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.

HWF 806 Hy

F-5417
F-896

COLLEGE

MAY 23 1918'

LIBRARY

Cast of
William Mo

20413.16.4.5(2),

75*141

HARVARD

CONTENTS.

I.

SOCIAL MORALITY.

SUCKLING AND BEN JONSON.

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,

with a summary of his poetical character.
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II.

POPE, IN SOME LIGHTS IN WHICH HE IS NOT

USUALLY REGARDED.

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-

ably together." Rondeaulx," and a Rondeau.

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