ---- his aunts, 397. ---- on Mrs. John Rickman, 397. ---- criticised by Macaulay, 399. ---- praised by Hartley Coleridge, 400. ---- on Elia's character, 402. ---- on the East India House clerks, 404. ---- letter to Southey about Blakesware, 406. ---- letter to Barton on same subject, 406. ---- his excursion with Elliston and Munden, 410. ---- his books described by Leigh Hunt, 412. ---- his affectation of affectation, 414. ---- and watering-places, 415. ---- at Hastings, 416. ---- leaves the India House, 417. ---- letter to Barton on his liberty, 417. ---- on the Puritans, 418. ---- his love of walking, 419. ---- his sonnet on "Work," 419. ---- his remark to Macready, 423. ---- his remark to Allsop about Dyer, 425. ---- the last book he read, 426. ---- on Lord's Thurlow's poems, 427. ---- his paragraphs for the _Morning Post_, 429. ---- as he appeared to Dan Stuart, 430. ---- his epigrams on Mackintosh, 433. ---- his real opinion of Titian's "Ariadne," 434. ---- letter to Barton on John Martin, 435. ---- at Hazlitt's wedding, 436. ---- his clothes, 438. ---- his pun at Cary's, 441. ---- his treatment of presentation copies, 441. -- Elizabeth, Lamb's mother, 387. -- John (Lovel), 100, 381. ---- his boyhood, 183, 408. ---- quoted, 437. ---- jr., his character, 81. ---- his childhood, 117. ---- at the South-Sea House, 344. ---- and Hazlitt, 347. ---- his _Letter ... on Cruelty to Animals_, 374. ---- his death, 388. -- Mary (Bridget Elia), Lamb's sister, 43, 86, 362, 376. ---- her account of a schoolmaster, 62. ---- a quaint poetess, 200, 414. ---- her first play, 387. ---- her poem "Helen," 407. -- Sarah (Lamb's aunt), 15, 142, 350, 397. ---- her character, 80. Lamb, Sarah, her sarcasm, 184. -- family, 81, 373. "LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA," 339. Laughter, Lamb on, 287. "Lazarus, The Raising of," by Piombo, 262, 435. Le Grice, Charles Valentine, 25, 110, 354, 384. ---- Samuel, 25, 355. Leisure, Lamb on, 420. Letter-writing, Lamb on, 118. Liar, a good, 202. Libraries, Lamb on, 11. _Life of John Buncle_, by Amory, 30, 357. Lincoln, John Lamb's boyhood, 183, 408. Liston, John, 169, 401, 423. Lloyd, Charles, 360. Lombardy and the pawnbrokers, 254. London, Lamb's homes in, 379. _London Magazine_, history of, 340. ---- Lamb's contributions to, 1-56, 66-185, 195-208, 215, 219, 230, 235, 237, 242, 271, 276, 281, 315, 322, 331. ---- Lamb's last contribution to, 408. Love and anatomy, 64. "Love for Love," by Congreve, 160. Lovel. _See_ John Lamb. Lovell, Daniel, 255, 432. Lully, Raymond, 49, 196. "Lun's Ghost," 113, 387. Luther's _Table Talk_ and Coleridge, 357. "Lycidas" in its original form, 346.
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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.
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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.
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_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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ugliness, Lamb on, 295. Unitarianism, 81, 373.
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VALENTINE'S DAY, 63, 370. Vallans, his "Tale of Two Swans," 375. Virgil, his Latin pun, 294, 441. Visitors, Lamb on, 301, 442.
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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.
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_Yet can I fancy, wandering 'mid thy towers_, 346.