The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 / Miscellaneous Prose

by Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb

• Abbey, Westminster, the charge for admittance, [276], [508].
• Acting, The New, [176], [465].
• Actors, The Religion of, [337], [521].
• contrasted with dramatists, [113].
• Actresses, their scarcity in 1813, [177].
• Advertisements for apprehending offenders, [74].
• "Alaham," by Lord Brooke, [58].
• Album Verses, Lamb's review of, [391], [544].
• "Alchemist, The," by Ben Jonson, [60], [306].
• Allan Clare. See Rosamund Gray.
• "All's Well that Ends Well," by Shakespeare, [62].
• Allsop, Thomas, [269], [504], [550].
• American War for Helen, An, [182], [468].
• Anatomy of Melancholy, The, [35], [440].
• Anaxarchus, the death of, [530].
• André, Major John, [277], [508].
• Anstey on nobility, [340].
• "Antonio and Mellida," by Marston, [51].
• Apparel, Lamb on distinctions in, [52].
• Appearance of the Season, An, [360], [531].
• Appetite, Edax on, 138, [454].
• Arcadia, The, by Sir Philip Sidney, [62].
• "Artaxerxes," by Arne, Lamb's first play, [186], [469].
• Articles conjecturally attributed to Lamb, [425], [427], [429], [430], [431], [432], [435], [443].
• "Artificial Comedy," Lamb's essay supplemented, [513].
• Ashmole, Elias, on nobility, [340].
• Ass, The, [356], [529].
• Athenæum, The, Lamb's contributions to, [397], [398], [400], [435].
• Audiences in Lamb's time, [57], [185].
• August 12th, its petition, [354], [528].
• Authorship, its mortifications, [322].
• Autobiographical Sketch, An, [375], [535].
• Autobiography of Mr. Munden, [314], [515].
• Ayrton, William, [270], [505].
• B
• Bacon, Lord, on the care of turf, [365].
• Barbers, their loquacity, [202], [474].
• Bard, The, by Thomas Gray, [181], [468].
• "Barnwell, George," by Lillo, [118].
• Barron Field's Poems, [232], [493].
• Barry, James, on Hogarth, [92].
• Baskett Prayer Book, a plate from, [282].
• Beadle, Lamb on the, [360], [531].
• Beaumont, Francis, [62].
• and Fletcher, paraphrased by Lamb, [407].
• Bees, The Fable of the, [141], [455].
• "Belles without Beaux," by Peake, [222], [490].
• Bethams, the length and tediousness of them, [318], [516].
• Bickerstaff, Isaac, his "Hypocrite," [221,] [489.]
• Bills of Mortality, [531.]
• Biographical Memoir of Mr. Liston, [292,] [512.]
• Bird, Mr. William, the Lambs' schoolmaster, [351.]
• Blackett, The Widow, "The Gentle Giantess," [248,] [497.]
• Blakesware and Lamb, [28,] [439,] [440.]
• Blind man at the play, a, [184.]
• Books with one Idea in them, [178,] [466.]
• Bourne, Vincent, Lamb's praise of, [391,] [544.]
• Bowles, Carrington, [386,] [543.]
• Boyer, James, his joke, [530.]
• Braham, his renunciation of Judaism, [338,] [522.]
• Brandon, Charles, his motto, [201,] [475.]
• British Lady's Magazine, Mary Lamb contributes to, [204.]
• "Broken Heart, The," by Ford, [57.]
• Brome, Richard, his "Jovial Crew," [219,] [486.]
• Brooke, Lord (Fulke Greville), [58.]
• Browne, Sir Thomas, [200,] [476.]
• Bunyan, unjust neglect of his secondary works, [381.]
• Burial societies, Lamb's essay on, [107.]
• Burnet's History of His Own Times quoted, [450.]
• Burney, Admiral, his card boys, [270,] [505.]
• Martin, Lamb's sonnet to, [437.]
• the Lambs' affection for, [437.]
• Burns, Robert, quoted, [22.]
• Burrell, Miss Lamb's article upon, [215,] [484.]
• Burton, Robert, and Lamb, [35,] [204,] [440.]
• "Bussy d'Ambois," by Chapman, [61.]
• "Byron's Conspiracy," by Chapman, [61.]
• "Byron's Tragedy," by Chapman, [61.]
• C
• "Cabbage," a slang term applied to tailors, [476.]
• Campbell, J. Dykes, quoted, [471.]
• Capital punishment, Lamb on, [527.]
• Captain Starkey, [351,] [528.]
• Carlyle, Thomas, and Lamb, [509.]
• Cary, Henry Francis, Lamb's friend, [269,] [504.]
• "Case is Altered, The," by Ben Jonson, [59.]
• "Cato," as performed by Mary Lamb's schoolfellows, [353.]
• Chambers family, Lamb's friends, [547.]
• Champion, The, Lamb's contribution to, [200,] [473.]
• Chapman, George, [61.]
• Character, A, [327,] [517.]
• Characters of Dramatic Writers Contemporary with Shakespeare, [48,] [445.]
• Charles II. and the Exchequer, [332,] [519.]
• Charnwood, its sombre influence on Liston, [295.]
• Charron, Pierre, his De la Sagesse, quoted, [178,] [466.]
• "Chessiad, The," by Dibdin, [429,] [552.]
• Chimney-sweep, the, in the fields, [179,] [467.]
• Christ's Hospital, Recollections of, [162,] [460.]
• its purpose, [162.]
• scandals, [461.]
• carols, [463.]
• Civilisation in New South Wales, [233.]
