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DEATH-BED SCENES,
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Impatience.—IX. Religious Melancholy.—X.
Scepticism.
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS,
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XXI.
ELIA.
Essays that have appeared under that signature in the London
Magazine. First Series. Second Edition.
Contents.—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 opinion on Whist.—A
Chapter on Ears.—All Fools' Day.—A Quaker Meeting.—The
old and new Schoolmaster.—Valentine's Day.—Imperfect Sympathies.—Witches
and other Night Fears.—My Relations.—
Mackery End, in Hertfordshire.—Modern Gallantry.—The Old
Benches of the Middle Temple.—Grace before Meat.—My first
Play.—Dream Children: a reverie.—Distant Correspondents.—
The praise of Chimney-Sweepers.—A compaint of the Decay of
Beggars 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.
ELIA.—Second Series.
Contents.—To Elia.—Rejoicings upon the New Year's coming
of Age.—Reflections on the Pillory.—Twelfth Night, or What
You Will.—The Old Margate Hoy.—On the inconveniences resulting
from being Hanged.—Letter to an Old Gentleman whose
education has been neglected.—Old China.—On Burial Societies,
and Character of an Undertaker.—Barbara S.—.—Guy Faux
—Poor Relations.—A Vision of Horns.—On the Danger of Confounding
Moral with Personal Deformity.—On the Melancholy of
Tailors.—The Nuns and Ale of Caverswell.—Valentine's Day.—
The Child Angel.—Amicus Redivivus.—Blakesmore in H—
shire.—Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.—Captain
Jackson.—Confessions of a Drunkard.—The Old Actors.—The
Gentle Giantess.—A Character of the late Elia.
