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Blakesmoor in H-Shire -- Poor Relations -- Detached Thoughts on Books and Readings -- Stage Illusion -- To the Shade of Elliston -- Ellistoniana -- The Old Margate Hoy -- The Convalescent -- Sanity of True Genius -- Captain Jackson -- The Superannuated Man -- The Genteel Style in Writing -- Barbar S- -- The Tombs in the Abbey -- Amicus Redivivus -- Some Sonnets of SirPhilip Sydney -- Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago -- Barenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Production of Modern Art -- The Wedding -- Rejoicings Upon the New Year's Coming of Age -- Old China -- The Child Angel; a Dream -- Confessions of a Drunkard -- Popular Fallacies:That a Bully is Never a Coward, That Ill-Gotten Gain Never Prospers, That a Man Must not Laugh at his Own Jest, That Such a One Shows his Breeding-That it is Easy to Perceive he is no Gentleman, That the Poor Copy the Vices of the Rich, That Enough is as Good as a Feast, Of Two Disputants, the Warmest is Generally in the Wrong, That Verbal Allusions are not Wit, Because They Will not Bear a Translation, That the Worst Puns are the Best, That Handsome is that Handsome Does, That we must not Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth, That Home is Home Though it is Never so Homely, That You Must Love Me and Love my Dog, That we Should Rise With the Lark, That we Should lie Down with the Lamb, That a Sulky Temper is a Misfortune -- Notes -- Mrs. Leicester's School:The Sailor Uncle, The Farmhouse, The Changeling, The Father's Wedding-Day, The Young Mahometan, Visit to the Cousins, The Witch Aunt, The Merchant's Daughter, First Going to Church, The Sea-Voyage. |