• Clare, Allan. See Rosamund Gray.
• Elinor. See Rosamund Gray.
• Clarence Songs, [383,] [539.]
• Clarkson, Thomas, Lamb's friend, [270,] [505.]
• Clerk, The Good, [148,] [455.]
• Coleridge, The Death of, [406,] [549.]
• Coleridge, S. T., on Hogarth, [91.]
• Lamb's friend, [269,] [504.]
• and Leigh Hunt, [273.]
• Coleridge, S. T., on men of genius, [486.]
• on Odes and Addresses, [519.]
• on George Dawe, [541.]
• his bequest to Lamb, [550.]
• Collier, Jeremy, on music, [183.]
• on Shakespeare, [183,] [468.]
• on anti-music, [358.]
• John Payne, his Poetical Decameron, [356,] [529.]
• his Old Man's Diary quoted, [441.]
• Collins, William, his Oriental Eclogues, [258.]
• Colman, George, licenser of plays, [521.]
• Colnett, Isaac, his epitaph in Waltham Abbey churchyard, [526.]
• Comedians, Lamb's favourite, [176,] [465.]
• Comic Tales by Dibdin, reviewed, [429.]
• Complete English Tradesman, The, by Defoe, [150,] [455.]
• Comus, Lamb on a suppressed passage in, [428.]
• Confessions of a Drunkard, [154,] [456.]
• H. F. V. H. Delamore, Esq., [246,] [496.]
• Cooke, G. F., in "Richard III.," [41,] [442.]
• as Lear, [443.]
• "Cooper's Hill," by Denham, [258.]
• Cornwall, Barry (B. W. Procter), his Rosamund Gray, [440.]
• Correggio, his "Vice," [159.]
• Cowper, William, his "John Gilpin," continued by Lamb, [368,] [533.]
• on squirrels, [359,] [531.]
• on Vincent Bourne, [544.]
• Cruelty to animals, [356.]
• donkeys, [530.]
• Cuckoldry, a fantasy upon, [299.]
• Cunningham, Allan, [269,] [504.]
• Cupid's Revenge, [407,] [550.]
• Curiosity, a study of, [324,] [326.]
• Curious Fragments from Burton, [35,] [440.]
• D
• Damned authors, a club of, [451.]
• Daniel, Samuel, his "Hymen's Triumph" quoted, [9.]
• on nobility, [341.]
• Davenant, William, his improved "Macbeth," [377,] [536.]
• Da Vinci, Leonardo, his portrait of Francis, [175.]
• Dawe, George, Lamb's recollections of, [385,] [540.]
• his life, [541.]
• and the negro, [542.]
• Defeat of Time, The, [369,] [534.]
• De Foe's Secondary Novels, [381,] [537.]
• De Foe, Daniel, his Complete English Tradesman, [150.]
• Lamb's letter upon, [538.]
• Deformity, Moral and Personal, essay on, [74,] [448.]
• not a sign of nobility, [340.]
• Defunct, The Illustrious, [304,] [514.]
• Dekker, Thomas, [50,] [55,] [64.]
• Delamore, H. F. V. H., Confessions of, [246,] [496.]
• Denham, John, his "Cooper's Hill," [258.]
• Dennis, John, and Pope, [203,] [476.]
• his character by Aaron Hill, [261.]
• De Quincey parodied by Lamb, [251,] [497.]
• "Deserted Village, The," by Goldsmith, [259.]
• Devils, Leigh Hunt upon, [495.]
• Dibdin, Charles, jr., reviewed by Lamb, [429,] [552.]
• Dilke, C. W., on Lamb as critic, [545.]
• "Distressed Poet," by Hogarth, [96.]
• "Doctor Faustus," by Marlowe, [49.]
• Dog Days, [430,] [553.]
• "Don Giovanni in London," [215.]
• Dramatic Criticisms, Five, [215,] [484.]
• Drayton, Michael, [53.]
• Drink, its dangers, [154.]
• Drunkard, A, Confessions of, [154,] [456.]
• Dryden and Collier, [183,] [468.]
• "Duchess of Malfi, The," by Webster, [56.]
• Dunstan, Sir Jeffrey, Reminiscence of, [366,] [532.]
• Dyer, George, quoted from, [174.]
• Lamb's friend, [270,] [505.]
• John, his "Ruins of Rome," [257.]
• E
• Early Journalism, [41,] [442.]
• Edax on Appetite, [138,] [454.]
• "Edmonton, The Merry Devil of," [52.]
• Education, suitable for an old gentleman, [251.]
• "Edward II.," by Marlowe, [49.]
• Egotism, a study of, [327.]
• "Election Entertainment," by Hogarth, [98.]
• "Elegy on a Country Churchyard," by Gray, [259.]
• Elia, His Letter to Southey, [265,] [498.]
• essay on "New Year's Eve," [266.]
• "Saying Grace," [266.]
• Elinor Clare. See Rosamund Gray.
• Eliott, General (Lord Heathfield), his famous troop, [201,] [475.]
• "English Traveller," by Heywood, [53.]
• Englishman's Magazine, Lamb's contributions to, [385,] [391.]
• Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, [240.]
• "Eve of St. Agnes, The," by Keats, [235,] [494.]
• Examiner, The, Lamb's contributions to, [174,] [176,] [178,] [179,] [180,] [181,] [182,] [183,] [184,] [215,] [219,] [221,] [222,] [225,] [229,] [232.]
• "Excursion, The," Lamb's Review of, [187,] [469.]
