| 单词 | Charles Lamb |
| 例句 | After a white woman in the tinsmith’s office read the story of Othello to him from Charles Lamb’s book “Tales From Shakespeare,” he became determined to attend school. Peter Abrahams, a South African Who Wrote of Apartheid and Identity, Dies at 97 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Charles Lamb, the English essayist, hoped his last breath would be inhaled through a pipe and exhaled in a pun. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z The novel’s self-deprecating title comes from a poem that Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote to Charles Lamb in 1794, describing his unflagging grief: Book review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ by Miriam Toews Some sneered at the enterprise’s commercialism, while the writer Charles Lamb lamented that the painters’ images of Juliet or Lear would “confine the illimitable” and supplant “my and everybody’s Shakespeare.” For a Shakespeare Anniversary, an Online Re-Creation of a 1796 Show 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z We agree with the English writer Charles Lamb, who hoped that “the last breath I draw in this world will be through a pipe, and exhaled in a pun.” Review: ‘Nicotine,’ the Stuff of Burning Desire 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The volume kicks off with Montaigne, followed by fragments of Bacon, Johnson, Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice – reviews 2012-05-25T21:55:07Z Writer Charles Lamb worked there for 33 years, and complained that “I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke.” We hate the office. We love the office. Do we want to go back? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z It seemed to be written by someone who was, as Charles Lamb said of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an archangel a little damaged. The Osage Indians Struck It Rich, Then Paid the Price 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z His friend Charles Lamb called him “a cracked archangel”, while his fellow drug addict Thomas De Quincey would defend his poetic experimentalism. Why Willem Dafoe, Iggy Pop and more are reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to us 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Keats met poet William Wordsworth for the first time at the party, which also included Haydon, writer Charles Lamb and explorer Joseph Ritchie. Stanley Plumly, Md. poet laureate who wrote of nature and memory, dies at 79 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Edmond city rules require that the name of late Mayor Charles Lamb, who died Dec. 11 while in office, must appear on Tuesday’s ballot facing Dan O’Neil, who also served as mayor. Dead mayor on ballot for Oklahoma municipal election 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Then-Edmond Mayor Charles Lamb died in December , after filing for the next election cycle. Dead Oklahoma mayor to remain on ballot for general election 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z New Year’s Day, as English essayist Charles Lamb put it, is every man’s birthday. North Carolina editorial roundup 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The British writer Charles Lamb was no stranger to workplace-induced despair. The Virtual-Reality App That Turns Your Office Into a Vacation Paradise 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z This is Charles Lamb, who wrote one of the best accounts of what it was actually like to be a clerk at the end of the 18th Century. Chained to the desk 2013-07-21T23:02:18Z In memory of Charles Lamb “The Gentle Elia” and author of Tales from Shakespeare, etc. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z I often visited a country minister, an intimate friend, a learned man, and a genius, the quaint originality of whose observations often reminded me of Fuller, the Church historian, or Charles Lamb. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Charles Lamb acutely penetrates the cause of a certain disappointment we all feel at the sight of the sea for the first time. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z As with Charles Lamb, a name one likes to link with his, the terrible shadow of madness fell upon him one day, never wholly to rise. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z They thought they were doing something in the manner of Dr. Johnson and Charles Lamb. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Charles Lamb remarks wisely, in his fine essay on "The Genius and Character of Hogarth, that his chief design was by no means to raise a laugh." English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z Ayrton, Charles Lamb's friend, only made one joke in his life; it was this. Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z In Mr. Stevenson's exquisite essays one looks in vain for the great heart that palpitates through the pages of Charles Lamb. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z Invited to breakfast with a gentleman in the temple to meet Charles Lamb and his sister—"Elia and Bridget Elia." Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z In preparing them he had the approval of Southey and the assistance of Charles Lamb, but pecuniarily they were not successful, and Hone was lodged in King’s Bench prison for debt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z If he agrees with Charles Lamb that Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise behave too much like married people, he quickly resents any tracing of a religion to an instinct or a perception. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In this region of the Porta Capuana one sees the people in what Charles Lamb would have called its quiddity. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Quaint in matter as in treatment, they are the best strictly literary essays of the day, and their mixture of tenderness with humor suggests Charles Lamb. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z To any one who loves the writings of Charles Lamb with but half my own enthusiasm, even these little particulars of an hour passed in his company, will have an interest. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z S. T. Coleridge wrote to Charles Lamb averring that the book must be his work. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z There are serious objections to quoting from Charles Lamb: you are never willing to end the transcription—you long to add just one phrase, one clause more. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Charles Lamb, who was indeed worthy to be called a human being because of those refined sympathies, said, "You call him a gentleman: does his washerwoman find him so?" Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The beauty and ingenuity of The Parliament of Bees were noted and warmly extolled by Charles Lamb; and Day’s work has since found many admirers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Charles Lamb argues against the common notion that it is a misfortune to a man to have a surly disposition. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z No wonder "Nature abhors lines" if this base and spurious imitation of the "old formality," that Charles Lamb gloats over, is all that the landscape-garden can offer in the way of idealisation. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z In later times Coleridge, Charles Lamb and others expended some of their most genial criticisms on this poet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z A phrenological report upon this gentleman by Charles Lamb would have enlarged "the public stock of harmless pleasure." Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Charles Lamb’s criticisms were made in three short pieces, two of which were written for Wilson’s book, and the third for The Reflector. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z We speak of the flavor of the essays of Charles Lamb. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Charles Lamb was not afraid to kick up his heels, and yet nobody will accuse him of being a trivial clown. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Throughout the play, as in its closing scene quoted by Charles Lamb in his Dramatic Specimens, there is much “passion and poetry” which saves the piece from being classed as pure melodrama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Charles Lamb once lent a volume of the old dramatists to a friend, and asked him his opinion of it. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z All the great humorists from Charles Lamb to Josh Billings were broken-hearted in their youth. Why Lincoln Laughed 2011-12-29T03:00:17.037Z Charles Lamb inclined to the opinion of his friend who held that "a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumpling." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z He had been the attached friend of Bernard Barton the Quaker poet, the friend of Charles Lamb. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z His confessions have the frankness of Montaigne, and almost the playful naïveté of Charles Lamb, combined with a vein of tender earnestness that stamps the individuality of the writer. Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z I suppose that, like Charles Lamb, I am squeamish about my women and children, and I remembered Mrs Smithson's post cards. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Charles Lamb’s many griefs, and especially his sorrow over his insane sister, were the black soil from which his genius grew. Why Lincoln Laughed 2011-12-29T03:00:17.037Z When Charles Lamb slipped on the London pavement, he found delight in watching the chimney sweep who stood laughing at his misfortune. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z They will be more to you if you have made sacrifices for their sake,—as Charles Lamb did in the days when his purchase was not merely a purchase, but nothing short of a victory. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z Charles Lamb tells in his Popular Fallacies of “Bully Dawson kicked by half the town and half the town kicked by Bully Dawson.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z I cannot leave his name without calling attention to the charming little stories of Mrs. Leicester's School—written by Charles Lamb and his sister jointly. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z His journal or autobiography was highly praised by Charles Lamb, Edward Irving, Crabb Robinson, and others. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z It is a way of looking at things characteristic of men like Chaucer and Cervantes and Montaigne and Shakespeare, and Bunyan and Fielding and Addison, Goldsmith, Charles Lamb and Walter Scott. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Like Charles Lamb's solemn Quaker, 'they had been wits in their youth.' Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Now, Charles Lamb, I recall, once confessed that he was moved to enthusiasm by an undertaker's advertisement. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z I love Charles Lamb and his writings so much, that I think everybody else ought to love them. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z And a rising sun, indeed, it was, starting out upon its splendid circuit like the sun in the lines of Charles Lamb, "with all his fires and travelling glories round him." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Just as we naturally speak of the flavor of Charles Lamb, so we speak of the atmosphere of Cervantes or of Fielding. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z There are not many better pastimes for a middle-aged man who does not care for first principles or modern novels than to hunt George Dyer up-and-down Charles Lamb. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Charles Lamb made some selections from Fuller, and had a profound admiration for the “golden works” of the “dear, fine, silly old angel.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z How terrible beyond all description, all measurement with other things, these nightmare fears may be in the case of nervous children, the reminiscences of Charles Lamb and others have told us. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z And it was in defiance of the maunderings of such as these that Charles Lamb wrote much of his essay On the Genius and Character of Hogarth. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z Charles Lamb, plotting and contriving to get an old volume from a bookstall, possibly got more pleasure from his taste than if he had been the possessor of a gigantic library. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Of him of this way of thinking it may be said, as was said of Charles Lamb: "He did not merely love his friends in spite of their errors, he loved them errors and all." Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z He might have been forewarned by the failure of Charles Lamb in a like attempt. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z If I were to relax and allow a single exception it would be in favor of dear Charles Lamb’s portrait in “Fraser’s,” representing him as reading a book by candle light. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z The critics of the time, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, have achieved a permanent place in literature. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Do we not love Charles Lamb for a similar reason? Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Presently Charles Lamb comes for a moment upon the scene. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The plea of confession and avoidance which is here set up for Punch and Judy is much the same as that set up by Charles Lamb for the frolicsome Restoration comedies. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Charles Lamb’s “Specimens of English Dramatic Poets” is of deeper interest. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z You remember Charles Lamb's story about supping with some Scotchmen, and incidentally observing he only wished, to make the joy complete, that Burns were there? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.693Z He seems to have been as little affected by the great intellectual influences of his time as Charles Lamb in England. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z He adds anecdotes of his visit to her family in London, and � propos of babies tells of a thing he had heard Charles Lamb say. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I felt what Charles Lamb describes, a sense of depression at times from the overshadowing of a so much more lofty intellect than my own.”—Letters and Literary Remains, vol. i. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z Genial Charles Lamb wrote an amusing letter to Haydon, the artist, in answer to an invitation to pay him a visit. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Perhaps Charles Lamb’s famous saying, that recitation perverts a beautiful poem, would have been qualified had some poem been read to him with full recognition of its artistic character. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The street-giver, seeking a rule of conduct, may more profitably heed the counsel of Edward Denison than the delicious humor of Charles Lamb. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z Familiar visitors at this time of Haydon in the Marlborough Street studio and of Hunt in the Hampstead cottage were two men of finer gift than either, William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Charles Lamb says that no one ever regarded the first of January with indifference; no one, that is to say, of the new style. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z He seems to have had the same feeling for London that Samuel Johnson and Charles Lamb had: he could not live elsewhere. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z There is a class of English writers to whom the descriptive term essayist is applied, the most illustrious being Addison, Steele, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Matthew Arnold, R. L. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Other accounts of these suppers are to be found in Hazlitt’s On the Conversations of Authors; in the works dealing with Charles Lamb; and in the Cornhill Magazine, November, 1900. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z This attack followed within a few weeks of another almost as stinging contributed anonymously by Charles Lamb. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z And we shall be better convinced of the virtue of this nursery play, if we consider the case of the neglected children of the very poor, so pathetically described by Charles Lamb. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z It was Charles Lamb's Essays, and on the first page was written in a large, firm hand: "In friendly remembrance of a terrible quarrel, Zinka Sterzl." Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z She never can help smiling at the thought of Mrs. Evans's wedding-dress, any more than Charles Lamb's Cheshire cats can help laughing when they think of Cheshire being a County Palatine. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Like Charles Lamb after the oyster pie, we were "all full inside," and a pretty time we had of it. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Charles Lamb and his sister were the most constant of all his visitors. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z A great revival of the essay took place during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and foremost in the history of this movement must always be placed the name of Charles Lamb. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z He traces the unjust depreciation of Massinger in part to Charles Lamb's “unfair judgment.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his Letters not before published with Sketches of some of his Companions. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his letters not before published, with sketches of some of his companions. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z Its ethical and æsthetical meaning is finely exemplified in the contrast between Charles Lamb and George IV., The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z But you recall that Charles Lamb could not reckon directories, scientific treatises, the works of Hume and Gibbon, and generally those "volumes which no gentleman's library should be without" as being books. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Wordsworth had no stancher friend, his poetry had no more delicate critic, than Charles Lamb; and Lamb wrote thus in 1815 to Wordsworth about "Alice Fell" and the assailants of the poem. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z LAMB, Charles and Mary.