Essays of Elia / by Charles Lamb

Includes notes and index

The south-sea house Oxford in the vacation Christ's hospital five and thirty years ago The two races of men New year's eve Mrs. Battle's opinions on whist A chapter on ears All fools' day A quaker's meeting The old and the new schoolmaster Imperfect sympathies Witches and other nightfears Valentines day My relations Mackery end, in Hardfordshire My first play mModern gallantry The old benches of the inner temple Grace before meat Dream children; a reverie Distant correspondents The praise of chimney-sweepers A complaint of the decay of beggers in the metropolis A dissertation upon roast pig A bachelor's complaint of the behaviour of married people On some of the old actors On the artificial comedy of the last century On the acting of Munden