• F
• Fable of the Bees, The, by Mandeville, [141,] [455.]
• "Fair Quarrel, A," by Middleton and Rowley, [53.]
• Fairies, Lamb's prose poem, [369.]
• "Faithful Shepherdess," by Fletcher, [64.]
• Fallacy, A Popular, [340,] [523.]
• Falstaff's Letters, [225,] [491.]
• Fauntleroy, Henry, the forger, [333,] [519.]
• "Faustus, Doctor," by Marlowe, [49.]
• Faux, Guy, [278,] [509.]
• Hazlitt upon, [278,] [509.]
• Jeremy Taylor upon, [279.]
• February 29th, the plea of, [349,] [527.]
• Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, Lamb's contribution to, [217.]
• Field, Barron, His Poems, [232,] [493.]
• Fielding and Hogarth, [97,] [101.]
• Fire places, how to decorate, in summer, [364.]
• First-Fruits of Australian Poetry, [232,] [493.]
• Five Dramatic Criticisms, [215,] [484.]
• Fletcher, John, [62,] [63.]
• Foote, Marie, and Col. Berkeley, [521.]
• Foppington, Lord, on books, [367,] [533.]
• Ford, John, [55,] [57.]
• Forster, John, on Lamb, [444,] [549.]
• "Fortunatus, Old," by Dekker, [50.]
• "Four Groups of Heads," by Hogarth, [100.]
• Four Reviews, [225,] [491.]
• Friends who invade the home, [317,] [516.]
• Fuller, John, M.P., [511.]
• Fuller, Specimens from the Writings of, [130,] [453.]
• Fulton, Alexander, his epigrams, [182,] [468.]
• G
• Game, Thoughts on Presents of, [398,] [546.]
• Garrat election, the, [366,] [532.]
• Garrick, David, lines on his tomb, [113,] [452.]
• and Dr. Johnson, [309.]
• Gem, The, Lamb's contribution to, [379.]
• Gentle Giantess, The, [248,] [497.]
• Gentleman, Letter to an Old, [251,] [497.]
• Gentleman's Magazine, Lamb's contributions to, [153,] [162.]
• "George Barnwell," by Lillo, [118,] [452.]
• George IV., his true and State birthdays, [354,] [528.]
• Giantess, The Gentle, [248,] [497.]
• Gibbs, Sir Vicary, [511.]
• Gifford, William, his treatment of Lamb, [470,] [471.]
• Gilman, James, [269,] [504.]
• Gilpin, Mrs., Riding to Edmonton, [368,] [533.]
• "Gin Lane," by Hogarth, [85.]
• Gluttony analysed, [138,] [145.]
• Godwin, Mrs., as Mrs. Pry, [517.]
• William, jr., an unwelcome guest, [515.]
• Goldsmith, Oliver, "The Deserted Village," [259.]
• Good Clerk, The, a Character, [148,] [455.]
• Goodenough, Rev. Mr., his awful death, [294.]
• Gould, Mrs. (Miss Burrell) in "Don Giovanni in London," [215,] [484.]
• "Governor," Lamb's objection to the word, [475.]
• Grand State Bed, [44,] [444.]
• Grave, The Choice of A, [427,] [552.]
• Gray, Rosamund, [1,] [438.]
• First Edition, [438.]
• Gray's "Bard," [181,] [468.]
• Gray, Thomas, Lamb's criticisms upon, [181,] [259,] [425,] [551.]
• "The Elegy," [259.]
• Gresham, Sir Thomas, legend of, [535.]
• Greville, Fulke (Lord Brooke), [58.]
• Grimaldi, Joseph, Hood's ode to, [335.]
• his religious symbolism, [339.]
• Gunpowder Treason. See Guy Faux.
• Gutch, John Matthew, and Miss Kelly, [217,] [485.]
• and Wither, [477.]
• Guy Faux, [278,] [509.]
• and Carlyle, [509.]
• H
• Hamlet, the character of, [116.]
• Hanged, On the Inconveniences Resulting From being, [65,] [445.]
• Hares, their merits in life and death, [399.]
• "Harlot's Progress, The," by Hogarth, [84.]
• Harper's Magazine, Lamb's contribution to, [407.]
• Hay, William, on deformity, [341,] [523.]
• Hazlitt, William, Lamb's friend, [274,] [507.]
• on Guy Faux, [278,] [509.]
• on Hogarth and Lamb, [448.]
• on "Mr. H.," [450.]
• and the Burneys, [505.]
• on Lamb's letter to Southey, [505.]
• Heathfield, Lord, his famous troop, [201,] [475.]
• Helen of Troy and America, [182,] [468.]
• Heywood, Thomas, [53.]
• Hill, Aaron, his character of Dennis, [261.]
• Thomas, the original of "Tom Pry," [516.]
• Hissing at theatres, essay on, [101,] [449.]
• Histriomastix, a mock forerunner of, [292.]
• Hood's "Progress of Cant," [431,] [554.]
• Hogarth, The Genius and Character of, [81,] [448.]
• and Reynolds compared, [88.]
• Hogarth analogous to Smollett and Fielding, [97,] [100,] [101.]
• Holcroft, Thomas, Lamb's friend, [272,] [506.]
• Hone's Every-Day Book and Table Book, Lamb's contributions to, [349,] [351,] [354,] [356,] [359,] [360,] [361,] [366,] [368,] [369,] [430,] [526,] [554.]
• Hone, William, his career, [523.]
• his eulogies of Lamb, [525.]
• dedication to Lamb, [525.]
• Lamb's letters to, [526,] [533.]