—Mary and Charles Lamb: Poems, Letters, and Remains: now first collected, with reminiscences and notes. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z This has been amusingly emphasized by an anecdote told of Charles Lamb. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z The leaves are late in appearing, but, like Charles Lamb and his office-hours, they make up for it by an early departure. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z And the telling of the story of the Odyssey by Charles Lamb in his "Adventures of Ulysses" is good to read, but rather difficult before the last year of the grammar grades. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Among them are these grotesque lines, favorites with Charles Lamb: Is it a party in a parlour? The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z Letters of Charles Lamb, with a Sketch of his Life. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z "Did Charles Lamb act a part when he sacrificed the woman he loved and the life he hoped to live in order to give his life to protect his poor mad sister?" The Man Who Rose Again The Professor quoted Dr. Johnson and Charles Lamb, remarking that he understood their taste better than that of those persons who indulge in ill-defined and windy raptures about scenery and the weather. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen He would not, I think, have disgraced Charles Lamb’s friend Captain Burney, who welcomed his guests in the grand manner to the simplest of feasts. Springtime and Other Essays It in turn prefaced the way for Charles Lamb, Hunt, and Sydney Smith. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Verses, with a few others, by Charles Lamb. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z At heart the Bohemian is not really unconventional; he is not nomadic by instinct as is the Vagabond. p. 9Take the case of Charles Lamb. The Vagabond in Literature Following the precept of Charles Lamb, Galvin House had apparently striven to correct the bad impression made through lateness in beginning work by leaving early. Patricia Brent, Spinster He used, like Charles Lamb, to give weekly suppers. Springtime and Other Essays Mention some of their visitors, among them Charles Lamb, the friend of the three Lake Poets. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Among many birthdays of famous men and women four may be chosen: those of Madame de Sévigné, Charles Lamb, Dickens and Mendelssohn. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. We treat comic murders as Charles Lamb treated comic cuckoldries. The Book of This and That The reading of these two authors is recommended—as is also a better and more intimate acquaintance with Charles Lamb. Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt Charles Lamb has eulogized the final scene of this drama. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Sidney Smith, Charles Lamb and others have left many. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Charles Lamb and his friends will make the subject of more than a single meeting. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. I am neither single nor unblessed with offspring, yet, like Charles Lamb, I have had my “dream children.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Hunt’s motto for his Indicator, a publication praised by Charles Lamb, is a cheerful one: “A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sour.” Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt He celebrates his attachment to New York as ecstatically as Charles Lamb's his to London, in a chapter called La Tigresse. Interpreters Poor Charles Lamb once wrote a farce, but as it turned out that the hero of it was Mr. Hogsflesh, good society would have none of it, and straightway it vanished into limbo. The Religious Life of London Charles Lamb said he never greatly cared for the society of what are called good people. About London Charles Lamb’s description of the South Sea House might have been penned for a Government Office. Here and There in London Charles Lamb feebly maintained, that Shakspeare's Plays are unfitted for acting, by being above it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 Charles Lamb describes his old friend, George Dyer, as purchasing a bulky volume of blank verse solely on the ground that there must be some good things in an epic of six thousand lines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Vicar of Bromley Abbots, Staffordshire, and Assistant Librarian in the British Museum, as he was the translator of "Dante," and an intimate friend of Charles Lamb. Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The immortal Charles Lamb on the art of roasting—An oriental luxury of luxuries. Home Pork Making "But indeed," wrote Charles Lamb, "we die many deaths before we die, and I am almost sick when I think that such a hold as I had of you is gone." A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Of these school-days Charles Lamb has given delightful glimpses in the Essays of Elia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Charles Lamb, for example, remarks that the statement that "a good name shows the estimation in which a man is held in the world" is a verbal proposition. Logic, Inductive and Deductive If Charles Lamb had been of Mr. Locker's time and circumstances he might have made its fellow. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) All "the old familiar faces" occasionally come in for a portion of that feeling; and on that account, we are glad that we saw, but for one day and one night, Charles Lamb's. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) You know what beautiful things Charles Lamb wrote. Silver Links In a picturesque succession the old lady who taught Charles Lamb his letters was patted on her curly head by Goldsmith when she was a little child. Oliver Goldsmith Charles Lamb, who was born in Crown Office Row, in his exquisite way has sketched the benchers of the Temple whom he had seen pacing the terrace in his youth. Old and New London Volume I Bernard Barton, an amiable Quaker poet, will probably always be remembered as the friend and correspondent of Charles Lamb; perhaps also as the father-in-law of Edward FitzGerald. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Perhaps the above may elicit from other quarters similar contributions; indeed, any memorial of the friend of Charles Lamb must be precious to the Muse. Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. A republication of Mr. Cottle’s twenty-four books of Alfred, though the old pleasant butt and “jest-book” of his ancient friend Charles Lamb, is said hardly to deserve even so many words of mention. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 In that of gracious writing, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are alone in pure and isolated splendour. Oliver Goldsmith Charles Lamb, speaking of Dekker's share in Massinger's Virgin Martyr, highly eulogises the impecunious poet. Old and New London Volume I The eldest of these, and if not the most vigorous, if very nearly the least prolific, yet the most exquisite and singular in literary genius, was Charles Lamb. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) And in an English test he assured me that Milton wrote Pilgrim’s Progress, and the author of Bacon’s Essays was Charles Lamb. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted If there is a tender and touching story in all the annals of genius, it is surely the life-history of Charles Lamb. Home Life of Great Authors But none of these restrictions or provisos is requisite, or could for a moment be thought of, in reference to Charles Lamb. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Charles Lamb, in his "Elia," has described the South Sea House in his own delightful way. Old and New London Volume I He is a younger and tragic counterpart to Charles Lamb in the intensity with which he has imbibed the Elizabethan spirit, rather from the nightshade of Webster and Tourneur than from the vine of Shakespeare. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) And in a like spirit Charles Lamb, in his well-known essay, complains of the ‘things in books’ clothing’ which, by reason of their inappropriate exteriors, afford so much disappointment to the reader. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects The world admires many of its men of letters,—it loves Charles Lamb. Home Life of Great Authors There is a quiet humour—not of the fantastic kind which, as in Charles Lamb, forces us to admit the possibility of near alliance to over-balance of mind—but counter-balancing, antiseptic, salt. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing One of the pleasantest memories of Fetter Lane is that which connects it with the school-days of that delightful essay-writer, Charles Lamb. Old and New London Volume I Hazlitt tells us in a delightful essay about the whimsical notion of Charles Lamb that he would rather see Sir Thomas Browne than Shakespeare. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The men themselves, from Charles Lamb downwards, have over and over again described their ecstasies—with what joy they have pounced upon some rare edition, and with what reverence they have ever afterwards regarded it. