Miscellaneous Essays

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1. Curious Fragments
2. On the Inconveniences Resulting from Being Hanged
3. On the Danger of Confounding Moral with Personal Deformity
with a Hint to those who have the Framing of Advertisements for Apprehending Offenders
4. On the Genius and Character of Hogarth: With some Remarks on a Passage of the Writings of the Late Mr Barry
5. On the Custom of Hissing at the Theatres, with some Account of a Club of Damned Authors
6. On Burial Societies and the Character of an Undertaker
7. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation
8. Edax on Appetite
9. Hospita on the Immoderate Indulgence of the Pleasures of the Palate
10. The Good Clerk, a Character with Some Account of the 'Complete English Tradesman'
11. Recollections of Christ's Hospital
12. On the Melancholy of Tailors
13. The Gentle Giantess
14. Letter to an Old Gentleman whose Education has been Neglected
15. Guy Faux
16. Nugæ Criticæ
17. The Illustrious Defunct
18. Unitarian Protests
19. Reflections in the Pillory
20. The Last Peach
21. A Popular Fallacy
22. Captain Starkey
23. An Autobiographical Sketch
24. The Death of Coleridge.

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