• "Honest Whore, The," by Dekker, [51,] [89.]
• Hood, Thomas, his Odes and Addresses, [335,] [519.]
• his drawing of Mary Lamb, [368,] [533.]
• "Plea of the Midsummer Fairies," paraphrased, [369.]
• on Lamb's religion, [515.]
• and Coleridge, [520.]
• his dedication to Lamb, [534.]
• Horns, A Vision of, [299,] [513.]
• Hospita on the Immoderate Indulgence of the Pleasures of the Palate, [145,] [454.]
• Howell's "Letters," [426,] [551.]
• Hunt, Leigh, Lamb's friend, [272,] [445,] [506.]
• his poem to his son, [274,] [507.]
• on Lamb's Table Talk, [466.]
• Lamb as dramatic critic, [490.]
• and Keats, [495.]
• devils, [495.]
• Thornton, his training, [272,] [502.]
• Leigh Hunt's poem to, [274,] [507.]
• Lamb's poem to, [506.]
• Hutchinson, Mr. Thomas, quoted, [441,] [456.]
• "Hymen's Triumph," quoted, [9.]
• "Hypocrite, The," by Bickerstaff, [221.]
• I
• Illustrious Defunct, The, [304,] [514.]
• Indicator, The, Lamb's contribution to, [239.]
• "Industry and Idleness," by Hogarth, [96.]
• In re Squirrels, [359,] [530.]
• "Isabella and the Pot of Basil," by Keats, [235.]
• J
• Jew, Lamb on the modern, [49.]
• Jews, their Christianity, [338.]
• Johnson, Dr., and David Garrick, [309.]
• Jonson, Ben, [59.]
• quoted from, [306.]
• Jordan, Mrs., compared with Miss Kelly, [217.]
• Journalism, Early, [41,] [442.]
• "Jovial Crew," Richard Brome's, [219,] [486.]
• Judkins, Juke, Reminiscences of, [342,] [523.]
• K
• "Kangaroo, The," by Field, [234.]
• Keats' "Lamia," [235,] [494.]
• Keats, John, and Lamb, [495.]
• Kelly, Miss, at Bath, [217,] [485.]
• Lamb's praises of, [217,] [218,] [219,] [220,] [222,] [223,] [484,] [485.]
• compared with Mrs. Jordan, [217.]
• in various parts, [217,] [218,] [219,] [220,] [222,] [223.]
• Lamb proposes marriage to, [487,] [488.]
• her reply to Lamb, [488.]
• Lamb's reply to, [489.]
• Kemble, J. P., in Macbeth, [124.]
• Kenneys, Lamb's letter to, [517.]
• Ketch, Jack, his origin, [447.]
• L
• "Lælius," his reply to Lamb, [511.]
• Lamb, Charles, his story of "Rosamund Gray," [1,] [438.]
• Lamb, Charles, his imitations of Burton, [35,] [440.]
• on Cooke's acting, [41,] [442.]
• on Richard III., [41,] [122,] [426,] [442.]
• on the joys of London, [46,] [180,] [444,] [467.]
• on Shakespeare's contemporaries, [48,] [445.]
• on modern Jews, [49.]
• on love's sectaries, [50.]
• on distinctions in apparel, [52.]
• on the humours of hanging, [65,] [445.]
• on moral and personal deformity, [74,] [448.]
• on proper names, [80,] [448.]
• on the genius of Hogarth, [81,] [448.]
• on Mr. Barry, R.A., [92.]
• on hissing in theatres, [101,] [449.]
• on burial societies, [107,] [451.]
• on the character of an undertaker, [110.]
• on the tragedies of Shakespeare, [112,] [451.]
• on Garrick's tomb, [112.]
• on the character of Hamlet, [116.]
• on Macbeth, [123,] [126.]
• on King Lear, [124,] [376,] [401.]
• on stage accessories, [127.]
• on Thomas Fuller, [130,] [453.]
• on inordinate appetite, [138,] [454.]
• on the good clerk, [148,] [455.]
• on Defoe's Complete Tradesman, [150.]
• on the character of Robert Lloyd, [153,] [455.]
• on a drunkard's fate, [154,] [456.]
• on Christ's Hospital, [162,] [460.]
• on Reynolds and Da Vinci, [174,] [464.]
• on acting in 1813, [176,] [465.]
• on books with one idea in them, [178,] [466.]
• his recollections of a chimney-sweeper, [179,] [467.]
• on street conversation, [179,] [467.]
• on a town residence, [180,] [467.]
• on Gray's poems, [181,] [425,] [468,] [551.]
• on Fulton's epigrams, [182,] [468.]
• on Dryden and Collier, [183,] [468.]
• on his first play, [184,] [468.]
• on theatre audiences, [184.]
• on Wordsworth's Excursion, [187,] [469.]
• on the character of tailors, [200,] [473.]
• on the loquacity of barbers, [202,] [474.]
• on Wither's poetry, [210,] [477.]
• on long lines in poetry, [214.]
• on Miss Burrell's acting, [215,] [484.]
• on Mrs. Jordan and Miss Kelly, [217,] [485.]
• in praise of Miss Kelly, [217,] [218,] [219,] [220,] [222,] [223,] [485.]
• on Brome's "Jovial Crew," [219,] [486.]
• on Bickerstaff's "Hypocrite," [221,] [487.]
• on the acting of Dowton, [221.]
• on the acting of Pearman, [222.]
• on Wilkinson in "A Walk for a Wager," [224.]
• on Falstaff's Letters, [225,] [491.]