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Poor Charles Lamb stands there, bloodless, fleshless; but we think scarcely the less of gentle Elia as we look upon him, but far less of the cruel perpetrator of the atrocity. Home Life of Great Authors I suppose you know and remember Charles Lamb’s essay on distant correspondents? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Charles Lamb was turned over to this journal from the Morning Post. Old and New London Volume I In a word, they are not tangible enough to endure the change of moral climate involved in such a game as that played by Charles Lamb and his friends. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Charles Lamb indited one of his most pleasant essays upon the ‘Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis.’ Old Roads and New Roads The publication of such comment as this, and Carlyle's mention of Charles Lamb and others, seems to be due entirely to the total depravity of literary executors. Home Life of Great Authors When we read Charles Lamb's essay on "The South Sea House," we read it not so much to look at the deserted and memorable building as to look at Elia looking at it. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews Charles Lamb mentions "saloop" in one of his essays, and says, "Palates otherwise not uninstructed in dietetical elegancies sup it up with avidity." Old and New London Volume I Here also he enjoyed the society and friendship of Coleridge, Southey and especially of Professor Wilson, as in London he had of Charles Lamb and his circle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" His opponent with the singlesticks was a very young gentleman, Mr. Charteris, and the Prince came off second best in the encounter, as he did, afterwards, in some bouts with broadswords with Mr. Charles Lamb. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign The Essay, as we now understand the word, dates from the Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, and Steele and Addison, who may boast a numerous progeny, have in Charles Lamb the noblest of their sons. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Charles Lamb's loving appreciation of his books is known to all readers of the delightful Elia. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed The George Dyer mentioned by Mr. Jay was not the author of "The Fleece," but that eccentric and amiable old scholar sketched by Charles Lamb in "The Essays of Elia." Old and New London Volume I It has also been attributed to Charles Lamb. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Only one or two cuts were given, but the Marquis of Waterford and Lord Alford fought seriously, and in right good earnest, until stopped by the Knight Marshal, Sir Charles Lamb. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign The exquisite literary faculty of Charles Lamb revelled in detecting143 beauties which had been covered with the dust of oblivion during the reign of Pope. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Money, as Charles Lamb, a great despiser of cant, observed, is not dross, but books, pictures, wines, and many pleasant things. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed In 1796 he and Charles Lamb published a volume of poems together. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The hand is not one, to use Charles Lamb's expressive phrase, to be looked at standing on one leg. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Our own genial humorist, Charles Lamb, confesses however to a deep tenderness for Neddy, and dwells with delight on the protection which his thick hide affords against the cruel usuage of man. Bible Romances First Series At one of Charles Lamb's delightful Wednesday evenings Coleridge had, as usual, consumed more than his fair share of time in talking of some "regenerated" orthodoxy. Arrows of Freethought He takes every jocular expression as perfectly serious, being one of those uncomfortable persons in whose society, as Charles Lamb said, you must always speak on oath. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) He was an intimate friend of Charles Lamb and Southey, and with the latter formed a wild scheme for the founding of a "Pantisocratic State" in America, which, however, was soon abandoned. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Charles Lamb was one of the best men that ever lived. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) When we read Charles Lamb’s essay on “The South Sea House,” we read it not so much to look at the deserted and memorable building as to look at Elia looking at it. A Manual of the Art of Fiction One may doubt whether even the extraordinary fantasies of Mark Twain are more successful, judged by the mere vulgar test of concrete results, than the delicate humor of Charles Lamb. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures It seemed—as Charles Lamb said of humorous letters to distant lands—as though eagerness must grow so stale before it reached the summit of this big pear tree. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 Charles Lamb once, while riding in company with a lady, descried a party denuded for swimming a little way off. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. Charles Lamb says finely of Jones, that a single hearty laugh from him “clears the air”—but then it is in a certain state of the atmosphere. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Charles Lamb uses the phrase as a quotation. Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc But we are something other than a nation of mere lovers and would-be imitators of Charles Lamb. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures When a new book came out, Charles Lamb re-read an old one,—an excellent practice and one which has the additional recommendation of economy. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Some essayists, like Johnson, have been as solemn as the true clerical performer, and some have diverged into the humorous with Charles Lamb, or the cynical with Hazlitt. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Well did Charles Lamb suggest that men should say grace—not only over the Christmas festival, but also over the table spread with good books. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Charles Lamb, on the other hand—as we see, for instance, from his essay on the Old Benchers of the Inner Temple—delighted in the Temple and all its ways. Memorials of Old London Volume I People regard Charles Lamb's story of the discovery of roast pig as a most extravagant and impossible fiction; but, really, Professor Galvani comported himself very much in the manner of that great discoverer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 If Charles Lamb and Herbert Spencer had been sent to Lerwick and Bressay to write a report on what they saw, I daresay the difference of their accounts would have astonished every reader. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Like Charles Lamb, he had a stutter which seemed to emphasise and add point to his witticisms. Australian Writers Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his Letters not before published, with Sketches of some of his Companions. Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding Lamb Building, of course, has nothing to do with Charles Lamb. Memorials of Old London Volume I Look, for instance, at the career of Charles Lamb, who now seems to us a writer who must have disarmed opposition, and have been a favorite from the first. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Their filth dominated all other characteristics, and forced upon the memory Charles Lamb's remark to his friend, when he said: "Martin, if dirt was trumps, what a hand you would hold." Due West or Round the World in Ten Months It is a "midnight darling" that Charles Lamb would have exulted in, and perhaps the best as yet produced from a woman's pen. Moods He has been dignified by the criticism of Charles Lamb, and his accomplishment was the composing of epitaphs. Highways and Byways in Surrey Charles Lamb already expressed this delightfully in the essay on the old manor-house. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life He is like Charles Lamb in his power of dropping from quaintness and almost burlesque into the most touching sentiment and emotion. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Bringing very little children into grown-up company led Charles Lamb to propose the health of Herod, King of the Jews! Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Charles Lamb has given us such a scene. A Hundred Years by Post A Jubilee Retrospect Charles Lamb is good, and so is Thackeray, And so’s Jane Austen in her pretty way; Charles Dickens, too, has pleased me quite a lot, As also have both Stevenson and Scott. Cobwebs from a Library Corner The greater part of a century has passed since Charles Lamb's glowing eulogy of him was written, and the terms of that eulogy have never been contested by competent authority. A History of Elizabethan Literature Charles Lamb knew a man who wanted to be a tailor once, but hadn't got the spirit. The Martian I would pile up the whole lot of them along with those books that are no books—biblia-a-biblia—of which Charles Lamb speaks so plaintively. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations I believe Charles Lamb could have told a like, and as true, but sadder story. Spare Hours Once, when he was talking to me about the men of Charles Lamb’s day—The London Magazine set—I asked him what kind of a man was the notorious and infamous Griffiths Wainewright. Old Familiar Faces Charles Lamb has among his admirers more uninteresting people than any great artist has ever had except Thackeray. