Devereux
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
DEDICATORY EPISTLE
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHER'S INTRODUCTION.
NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION (1852).
DEVEREUX.
BOOK I.
- CHAPTER I. OF THE HERO'S BIRTH AND
PARENTAGE.—NOTHING CAN DIFFER MORE FROM THE END OF THINGS THAN THEIR
BEGINNING.
- CHAPTER II. A FAMILY CONSULTATION.—A PRIEST, AND
AN ERA IN LIFE.
- CHAPTER III. A CHANGE IN CONDUCT AND IN CHARACTER:
OUR EVIL PASSIONS WILL SOMETIMES PRODUCE GOOD EFFECTS; AND ON THE
CONTRARY, AN ALTERATION FOR THE BETTER IN MANNERS WILL, NOT
UNFREQUENTLY, HAVE AMONGST ITS CAUSES A LITTLE CORRUPTION OF MIND; FOR
THE FEELINGS ARE SO BLENDED THAT, IN SUPPRESSING THOSE DISAGREEABLE TO
OTHERS, WE OFTEN SUPPRESS THOSE WHICH ARE AMIABLE IN THEMSELVES.
- CHAPTER IV. A CONTEST OF ART AND A LEAGUE OF
FRIENDSHIP.—TWO CHARACTERS IN MUTUAL IGNORANCE OF EACH OTHER, AND THE
READER NO WISER THAN EITHER OF THEM.
- CHAPTER V. RURAL HOSPITALITY.—AN EXTRAORDINARY
GUEST.—A FINE GENTLEMAN IS NOT NECESSARILY A FOOL.
- CHAPTER VI. A DIALOGUE, WHICH MIGHT BE DULL IF IT
WERE LONGER.
- CHAPTER VII. A CHANGE OF PROSPECTS.—A NEW INSIGHT
INTO THE CHARACTER OF THE HERO.—A CONFERENCE BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS.
- CHAPTER VIII. FIRST LOVE.
- CHAPTER IX. A DISCOVERY AND A DEPARTURE.
- CHAPTER X. A VERY SHORT CHAPTER,—CONTAINING A
VALET.
- CHAPTER XI. THE HERO ACQUITS HIMSELF HONOURABLY AS
A COXCOMB.—A FINE LADY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, AND A FASHIONABLE
DIALOGUE; THE SUBSTANCE OF FASHIONABLE DIALOGUE BEING IN ALL CENTURIES
THE SAME.
- CHAPTER XII. THE ABBE'S RETURN.—A SWORD, AND A
SOLILOQUY.
- CHAPTER XIII. A MYSTERIOUS LETTER.—A DUEL.—THE
DEPARTURE OF ONE OF THE FAMILY.
- CHAPTER XIV. BEING A CHAPTER OF TRIFLES.
- CHAPTER XV. THE MOTHER AND SON.—VIRTUE SHOULD BE
THE SOVEREIGN OF THE FEELINGS, NOT THEIR DESTROYER.
BOOK II.
- CHAPTER I. THE HERO IN LONDON.—PLEASURE IS OFTEN
THE SHORTEST, AS IT IS THE EARLIEST ROAD TO WISDOM, AND WE MAY SAY OF
THE WORLD WHAT ZEAL-OF-THE-LAND-BUSY SAYS OF THE PIG-BOOTH, “WE ESCAPE
SO MUCH OF THE OTHER VANITIES BY OUR EARLY ENTERING.”
- CHAPTER II. GAY SCENES AND CONVERSATIONS.—THE NEW
EXCHANGE AND THE PUPPET-SHOW.—THE ACTOR, THE SEXTON, AND THE BEAUTY.
- CHAPTER III. MORE LIONS.
- CHAPTER IV. AN INTELLECTUAL ADVENTURE.
- CHAPTER V. THE BEAU IN HIS DEN, AND A PHILOSOPHER
DISCOVERED.
- CHAPTER VI. A UNIVERSAL GENIUS.—PERICLES TURNED
BARBER.—NAMES OF BEAUTIES IN 171-.—THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB.
- CHAPTER VII. A DIALOGUE OF SENTIMENT SUCCEEDED BY
THE SKETCH OF A CHARACTER, IN WHOSE EYES SENTIMENT WAS TO WISE MEN WHAT
RELIGION IS TO FOOLS; NAMELY, A SUBJECT OF RIDICULE.
- CHAPTER VIII. LIGHTLY WON, LIGHTLY LOST.—A
DIALOGUE OF EQUAL INSTRUCTION AND AMUSEMENT.—A VISIT TO SIR GODFREY
KNELLER.
- CHAPTER IX. A DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTER, AND A LONG
LETTER; A CHAPTER, ON THE WHOLE, MORE IMPORTANT THAN IT SEEMS.
- CHAPTER X. BEING A SHORT CHAPTER, CONTAINING A
MOST IMPORTANT EVENT.
- CHAPTER XI. CONTAINING MORE THAN ANY OTHER CHAPTER
IN THE SECOND BOOK OF THIS HISTORY.
BOOK III.
BOOK IV.
BOOK V.
BOOK VI.
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