• on Charles Lloyd's "Nugæ Canoræ," [229,] [493.]
• on Barron Field's poems, [232,] [493.]
• on Australia, [232.]
• on John Keats, [235,] [494.]
• on Sir Thomas More, [239,] [495.]
• on being put in the stocks, [246,] [496.]
• on a Cambridge giantess, [248,] [497.]
• on the education of an old gentleman, [251,] [497.]
• and De Quincey, [251,] [497.]
• on Scott of Amwell's criticisms, [257,] [498.]
• on the character of Ritson, [258.]
• on Southey's intolerance, [265,] [498.]
• on personal religion, [266.]
• on his friends, [269,] [503.]
• on the charges at Westminster Abbey, [275,] [508.]
• on the Gunpowder Treason, [279,] [509.]
• on Sycorax in "The Tempest," [286,] [511.]
• his invented life of Liston, [292,] [512.]
• on cuckoldry, [299,] [513.]
• on lotteries, [304,] [514.]
• is taken to the Guildhall to see the lottery drawn, [305.]
• on the marriage of Nonconformists, [310,] [514.]
• his invented autobiography of Munden, [314,] [515.]
• his essay signed "Lepus," [317,] [515.]
• on thoughtless visitors, [317,] [516.]
• on spurious book lovers, [320.]
• on the mortifications of authorship, [322.]
• and the last peach, [333,] [519.]
• on the temptation to pilfer, [333.]
• on Odes and Addresses, [335,] [519.]
• on punning, [335,] [520.]
• on the religion of actors, [337,] [521.]
• on the conversion of a Jew, [338.]
• on deformity and nobility, [340.]
• on a stingy man, [342.]
• on February [29,] [349.]
• on his earliest school-days, [351.]
• on George IV.'s birthday, [354,] [528.]
• on the character of the ass, [356,] [529.]
• on cruelty to animals, [356,] [530.]
• on squirrels, [359,] [530.]
• on beadles, [360,] [531.]
• and the bookseller, [361.]
• on the Queenlike Closet, [361,] [532.]
• on Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, [366,] [532.]
• his continuation of "John Gilpin," [368,] [533.]
• on Enfield stiles, [369,] [533.]
• his paraphrase of Hood, [369.] [534.]
• his autobiography, [375,] [535.]
• on Shakespeare's "improvers," [376,] [535.]
• on cleanliness and godliness, [379.]
• on the tender mercies of grandmothers, [380,] [537.]
• on Defoe, [381,] [537.]
• on Clarence songs, [383,] [539.]
• on George Dawe, [385,] [540.]
• on Vincent Bourne, [391,] [544.]
• on his own Album Verses, [395,] [544.]
• on the death of Munden, [397,] [545.]
• on presents of game, [398,] [546.]
• on beggars, [400,] [547.]
• on marriage, [400.]
• on beautiful wives, [400.]
• on elopements, [400.]
• his story on Will Dockwray, [401.]
• on Milton, [401,] [428.]
• on parenthesis, [402,] [548.]
• on advice, [403.]
• on laxity in words, [404.]
• on absurd images, [405.]
• on Shakespeare's character, [405.]
• on sauces, [406.]
• on the death of Coleridge, [406,] [549.]
• on the choice of a grave, [427,] [552.]
• on a passage in Comus, [428.]
• on John Wilkes, [428,] [552.]
• on pride, [429.]
• on Dibdin's Comic Tales, [429,] [552.]
• on mad dogs, [430,] [553.]
• on Moxon's Sonnets, [435,] [554.]
• his Works, [437.]
• his sonnet to Martin Burney, [437.]
• and the Morning Post, [440.]
• on Shakespeare and Burton, [441.]
• and his sister in London late in life, [444.]
• his hallucination, [453.]
• on Donne and Cowley, [454.]
• and stimulants, [456.]
• on his "Confessions of a Drunkard," [456.]
• his signatures in The Examiner, [464.]
• and the chimney-sweeper, [467.]
• letter to Wordsworth, [470.]
• letter to John Scott, [473.]
• on Dr. Nott, [478.]
• proposes marriage to Miss Kelly, [487,] [488.]
• refused by Miss Kelly, [488.]
• his reply to Miss Kelly, [489.]
• his private letters to Southey, [501.]
• as Captain and Mr. Lion, [524.]
• his letter to Hone on Colnett's epitaph, [526.]
• on reticence in writing, [548.]
• articles conjecturally attributed to him, [425,] [427,] [429,] [430,] [431,] [432,] [435,] [443,] [484,] [492,] [544.]
• Mary, on needlework, [204,] [477.]
• on the duty of wives, [208.]
• her reminiscences of school days, [353.]
• "Lamia," by Keats, reviewed by Lamb, [235,] [494.]
• Last Peach, The, [333,] [519.]
• Latin Poems of Vincent Bourne, [391,] [544.]
• "Lear, King," unsuitable for the stage, [124.]
• improved by Tate, [376,] [535.]
• the final scene, [401,] [548.]
• "Lepus," Papers, The, [317,] [319,] [322,] [324,] [326,] [327,] [515.]
• Leslie, C. R., on Lamb, [459.]
• Maria. See Rosamund Gray.
• Letter of Elia to Robert Southey, [265,] [498.]
• Letter to an Old Gentleman whose Education has been Neglected, [251,] [497.]
• Lewis, "Gentleman," and "Mr. H.," [545.]
• Lillo's "George Barnwell," [118.]
• Lion, Mr., his joke, [524.]
