Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1

Horace Smith

H. Colburn, 1825 - English essays - 699 pages

Contents

• WINTER: 1
• The Englishman in France: 13
• Pitcairns Island: 21
• A Sprig of Spleenwort: 27
• Pleasant Illusions: 36
• The Culprit and the Judge: 43
• The Widow of the Great Army: 53
• SongTo Fanny: 68
• On Noses: 83
• Walks in the Garden No I: 93
• May Morning: 104
• Walks in the Garden No II: 117
• Man versified from an Apologue: 127
• Address to the Mummy at Belzonis Exhibition: 137
• Walks in the Garden No IV: 151
• Coronation Extraordinary: 158
• Address to the Orange Tree at Versailles: 165
• Sunday in Paris: 179
• Address to the Alabaster Sarcophagus lately deposited: 222
• To a Log of Wood upon the Fire: 237
• The First of March: 249
• The Lawyer and the Chimney Sweeper: 262
• Letters from Paris No I Miss Mary Ball to Miss: 273
• On Asses: 280
• Peter Pindarics The Auctioneer and the Lawyer: 287
• Peter Pindarics The Fat Actor and the Rustic: 300
• Peter Pindarics Piron and the Judge of the Police: 313
• Rousseaus Hermitage: 320
• Satirists of Women Chances of Female Happiness: 326
• The Miseries of Reality: 344

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1; Volume 1 of Gaieties and Gravities, Horace Smith; Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Horace Smith
• Author: Horace Smith
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: H. Colburn, 1825
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 29, 2007
• Length: 699 pages