A SELECTION OF SKETCHES, ESSAYS, AND CRITICAL MEMOIRS, FROM HIS UNCOLLECTED PROSE WRITINGS. BY LEIGH HUNT. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. 1847. CONTENTS. I. Curious instance of variability in moral opinion.-Pope's tradition of Sir John Suckling and the cards.-New edition of Ben Jonson, and samples of the genius and arrogance of that writer, POPE, IN SOME LIGHTS IN WHICH HE IS NOT Unfaded interest of the subject of Pope and others.-Shakspeare not equally at home with modern life, though more so with general humanity.-Letters of Pope.-A wood-e ngraving a century ago.-Pope with a young lady in a stage-coach.- Dining with maids of honour.-Riding to Oxford by moon- light.-Lovability not dependent on shape.-Insincerity not always what it is taken for.-Whigs, Tories, and Catholics.- Masterly exposition of the reason why people live uncomfort- |