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Charles Lamb, without any difficulty and without the show of assertiveness, would have maintained it better. Stories of Authors, British and American I think the humour of Charles Lamb wears well; but that is probably because it has a most indisputable flavour of Rabelaisian roguery underlying its whimsical grace. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Who has ever yet tasted the roast pig of reality which came up to the roast pig of Charles Lamb? Spare Hours Not only in Walpole’s case and Gray’s, but also in Charles Lamb’s, we apply the same rules of criticism to the letters as we apply to the published utterances that appeared in the writer’s lifetime. Old Familiar Faces It is, indeed, very curious and interesting, the literary fate of Charles Lamb. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions She and her brother had lived together, alone since their mother's death, and in their mutual devotion have been well compared to Charles Lamb and his sister. Stories of Authors, British and American No one who has ever lived has written more tenderly or beautifully of what Charles Lamb would call "superannuated people." Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Yet he was not only cheerful, he was gay, full of all sorts of fun—genuine fun—and his jokes and queer turns of thought and word were often worthy of Cowper or Charles Lamb. Spare Hours But even at that period it was only a quite exceptional nature like that of Charles Lamb which adequately expressed itself in epistolary form. Old Familiar Faces But Charles Lamb is nothing if not "critical," nothing if not an Epicure, and his manner of dealing with the "commonplace" sharpens rather than blunts the edge of one's taste. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Charles Lamb appeared in the world of letters as "Elia," a fancifully adopted name of an Italian fellow clerk at the South Sea House, where Lamb Charles Lamb served his literary apprenticeship. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Prose abridgers of poetry did not go to work like that in the twelfth-thirteenth century—nor, even in the case of Charles Lamb, have they often done so since. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 See,—in this place Milton lived and wrote; here Franklin abode; here Charles Lamb; from an inn in this street Bishop Hooper went away to die. A Red Wallflower Charles Lamb was so paralyzed, it is said, by Coleridge’s death, that for weeks after that event, he was heard murmuring often to himself, “Coleridge is dead, Coleridge is dead.” Old Familiar Faces And when we come to Death, how true it is, as Charles Lamb says, that none has spoken of Death like Shakespeare! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Charles Lamb, to be sure, declared, "I must look upon him as one of the extraordinary persons of the age," but his full worth was not recognized until Swinburne and Rossetti took up his cause. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) It would be easy to pick from this story alone a sort of nosegay of Hamiltonisms like that from Fuller, which Charles Lamb selected so convincingly that some have thought them simply invented. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 As a genial essayist, he is not unworthy to be ranked with Charles Lamb. Modern British Poetry As for Charles Lamb, he would assert that he should be envied the days spent in an insane asylum. Essay on the Creative Imagination Charles Lamb, who understood him better than anyone�and who loved Plays�does not hesitate to accuse our Stage-Actors of being the worst of all in their misrepresentation. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions They then, like the three Quakers with whom Charles Lamb travelled to Exeter, offered what they thought a reasonable sum. The Life of Gordon, Volume I He was at Charles Lamb's chambers in the Temple when Wordsworth came in, with the new Edinburgh Review in his hand, and fume on his countenance. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Charles Lamb's glittering eyes were strangely dissimilar in color, one being hazel, the other having specks of gray in the iris. Cupology How to Be Entertaining It is a gift that William Shakespeare and James Boswell and Elijah and Charles Lamb and a great many other happy but unimportant people have had in common. The Lost Art of Reading Indeed, he fled from her, and took refuge-sometimes with his sisters, for, like Charles Lamb, Pater was "Conventual" in his taste�and sometimes with the "original" of Marius the Epicurean. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Carlyle's epistles to his wife and brother are among the best in the collection; and Coleridge threw himself with the same ardour into letters to Charles Lamb and to Lord Liverpool. Studies in Literature and History Charles Lamb mentions Richards as his school-fellow at Christ's Hospital, "author of the Aboriginal Britons, the most spirited of the Oxford Prize Poems: a pale, studious Grecian." A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Charles Lamb has written on the hare, in one view of that finely-flavoured beast, as only Elia could write. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. My dear Procter, I have read your biography of Charles Lamb with inexpressible pleasure and interest. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 But Charles Lamb is a very different person from our Goldsmiths and Cowpers and Austens, and their modern representatives. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Charles Lamb's letters are none the worse because he stayed in London and had no time for the beauties of Nature. Studies in Literature and History But the two volumes are all delightful, and I have put them on a shelf where you sit down with Charles Lamb again, with Talfourd's vindication of him hard by. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 I have always myself thought the purpose of this fine piece to be not adequately stated even by Charles Lamb. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Charles Lamb said: "I often shed tears in the motley Strand for fulness of joy at so much life." The Strand District The Fascination of London Charles Lamb occupies a very curious position in English literature and a very enviable one. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions This evocation of mortality led Mr. Wendover to ask her if she had known Charles Lamb; at which she stared for an instant, replying: 'Dear me, no—one didn't meet him.' A London Life and Other Tales Byron, to quote Charles Lamb's apology for Coleridge, was "full of fun," and must not be taken too seriously. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Of course the stress of this mortality fell on the children of the poor, "dragged up rather than brought up," as Charles Lamb expressed it, and perishing unhelped by the way. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Like Charles Lamb's fugitive pigs, they have run up all manner of streets. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Charles Lamb went through the world with many avoidances, but one thing he did not avoid�the innocence of unmitigated foolishness! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions "We are in the last ages of the world," wrote Charles Lamb to Barry Cornwall, "when St. Paul prophesied that women should be 'headstrong, lovers of their own will, having albums.—'" From a Cornish Window A New Edition The book will be very welcome to thousands of admirers and lovers of Charles Lamb. Sara Crewe or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's I like to remind myself of a delightful saying of an Englishman of a past generation, Charles Lamb. In Our First Year of the War Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 Naturally a person must keep alert when he is reading from Charles Lamb, for no one can predict what course the brilliant mind will take. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Professor Wilson smoked steadily, as did Charles Lamb. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce He has helped us to learn more than we knew of Charles Lamb. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Marcia may have Charles Lamb's way of thinking the truth too precious to be wasted upon everybody, for she is sometimes extremely economizing. Floyd Grandon's Honor One thing that I cannot understand in Charles Lamb is his confession, in the essay on "Imperfect Sympathies," that he had a prejudice against Quakers. Days Off And Other Digressions Besides the Tales from Shakespeare, Charles Lamb wrote many beautiful sketches which are known as the Essays of Elia. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Something more than a half-truth is in Charles Lamb’s theory, that the old comedy ‘has no reference whatever to the world that is’: that it is ‘the Utopia of Gallantry’ merely. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] All these old books had Charles Lamb's desideratum of a volume, were "strong backed and neat bound." Customs and Fashions in Old New England Johnson's love of London, however, was of his own sort, quite unlike that of Charles Lamb for instance, or that of such a man as Sir Walter Besant. