WITH NOTES, DESCRIPTIVE, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY;
AND A SELECTION OF OPINIONS REGARDING

THEIR GENIUS AND CHARACTERISTICS,

BY DISTINGUISHED CONTEMPORARIES AND FRIENDS,
AS WELL AS BY SUBSEQUENT CRITICS;

Preceded by

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MEMORIALS OF

A REVIEW OF, AND EXTRACTS FROM, BARRY CORNWALL'S
CHARLES LAMB;" WITH A FEW WORDS ON WILLIAM HAZLITT

AND HIS WRITINGS,

AND A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE WORKS OF

Charles Lamb.

BY

ALEXANDER IRELAND.

LONDON:

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.

1868.

TWO HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED.

TO

CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE,

THE INTIMATE COMPANION OF KEATS,

ONE OF THE FEW SURViving friends of lamb, HAZLITT, AND HUNT;

A DISCRIMINATING AND GENIAL CRITIC

OF OUR GREAT POETS, DRAMATISTS, AND PROSE-WRITERS,

(ESPECIALLY OF CHAUCER AND SHAKESPERE);

AS WELL AS AN ABLE EXPOSITOR OF THE WIT OF MOLIERE;

AND WHO,

IN HIS HALE AND CHEERFUL OLD AGE, PRESERVES

ALL THE FRESHNESS, ENTHUSIASM, AND GENEROUS SYMPATHIES OF YOUTH:

(THE RESULT OF SIXTEEN YEARS' LABOUR Of love),

WILL EVER HOLD AN HONOURABLE PLACE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE,

AS A MONUMENT OF

UNEXAMPLED INDUSTRY AND FAITHFUL ACCURACY,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

BY THEIR OLD AND ATTACHED FRIEND,

THE COMPILER.