• Liston, Mr., Biographical Memoir, [292,] [512.]
• John, as Lord Grizzel, [177.]
• his real life, [512.]
• Literary Gazette and Lamb, [502.]
• Livingstone, L. S., and Wither, [481,] [482.]
• Lloyd, Charles, His "Nugæ Canoræ," [229,] [493.]
• on Lamb, [493.]
• Robert, Memoir of, [153,] [455.]
• Lamb's letter to, [442.]
• London home, Lamb's choice of a, [180.]
• London Magazine, Lamb's contributions to, [246,] [248,] [251,] [257,] [265,] [278,] [285,] [288,] [292,] [299,] [310,] [314,] [329,] [333,] [425,] [427,] [457.]
• Londoner, The, [46,] [444.]
• Lotteries, a lament for, [304.]
• "Lust's Dominion," by Marlowe, [48.]
• M
• "Macbeth" and the witches, [55.]
• his murder of Duncan, [123.]
• unsuitable for the stage, [126.]
• improved by Davenant, [377,] [536.]
• "Maid's Tragedy, The," by Beaumont and Fletcher, [62.]
• Mandeville, Bernard, his Fable of the Bees, [141,] [454,] [455.]
• Many Friends, [317,] [516.]
• "March to Finchley," by Hogarth, [92.]
• Margaret, Old. See Rosamund Gray.
• Maria Leslie. See Rosamund Gray.
• Marlowe, Christopher, [48.]
• "Marriage à la Mode," by Hogarth, [95.]
• law for Nonconformists, [310.]
• Marston, John, [51.]
• Massinger, Philip, [64.]
• Matravis. See Rosamund Gray.
• Meanness personified in Juke Judkins, [342.]
• "Measure for Measure," by Shakespeare, [72,] [446.]
• Melancholy, Anatomy of, [35,] [440.]
• Memoir of Robert Lloyd, [153,] [455.]
• "Merry Devil of Edmonton, The," [52.]
• Middleton, Thomas, [53,] [55,] [64.]
• Milton's description of hissing, [102.]
• Milton, his Tractate on Education, [256.]
• Lamb and Johnson on Paradise Lost, [401.]
• a suppressed passage in Comus, [428,] [552.]
• Minikin, Mrs., Lamb's cook, [547.]
• Miscellany, The, [427,] [552.]
• Monkhouse, Thomas, Lamb's friend, [270,] [504.]
• Months, The, [361,] [531.]
• More, Sir Thomas, [239,] [495.]
• on Sir Thomas Hytton, [239.]
• and Erasmus, [240.]
• on relics of the cross, [241.]
• on the miracle of conception, [243.]
• Morland, George, his dependence on stimulants, [160,] [460.]
• Morning Post, Lamb's contributions to, [41,] [44,] [46,] [440,] [444.]
• Mortifications of an Author, [322,] [516.]
• Moseley, Humphrey, the bookseller, [435,] [554.]
• Moxon, Edward, reviewed by Lamb, [435,] [554.]
• his Sonnets, [435.]
• his career, [554.]
• Mr. Ephraim Wagstaff, his Wife and Pipe, [432,] [554.]
• "Mr. H.," Lamb's farce, its fate, [449.]
• Mrs. Gilpin Riding to Edmonton, [368,] [533.]
• Munden, Mr., The Autobiography of, [314,] [515.]
• The Death of, [397,] [545.]
• Munden, Joseph, his genius, [397.]
• his true life, [515.]
• Murderers, difficulty of describing, [79.]
• Music, its reverse, [358.]
• "Mustapha," by Lord Brooke, [58.]
• N
• Needlework, On, [204,] [477.]
• New Acting, The, [176,] [465.]
• New Monthly Magazine, Lamb's contributions to, [304,] [337,] [340,] [342,] [375,] [406,] [554.]
• New Pieces at the Lyceum, [222,] [490.]
• New South Wales, Lamb's hopes for it, [233.]
• New Times, The, Lamb's contributions to, [235,] [317,] [319,] [322,] [324,] [326,] [327,] [335,] [429.]
• "New Wonder, A," by Rowley, [54.]
• Nobility and deformity, [340.]
• Norris, Randal, [269,] [503.]
• North, Christopher (John Wilson), on Lamb and Southey, [499.]
• Nott, Dr. John, on Lamb and Wither, [478.]
• Novel, fragment of, by Lamb, [342.]
• "Nugæ Canoræ," by Charles Lloyd, reviewed, [229,] [493.]
• Nugæ Criticæ on a Passage in "The Tempest," [285,] [511.]
• O
• "O. P." Riots, [451.]
• "Odes and Addresses to Great People," [335,] [519.]
• Ogilby, John, on Algiers, [286.]
• "Old Fortunatus," by Dekker, 50
• Old Gentleman, Letter to, [251,] [497.]
• "Old Law," by Massinger, Middleton and Rowley, [64.]
• On the Ambiguities Arising from Proper Names, [80,] [448.]
• Burial Societies and the Character of an Undertaker, [107,] [451.]
• the Custom of Hissing at Theatres, [101,] [449.]
• Danger of Confounding Moral with Personal Deformity, [74,] [448.]
• Genius and Character of Hogarth, [81,] [448.]
• Inconveniences Resulting from being Hanged, [65,] [445.]
• Melancholy of Tailors, [200,] [473.]
• Needlework, [204,] [477.]
• the Poetical Works of George Wither, [210,] [477.]
• Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered With Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation, [112,] [451.]
• Oriental Eclogues, by Collins, [258.]
