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THE

WORKS

OF

CHARLES LAMB.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. IV.

A NEW EDITION.

BOSTON

Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company.
117 Washington Street.

1860

Riverside, Cambridge:
Stereotyped and Printed by
H. O. Houghton.

CONTENTS.

ROSAMUND GRAY, ESSAYS, ETC.

• ROSAMUND GRAY
• ESSAYS:—
  • RECOLLECTIONS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL
  • ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKSPEARE, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR FITNESS FOR STAGE-REPRESENTATION
  • CHARACTERS OF DRAMATIC WRITERS, CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKSPEARE
  • SPECIMENS FROM THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN
  • ON THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF HOGARTH; WITH SOME REMARKS ON A PASSAGE IN THE WRITINGS OF THE LATE MR. BARRY
  • ON THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE WITHER

• LETTERS UNDER ASSUMED SIGNATURES, PUBLISHED IN "THE REFLECTOR":—

• THE LONDONER
• ON BURIAL SOCIETIES; AND THE CHARACTER OF AN UNDERTAKER
• ON THE DANGER OF CONFOUNDING MORAL WITH PERSONAL DEFORMITY; WITH A HINT TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE FRAMING OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR APPREHENDING OFFENDERS
• ON THE INCONVENIENCES RESULTING FROM BEING HANGED
• ON THE MELANCHOLY OF TAILORS
• HOSPITA ON THE IMMODERATE INDULGENCE OF THE PLEASURES OF THE PALATE
• EDAX ON APPETITE

• CURIOUS FRAGMENTS, EXTRACTED FROM A COMMONPLACE BOOK WHICH BELONGED TO ROBERT BURTON, THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
• MR. H——, A FARCE, IN TWO ACTS

POEMS.

[Those marked with an asterisk are by the Author's Sister.]

• HESTER
• TO CHARLES LLOYD, AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR
• THE THREE FRIENDS
• TO A RIVER IN WHICH A CHILD WAS DROWNED
• THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES
• *HELEN
• A VISION OF REPENTANCE
• ...