Contents

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MEN ABOUT TOWN[13]
SOME EXQUISITES OF THE REGENCY[47]
A FORGOTTEN SATIRIST: “PETER PINDAR”[103]
STERNE’S ELIZA[129]
THE DEMONIACS[161]
WILLIAM BECKFORD OF FONTHILL ABBEY[189]
CHARLES JAMES FOX[219]
PHILIP, DUKE OF WHARTON[253]
INDEX[283]

List of Illustrations

“A VIEW FROM THE PUMP ROOM, BATH”
 A Facsimile Reproduction of a Drawing by Richard Deighton		[Frontispiece]
SIR JOHN LADE
 From the Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds		To face page [16]
THE PRINCE OF WALES
 From the Miniature by Cosway		"  "  [48]
LUMLEY SKEFFINGTON
 From a Contemporary Miniature		"  "  [80]
PETER PINDAR
 From the Painting by John Opie		"  " [112]
LAURENCE STERNE
 From the Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds		"  " [144]
WILLIAM BECKFORD
 From the Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds		"  " [192]
CHARLES JAMES FOX
 From the Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds		"  " [224]
PHILIP, DUKE OF WHARTON
 From a Contemporary Painting		"  " [256]

Some Eighteenth-Century Men about Town