• Original Letter of James Thomson, [288,] [512.]
• "Othello," unsuitable for the stage, [125.]
• P
• Parliament under explosion, [284,] [510.]
• Passion, debased, in modern theatre, [56.]
• Patmore, P. G., Lamb's letter to, [553.]
• Peach, The Last, [333,] [519.]
• Penny, Mr., and Hogarth, [93.]
• "Philaster," by Beaumont and Fletcher, [63.]
• Phillips, Colonel, Lamb's friend, [270,] [505.]
• Pig superseded by hare as a delicacy, [399.]
• Pilgrim, The, by Bishop Patrick, [178,] [466.]
• Pillory: Reflections in the, [329,] [518.]
• [518.]
• Play-house Memoranda, [184,] [468.]
• "Poetaster, The," by Jonson, [60.]
• Poetical Decameron, by J. P. Collier, [356,] [529.]
• Poetry, Lamb on length of lines in, [214.]
• Pope, Alexander, his satire against Dennis, [203,] [476.]
• Popular Fallacy, A, [340,] [523.]
• Pride, A Check to, [429,] [552.]
• Prior, Matthew, his "Henry and Emma," [548.]
• Procter, B. W. (Barry Cornwall), [269,] [504.]
• "Progress of Cant, The," [431,] [554.]
• "Progress of Poesy," by Gray, quoted, [425,] [551.]
• Proper names, essay on, [80,] [448.]
• Pry, Tom, [324,] [516.]
• His Wife, [326,] [517.]
• Prynne parodied by anticipation, [292.]
• Pulham, John Brook, and Lamb, [496.]
• Punning, the theory of, [335.]
• Puns and civilisation, [233.]
• Q
• Quarterly Review, its attitude to Lamb, [458,] [471,] [498.]
• Lamb on The Excursion, [187,] [469.]
• Southey's review of Elia, [265,] [498.]
• Queenlike Closet, The, by Hannah Woolley, [361,] [532.]
• R
• "Rake's Progress, The," by Hogarth, [82,] [87,] [95.]
• Readers against the Grain, [319,] [516.]
• Reading as a Fashion, [321.]
• Recollections of Christ's Hospital, [162,] [460.]
• A Late R.A., [385,] [540.]
• Reflections in the Pillory, [329,] [518.]
• Reflector, The, Lamb's contributions to, [65,] [74,] [80,] [81,] [101,] [107,] [112,] [130,] [138,] [145,] [148,] [162,] [210,] [278,] [445.]
• "Relapse, The," quoted from, [367,] [533.]
• Religion of Actors, The, [337,] [521.]
• Remarkable Correspondent, [349,] [527.]
• Reminiscence of Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, [366,] [532.]
• Reminiscences of Jude Judkins, [342,] [523.]
• Reprints of "Elia," [457.]
• "Revenger's Tragedy, The," by Tourneur, [56.]
• Review of Dibdin's "Comic Tales," [429,] [552.]
• "The Excursion," [187,] [469.]
• Hood's "Odes and Addresses," [335,] [519.]
• Keats' "Lamia," [235,] [494.]
• Lloyd's Poems, [229,] [493.]
• Moxon's "Sonnets," [435,] [554.]
• White's "Falstaff's Letters," [225,] [491.]
• Reynolds, J. H., his Odes and Addresses, [335,] [519.]
• and Leonardo da Vinci, [174,] [464.]
• Sir Joshua, [85,] [87,] [174,] [449,] [464.]
• "Rich Jew of Malta, The," by Marlowe, [49.]
• Richard III., his character, [41,] [122,] [426.]
• Richard III., his deformity no precedent of nobility, [341.]
• Richardson, Samuel, against virtue, [50.]
• "Rimini, The Story of," by Leigh Hunt, [272,] [506.]
• Ritson versus John Scott the Quaker, [257,] [498.]
• Robinson, H. Crabb, [270,] [459,] [504.]
• Rosamund Gray, [1,] [438.]
• Rowley, William, [53,] [54,] [55,] [64.]
• Roxana, by Defoe, [539.]
• "Ruins of Rome," by Dyer, [257.]
• Rutter, Mr. J. A., [553.]
• S
• Salutation, The, in Newgate Street, [551.]
• Samson and Delilah, painted by Dawe, [388,] [543.]
• Saturday Night, [379,] [537.]
• Sauces, Lamb on, [406.]
• Scott, John, of Amwell, and Ritson, [257,] [498.]
• Scraps of Criticism, [425,] [551.]
• Seasons, The, by Thomson, [262.]
• Shadwell, Thomas, his improved "Timon," [377,] [536.]
• Shakespeare's Tragedies, [112,] [451.]
• Shakespeare: character of Richard III., [41,] [122,] [426.]
• his poetical contemporaries, [48.]
• "All's Well that Ends Well," [62.]
• his richness, [63.]
• "Measure for Measure" quoted, [72.]
• "Timon of Athens," [82,] [377,] [536.]
• "Tarquin and Lucrece," [86.]
• his tragedies unfitted for stage, [112.]
• "Lear," [124,] [376,] [401,] [536,] [548.]
• "Tempest," [127,] [285,] [511.]
• and Jeremy Collier, [183,] [468.]
• his characters, [405.]
• Shirley, James, [65.]
• Sir Thomas More, [239,] [495.]
• Sittingbourne, Mrs. Liston's supposed aunt, [295.]
• Smith, Mrs., the biggest woman in Cambridge, [497.]
• Smollett, Tobias, his Ferdinand Count Fathom quoted, [449.]
