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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

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• SKETCHES.

• A Day at Ravenna, 3

• The Cholera in Sicily, 15

• The Capuchin of Pisa, 33

• San Marino, 43

• Turin, 61

• Love in a Lazzaret, 72

• Florence Revisited, 87

• The Thespian Syren, 118

• Modena, 139

• A Journey, 149

• Genoa, 157

• Bologna, 162

• Lucca, 171

• Leaf from a Log, 178

• THOUGHTS ON THE POETS.

• Goldsmith, 191

• Pope, 218

• Cowper, 227

• Shelley, 240

• Burns, 262

• Wordsworth, 276

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• Coleridge, 290

• Mrs. Hemans, 304

• Characteristics of Lamb, 316

• MISCELLANY.

• The Bachelor Reclaimed, 357

• Hair, 364

• Eye-Language, 371

• Art and Artists, 383

• The Weather, 400

• Manner, 408

• Pet-Notions, 416

• Loitering, 421

• Broad Views, 431