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The Bed-Book of Happiness: Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tiredBegbie, Harold

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The Bed-Book of Happiness: Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired

Name: The Bed-Book of Happiness: Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired
Author: Begbie, Harold

Begbie, Harold

Literature -- Collections

LEIGH, HENRY S.:
       Where--and oh! Where?                         33
       The Answer of Lady Clara Vere de Vere        252

  LEWES, G.H.:
       Goethe's Mother                               28

  MACAULAY, LORD:
       "Boswell and Johnson"                        102
       Macaulay's Wit                               290

  MERIVALE, CHARLES:
       From the Greek Anthology                     313

  MONTAIGNE:
       Odours and Moustaches                        415

  PERCY ANECDOTES:
       The Great Condé                                2
       A Classical Ass                                3
       Memory                                         4
       "Come in Here"                                 4
       A Pope Innocent                                5
       A Good Paraphrase                              5
       Irish Priest                                   6
       A Digression                                   7
       Fortune-teller                                 7
       Gasconades                                     8
       Tribute to Beauty                              8
       Begging Quarter                                9
       Gascon Reproved                                9
       Absent Man                                    11
       Pride                                         12
       Witty Coward                                  12
       Valuing Beauty                                12
       Pro Aris et Focis                             14

  PRIOR, MATTHEW:
       Epigrams                                     345

  RELIGIO MEDICI:
       The Happiness of Sir Thomas Browne           244

  RICHTER:
       Theisse                                        1
       Broken Studies                                 1

  ROBINSON, CRABB:
       Your Hat, Sir                                191

  SAINTE-BEUVE:
       The Charming Frenchman: Bossuet, Rousseau,
         Joubert, Mme D'Houdetot, Mme de
         Rémusat, Diderot, La Bruyère               269

  SELDEN, JOHN:
       Table-talk of John Selden                    309

  SMITH, ALEXANDER:
       Dreamthorp                                   418

  SMITH, SYDNEY:
       A Little Moral Advice                        360
       Mrs. Partington                              363

  STEPHEN, J.K.:
       In a Visitor's Book                          126
       A Sonnet                                     345

  STERNE:
       The Supper                                   118
       The Grace                                    120
       Uncle Toby and the Fly                       277

  STOW:
       Old London Sports                            314

  THACKERAY:
       Letters from Thackeray                       406

  THOMSON, MISS E.G.:
       Lewis Carroll                                380

  THOREAU:
       Open Air                                     339

The Bed-Book of Happiness: Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired

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