• and Hogarth, [97,] [100,] [101.]
• Snakes typifying stage critics, [104,] [105.]
• Sonnet occasioned by reading Elia's Letter to Dr. Southey, [508.]
• Southey, Robert, Elia's Letter to, [265,] [498.]
• his ecclesiastical levities, [267.]
• on infidelity, [270.]
• and "Rosamund Gray," [439,] [440.]
• his letter to Lamb, [501.]
• his verses on Lamb, [502.]
• on Thornton Hunt, [502.]
• on scepticism, [506.]
• Specimens from the Writings of Fuller, the Church Historian, [130,] [453.]
• Spectator, The, Lamb's contribution to, [376,] [383.]
• Spencer, Robert William, [80,] [448.]
• Spenser, Edmund, and his namesake, [80,] [448.]
• Squirrels, In Re, [359,] [530.]
• Stage lighting in Lamb's time, [453.]
• "Stages of Cruelty," by Hogarth, [96.]
• Starkey, Captain, [351,] [528.]
• State Bed, Grand, [44,] [444.]
• Steele, Sir Richard, his "Funeral," [451.]
• Stocks, Lamb in the, [247.]
• Street Conversation, [179,] [467.]
• "Strolling Players," by Hogarth, [90.]
• Surprise, A Sylvan, [179,] [467.]
• Swinburne, Mr. A. C., quoted, [478.]
• Sycorax, the witch, in "The Tempest," [286,] [511.]
• Sylvan Surprise, A, [179,] [467.]
• T
• Table for Twelfth Day, [44,] [444.]
• Table Talk in "The Examiner," [174,] [464.]
• by the Late Elia, [400,] [547.]
• Tailors, On the Melancholy of, [200,] [473.]
• Talfourd, T. N., [269,] [503.]
• his criticism of Munden, [546.]
• "Tamburlaine the Great," by Marlowe, [49.]
• "Tarquin and Lucrece," by Shakespeare, [86.]
• Tate, Nahum, his improved "King Lear," [376.]
• Taylor, Jeremy, on the Gunpowder Treason, [279,] [510.]
• "Tempest, The," as altered by Dryden, [127.]
• On a Passage in, [285,] [511.]
• criticism by "Lælius," [511.]
• Theatre, Lamb's delight in, [185.]
• "Thierry and Theodoret," by Fletcher, [63.]
• Thompson, Marmaduke, Lamb's dedication to, [438.]
• Thomson, James, Original Letter of, [288,] [512.]
• The Seasons, [262,] [473.]
• Thoughts on Presents of Game, [398,] [546.]
• Time, The Defeat of, [369,] [534.]
• Times, The, on Lamb and Southey, [499.]
• "Timon of Athens" and "The Rake's Progress," [82.]
• improved by Shadwell, [377,] [536.]
• Tobacco, the perils of, [157.]
• Tom Pry, [324,] [516.]
• Pry's Wife, [326,] [517.]
• Tourneur, Cyril, [56,] [159.]
• Town Residence, A, [180,] [467.]
• Tudors and Stuarts contrasted, [405.]
• Twelfth Day, Table for, [44,] [444.]
• Twelfth of August, [354,] [528.]
• U
• Undertaker, the character of an, [110.]
• Undertaking, its humours, [107.]
• Unitarian Protests, [310,] [514.]
• Unitarianism and Lamb, [507,] [515.]
• Upcott, William, [535.]
• V
• Vertot, the Abbé de, as historian, [304.]
• "Vicar and Moses," the song, [282.]
• "Virgin Martyr, The," by Massinger and Dekker, [64.]
• Vision of Horns, A, [299,] [513.]
• "Vittoria Corombona" ("The White Devil"), [57.]
• W
• Wagstaff, Mr. Ephraim, [432,] [554.]
• Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths, [269,] [503,] [518.]
• Waiting at table, rules for, [365.]
• Wales, William, master at Christ's Hospital, [171,] [463.]
• Wealth for ten minutes, [308.]
• Webster, John, [56.]
• Westminster Abbey, charge for admittance, [275,] [508.]
• "What you Will," by Marston, [52.]
• White, James, his Falstaff's Letters, [225,] [491,] [492.]
• "White Devil, The," by Webster, [57.]
• "Whore, The Honest," by Dekker, [51,] [89.]
• Wicliffe, his ashes, [137,] [453.]
• Widford in Hertfordshire, [27,] [440.]
• Wilkes, John, and the blackbirds, [428,] [552.]
• in Southey's "Vision of Judgment," [503.]
• Wilkinson, T. P., in "A Walk for a Wager," [224,] [491.]
• William IV., songs referring to, [383,] [539.]
• Wilson, John. See Christopher North.
• Walter, Lamb's friend, [537.]
• on Charles Lamb, [539.]
• "Witch, The," by Middleton, [55.]
• "Witch of Edmonton, The," by Rowley, Dekker and Ford, [55.]
• Wither, George, His Poetical Works, [210,] [477.]
• his life, [483.]
• "Woman Killed with Kindness," by Heywood, [53.]
• Woolley, Hannah, her Queenlike Closet, [361,] [532.]
• Wordsworth, William, [269,] [504.]
• Lamb's review of his Excursion, [187,] [469.]
• his sonnet on "Wicliffe," [453.]
• Works, by Charles Lamb, [437.]
• Wrench, B., in "The Hypocrite," [222.]

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'dish of sweatbreads' may be 'dish of sweetbreads'. Unchanged.

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'to be perferred' may be 'to be preferred'. Unchanged.

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