THE WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB In Four Volumes VOL. IV. A New Edition 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 *DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MOTHER AND CHILD QUEEN ORIANA'S DREAM A BALLAD, NOTING THE DIFFERENCE OF RICH AND POOR, IN THE WAYS OF A RICH NOBLE'S PALACE AND A POOR WORKHOUSE HYPOCHONDRIACUS A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO _TO T. L. H., A CHILD_ BALLAD, FROM THE GERMAN *DAVID IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM *SALOME *LINES SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF TWO FEMALES, BY LIONARDO DA VINCI *LINES ON THE SAME PICTURE BEING REMOVED TO MAKE PLACE FOR A PORTRAIT OF A LADY BY TITIAN *LINES ON THE CELEBRATED PICTURE BY LIONARDO DA VINCI, CALLED THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS *ON THE SAME SONNETS:-- I. TO MISS KELLY II. ON THE SIGHT OF SWANS IN KENSINGTON GARDEN. III. IV. V. VI. THE FAMILY NAME VII. VIII. IX. TO JOHN LAMB, ESQ., OF THE SOUTH-SEA-HOUSE X. XI. BLANK VERSE:-- CHILDHOOD THE GRANDAME THE SABBATH BELLS FANCY EMPLOYED ON DIVINE SUBJECTS COMPOSED AT MIDNIGHT JOHN WOODVIL; A TRAGEDY THE WITCH, A DRAMATIC SKETCH OP THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY * * * * * ALBUM VERSES, WITH A FEW OTHERS. IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF MRS. SERGEANT W---- TO DORA W----, ON BEING ASKED BY HER FATHER TO WRITE IN HER ALBUM IN THE ALBUM OF A CLERGYMAN'S LADY IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH S---- IN THE ALBUM OF ROTHA Q---- IN THE ALBUM OF CATHERINE ORKNEY IN THE ALBUM OF LUCY BARTON IN THE ALBUM OF MRS. JANE TOWERS IN THE ALBUM OF MISS---- IN MY OWN ALBUM MISCELLANEOUS:-- ANGEL HELP ON AN INFANT DYING AS SOON AS BORN THE CHRISTENING THE YOUNG CATECHIST