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Do you remember what Charles Lamb says about roast pig? Days Off And Other Digressions Charles Lamb was rather a short man, with a spare body and legs so small and thin that Thomas Hood once spoke of them as “immaterial legs.” Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Somebody wonders, if he were proposed for White's Club, whether members would blackball him: and Shirley quotes Charles Lamb's remark, 'What splendid hands he'd hold, if only dirt were trumps!' The History of "Punch" Bayard, Sir Philip Sidney, Charles Lamb, St. Paul, or Socrates would have insisted, and stuck to it, that he bit it first. The Perfect Gentleman It was, too, something of a paradox that Byron should be eager to shelter himself under the aegis of Charles Lamb. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry I think that Charles Lamb, despite his imperfect sympathy with Quakers, would have liked this turn to the conversation. Days Off And Other Digressions For forty years this companionship, this sublime devotion continued, even to the time of Charles Lamb’s death in 1834. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Not that the house has now that "desolation something like Balclutha's" which Charles Lamb attributed to it more than half a century ago. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Somewhat stilted and declamatory in speech, Kemble enacted a wide range of characters of Shakespearean tragedy with a dignity that won the admiration of Pitt, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Theodore Hooke is a proof of the former, the late Charles Lamb was of the latter. Olla Podrida He was a life-long friend of Charles Lamb, and in their boyhood they were schoolmates at Christ's Hospital. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I By Charles Lamb Children love to listen to stories about their elders when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Here was Charles Lamb's “Essays of Elia,” inscribed by the author to the woman he loved. Pipefuls On grounds alike of æsthetic criticism and metrical tests, a substantial portion of the play was assigned to Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Coleridge, and Dyce. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Before writing his next volume he should read Charles Lamb's advice "to those who have the framing of advertisements for the apprehension of offenders." The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays Southey, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt were book-collectors of a type which deserves a niche to itself. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Of the author himself Charles Lamb says: "I never slackened in my admiration of him; and I think I shall go to my grave without finding, or expecting to find, such another companion." The Booklover and His Books Charles Lamb moved round London a good deal; did he never write of his experience? Pipefuls Colonel Tom August, of the First Virginia, was the Charles Lamb of Confederate war-wits; genial, quick and ever gay. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Charles Lamb speaks of realities which 'are being acted before us,' and of 'a man who is being strangled.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. A not too respectable copy of Charles Lamb's privately-printed volume, 'The Beauty and the Beast,' was secured for a few pence, its market-value being something like £20. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Charles Lamb, who was an ardent admirer of Heywood's plays, enthusiastically styled him "a prose Shakespeare"; and Wordsworth, with hardly less enthusiasm, declared him to have been "a great man." Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Reversing Charles Lamb's conscientious habit at the India Office, where, having arrived late, he made up for it by going away early, Parliament, having toiled through exceptionally long Session, treats itself to briefest possible recess. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 And yet those who had the insight and the power to restore Shakespeare in all his fulness to English readers were wholly free from this ignorance—conspicuously Charles Lamb and S.T. Personality in Literature One who has not tried it may form an estimate of this kind of pursuit from Charles Lamb's Specimens of the Writings of Fuller. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author When we think of what we owe to them, we may enter into the feelings of Charles Lamb, who "wished to ask a grace before reading more than a grace before meat." Life and Conduct Charles Lamb, on being asked how he distinguished his "ragged veterans" in their tattered and unlettered bindings, answered, "How does a shepherd know his sheep?" The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators To these there were only three serious rivals as letter-writers—William Cowper, Thomas Grey and Charles Lamb; and the first found a final home and a last resting-place in our midst. Immortal Memories See how delicately Charles Lamb could hold the balance in such an essay as Dream Children. Personality in Literature The Triumph of the Whale, by Charles Lamb, and the Enigma on the Letter H, by Harriet Fanshawe, were often included in piratical editions of Byron's Poetical Works. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 We are especially glad to notice that Mr. Ainger holds us out hopes of an edition, uniform with the works, of the letters of Charles Lamb. Obiter Dicta Second Series The great charm of the metre of Wither, which Charles Lamb admired and imitated, lies in its facile combination of what, for the sake of brevity, may be called the iambic and trochaic movements. Milton The "burlesque" statue of the famous actor, David Garrick, with "a farrago of false thoughts and nonsense inscribed below," must ever be associated with Charles Lamb, who thus appropriately described it. Westminster Abbey They dare not betray the "laughable blunder," which, said Charles Lamb, is the test your neighbour giveth you "that he will not betray or over-reach you." Personality in Literature “Charles Lamb’s nosegay of verse,” says Professor Dowden, “may be held by the small hand of a maiden, and there is not in it one flaunting flower.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 He belongs to Charles Lamb’s great race, ‘the men who borrow.’ Obiter Dicta Second Series So you will pass from Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt to the books they loved to praise. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) I am sorry to see a reading which we had cherished without any misgiving as a bit of Shaksperian quaintness, and consecrated by the humour of Gray and Charles Lamb, turned into a clumsy misprint. Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. "I regret that I saw Charles Lamb but once," replied Landor, in answer to many questions asked concerning this delightful man and writer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 He was educated at Christ’s Hospital, in London, where his most famous schoolfellow was Charles Lamb; and from there he went to Jesus College, Cambridge. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 ‘But indeed,’ wrote Charles Lamb, ‘we die many deaths before we die, and I am almost sick when I think that such a hold as I had of you is gone.’ Obiter Dicta Second Series With Charles Lamb at Christ's Hospital the story was a favourite. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Among the good things which attached Charles Lamb to this present life was his love of the delicious juices of meats and fishes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Can you imagine Charles Lamb in the act of reading that book? The Bibliotaph and Other People Two other great writers of prose were Charles Lamb and Walter Savage Landor, each in styles essentially different. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Charles Lamb did both; and the years as they roll do but swell the rich revenues of his praise. Obiter Dicta Second Series Charles Lamb, who tells the story, which is a true one, was himself one of these Bluecoat boys. Amos Huntingdon A schoolmate of Coleridge, at Christ's Hospital, and his friend and correspondent through life, was Charles Lamb, one of the most charming of English essayists. Brief History of English and American Literature Charles Lamb himself could not have looked more radiant or more happy in the sense of possession. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Charles Lamb greatly admired the end of this epitaph. Highways and Byways in Sussex Some of the best scholars of England were educated here; and we remembered particularly Coleridge and our special favorite, Charles Lamb. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Daddy Wordsworth said, indeed, ‘Charles Lamb is a good man if ever good man was’—as I had wished to quote at the End of my Paper, but could not find the printed passage.” Two Suffolk Friends With the exception of Charles Lamb, no man’s letters have endeared his memory to so many readers as have the letters of Edward FitzGerald. Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" Charles Lamb's contributions were principally short, witty paragraphs, which he contributed to any of the papers that would receive them, and for which he received the magnificent remuneration of sixpence each! Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Once, indeed, Lewes was still better off, for she had a theatre, which for some years was under the management of Jack Palmer, of whom Charles Lamb wrote with such gusto. Highways and Byways in Sussex Charles Lamb could not have improved his description of the old hospital at Leicester, where the twelve brethren still wear the badge of the Bear and Ragged Staff. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) You remember how Charles Lamb speaks of his Cousin Bridget's knowledge of English literature. Girls and Women A farmer, in a stage-coach with Charles Lamb, kept boring him to death with questions in the jargon of agriculturists about crops. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Charles Lamb, if he had been clerically disposed, would, I am sure, have written short sermons; and I think that his hearers would have carried away the gist of them clean and clear. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 I should not mention it, but that it is probably the church to which Charles Lamb, bored by Hastings itself, wended his way one day in 1825. Highways and Byways in Sussex Books, illumination of, i, p xxv; Charles Lamb's love of, iv, 140; Turner's opinion of, i, 132. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians A striking instance is mentioned by Charles Lamb of the tyranny of this convention. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 When he had done repeating his truisms, Charles Lamb gravely said: "Then, sir, you are actually prepared to maintain that a thief is not altogether a moral man." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings In all respects—saving the pipes and the ale—he was the very opposite of Charles Lamb. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 His pen-pictures of Mill, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and others, are wonderfully vivid but too often sour in flavour; his sketch of Charles Lamb is an outrage on that generous and kindly soul. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies He pins haughty, poetic, high-sounding labels to his works, and, like Charles Lamb, we sit open-mouthed at concerts trying to fill in his big sonorous frame with a picture. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Charles Lamb, who seems to have said all that is worth saying about the dramatists in the dozen pages or so to which his notes extend, has also expressed his regret. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 Charles Lamb used to say, that he had a great dislike to monkeys, on the principle that "it was not pleasant to look upon one's poor relations." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings It was Charles Lamb who found his married friends too loving in his presence, but let us not go to extremes! Journeys to Bagdad Nothing was further from his intention; no La Bruyère had taken part in the Crusades, any more than any member of Charles Lamb's family had been Pope of Rome. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France But the noble and impassioned devotion of Charles Lamb has been the most powerful help towards keeping alive the memory of the "fantastic great old man." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" He would have been on terms of recognized kinship with Sydney Smith and Charles Lamb. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective A sexton in Salisbury Cathedral was telling Charles Lamb that eight people had dined at the pointed top of the spire; upon which Lamb remarked that they must have been very sharp set. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings The selection from Charles Lamb is an illustration of how humor may save the utterly absurd from being unreadable. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric The impressionable Charles Lamb must have had many such partners besides his sister Mary. The Joyful Heart Boswell's Johnson edited Shakespeare; and Charles Lamb and Goethe and DeQuincey and Coleridge and Taine and Lowell and Carlyle and Emerson have written of him, some of them greatly. A Hero and Some Other Folks In those old times, our old lawyers, if Charles Lamb had known them and should paint them, would make a set of portraits as interesting as his old Benchers of the Inner Temple. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Charles Lamb has with a quaint melancholy depicted the pain of parting from his books, and from the indefinable delights laid up in each dear folio. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 That collapse and humorous confession of futility was much of the force in Charles Lamb and in Stevenson. George Bernard Shaw Charles Lamb was once criticised for speaking disrespectfully of the equator, and a noted divine was severely taken to task for making unkind remarks about hell. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing Charles Lamb's clean hearth or that of the too fastidious modern house robs it of half its comfort and attractiveness. Confessions of Boyhood Even that fine old bachelor, philosopher, and humorist, Charles Lamb, thought that the subject deserved an essay. The Little Tea Book Charles Lamb was long known only as the Elia of the New Monthly. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Cardinal Wolsey regaled off this delicate confection with the Lords of the Star Chamber; and Charles Lamb is reported to have said, "Doubtless, God Almighty could have made a better berry, but He never did." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Charles Lamb was the Richard Jefferies of this group of tendencies, and the current disposition to exaggerate the opposition force, especially among English-speaking peoples, should not bind us to the reality of their strength. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought In this essay he descants on the greatest crime as though it were an accomplishment, and his freakish wit makes this paper as enjoyable as Charles Lamb's essay on the origin of roast pig. Modern English Books of Power I never saw anything like this funeral dirge," says Charles Lamb, "except the ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father in the Tempest. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language Charles Lamb's poem of "The Three Friends, "—Mary, Martha, and Margaret—is an extremely truthful and effective description of female friendship, its fervor, jealousy, estrangement, generosity, and restoration. The Friendships of Women Charles Lamb, pushing this elucidating observation much further, says, "The shapings of our heavens are the modifications of our constitutions." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life "Let's see, Charles Lamb, the writer, was very fond of roast pig, wasn't he?" All Aboard A Story for Girls Of all the English writers of the last century none is so well beloved as Charles Lamb. Modern English Books of Power In these he approached the letters of Charles Lamb nearer than any writer of his day. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter No one ever so finely commingled poetry and humour as Charles Lamb. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Charles Lamb Most of Lamb's earlier poetical productions appeared in conjunction with the work of other poets. Early Reviews of English Poets But I suspect that they had no "children's books," and their eager minds "browzed undisturbed among the wholesome pasturage of English literature," as Charles Lamb expresses it. Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists Charles Lamb's taste was for the writers of the Elizabethan age, and even in his time he found that this taste had become old-fashioned. Modern English Books of Power Charles Lamb, with his native sensitiveness, considered this line to be too terrible for art. Nature Mysticism "This," said Charles Lamb, "is the greatest pleasure I know." Cheerfulness as a Life Power Charles Lamb delivers himself with infinite pain and labour of a silly piece of trifling, every month, in this Magazine, under the signature of Elia. Early Reviews of English Poets Like the exquisite Charles Lamb—if his curious confession was not a literary myth—they have ears, but no ear, though they would hardly be brought to acknowledge the fact so candidly as he did. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 Lucas in seven volumes, to which he added in 1905 The Life of Charles Lamb in two volumes. Modern English Books of Power Montaigne and Charles Lamb are egotists of the Z. class, and the world never wearies reading them: nor are egotists of the X. school absolutely without entertainment. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country It is barely possible that Charles Lamb was right when he declared that no woman married to a genius ever believed her husband to be one. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters He was one of those who loved "the dangerous edge of things," and, as Charles Lamb said, "delighted to dally with interdicted subjects." Among Famous Books From his father Charles Lamb inherited at once his literary leanings and his humour, both heightened to an incalculable degree. Charles Lamb This is practically Charles Lamb’s lament of some thirty years before. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book Could I have visited London thirty years ago, I would rather have spent an hour with Charles Lamb than with any other of its residents. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country "Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved," says Charles Lamb. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future Charles Lamb has asked, "What has Margaret to do with Faust?" and has asserted that she does not belong to the legend at all. Among Famous Books For seven years—from October 1782 until November 1789—Charles Lamb remained at Christ's Hospital, and then, close upon fifteen years of age, returned to his parents in the Temple. Charles Lamb "Charles Lamb's farewell to tobacco," said Coristine wildly:— Brother of Bacchus, later born, The Old World were sure forlorn, Wanting thee. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Then there is Charles Lamb's room in Inner Temple Lane, the hush of a whist table in one corner, the host stuttering puns as he deals the cards; and sitting round about. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country I always like to remind myself of a delightful saying of an Englishman of the past generation, Charles Lamb. President Wilson's Addresses This final conceit greatly tickled the fancy of Charles Lamb, who was perhaps the first of the moderns to rediscover both the rare merits and the curiosities of our author. Andrew Marvell The awful shock had, perhaps, a steadying effect on Charles Lamb. Charles Lamb Probably he thought they heightened effect, much as Charles Lamb spelt plum pudding with a b—“plumb pudding,” because, he said, “it reads fatter and more suetty.” Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland Thinking of these things, I do not wonder at Hazlitt's spleen, at Charles Lamb's punch, at Coleridge's opium. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country "Therefore," said Charles Lamb, "if Shakespeare should enter the room we should rise and greet him uncovered, but kneeling meet the Nazarene." The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service A searchlight has flashed upon all that Charles Lamb said, did, or wrote. Rembrandt How many of us in such a debate to-day would as promptly name Charles Lamb! Charles Lamb “The human species,” Charles Lamb says, “is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.” Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland In 1823 Kean, 'stimulated by Hazlitt's remonstrances and Charles Lamb's essays,' restored the original tragic ending. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth "I have always enjoyed that essay of Charles Lamb's on roast pig, Cradd," answered father as he took a second muffin. The Golden Bird I have heard Kingsley and Charles Lamb described as geniuses, and I have heard them both absolutely denied every sort of literary merit. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Though the dual authorship of the volume is referred to in the preface the publisher put Charles Lamb's name as author of the whole on the title-page of the book. Charles Lamb Not only could he pursue his career there untroubled by fears of arrest, but he exercised among the other "gentlemen gaol-birds" a supremacy, a kind of kingship, such as that to which Charles Lamb referred. Life of Charles Dickens This is the arrogance which places the borrower, as Charles Lamb discovered long ago, among the great ones of the earth, among those whom their brethren serve. Americans and Others Of all the readers of Charles Lamb who have striven to emulate him, Mr. Lucas comes nearest to being worthy of him. A Wanderer in Venice Had a Charles Lamb, a Leigh Hunt, or an Edgar Allan Poe recast these tales, how different would have been their treatment! Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Lamb was first revealed to the reading public as a great letter-writer in Talfourd's "Memorials of Charles Lamb" nearly seventy years ago. Charles Lamb With letters of Charles Lamb ... and Charles Dickens, etc. Life of Charles Dickens After all, who but Charles Lamb ever did receive gifts well? Americans and Others It is outrageous to heap it all upon the pedagogues, as if they were the only apostolical successors of him whom Charles Lamb lauded "the much calumniated good King Herod." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Charles Lamb pictures his sister and himself "with a taste for religion rather than a strong religious habit." Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Thus it was that Leigh Hunt referred to the essays which without doubt stand as the most characteristic of Charles Lamb's contributions to literature. Charles Lamb Observe the difference between this writer and Charles Lamb. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 It is certainly easier, and far more agreeable, to read Charles Lamb's essays than to ask a stranger in which one of them he discovered the author's heterodox views on encyclopædias. Americans and Others To the bachelor list of modern days, which can boast of Charles Lamb and Macaulay, America adds the proud name of Washington Irving, whose early disappointment made him an author. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy And sure I am that no gentle reader can contemplate the fate of Charles Lamb's library without becoming a prey to "Mild-eyed melancholy." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 The subject Charles Lamb professed to take from a Chinese manuscript of his friend Manning's, and there have not been wanting critics who have sought for literary germs from which this essay might have sprung. Charles Lamb Nay, I do not forget that even Charles Lamb was fiercely belabored by his own generation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Charles Lamb said it was no misfortune for a man to have a sulky temper. Americans and Others This painting is fitly supported on one side by a portrait of Milton owned for many years by Charles Lamb, and on the other by a copy of Lely's fine portrait of Cromwell. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 It appeared in Colburn's "New Monthly Magazine," and is, I think, a very pleasant, entertaining paper, worthy of its subject, and not unworthy of the pen of Charles Lamb. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Those books with an asterisk against their date were only in part the work of Charles Lamb. Charles Lamb Concerning Charles Lamb the less you say the better. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Furthermore, the Swedish authoress attracts her readers by a diction unique unto herself, as singular as the English sentences of Charles Lamb. Jerusalem To come upon India House is like stepping back into the world of Charles Lamb. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned The other utterance which is fit to be matched with Shakspere's was written by Charles Lamb. Side Lights Poems by S. T. Coleridge, second edition, to which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd. Charles Lamb But, for all your adoration of Charles Lamb, I dare say he would have liked me a great deal better than he would you. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Coffees and teas were so adulterated that we felt like Charles Lamb, who, in a similar predicament, said, "If this be coffee, give me tea; and if it be tea, give me coffee." T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him In a New England village I entered the main-street department store one afternoon and said to the clerk at the book counter: 'Let me have, please, the "Letters of Charles Lamb".' Best Short Stories The introduction of Admiral Burney's name makes it likely that Hood may have owed his first interest in the story to Charles Lamb. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood In 1797 there was published a new edition of Coleridge's Poems, "to which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd." Charles Lamb I confess that I find the joke about Charles Lamb irritating. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Herbert and Fuller are quaint; Blake is grotesque; Donne and Charles Lamb are willfully quaint, subtle, and paradoxical. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Charles Lamb.—A farmer, by chance a companion in a coach with Charles Lamb, kept boring him to death with questions, in the jargon of agriculturists, about crops. The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection The influence of Charles Lamb may have had something to do with it,—probably not very much. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood But in Charles Lamb it is altogether one; his genius is talent, and his talent is genius, and his heart is as whole and one as his head. Charles Lamb Among such he would not, perhaps, include Dante, Virgil or Charles Lamb. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary "In a New England village I entered the main street department-store one afternoon and said to the clerk at the book-counter: "'Let me have, please, the letters of Charles Lamb.' More Toasts It is Charles Lamb who says "Milton almost requires a solemn service to be played before you enter upon him." English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The other was an invitation to supper in Charles Lamb's own writing, and at the bottom of the page, "Puns at nine." Memories and Anecdotes Charles Lamb was a faithful patron of the pit. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Byron was always before the looking-glass as he wrote; and as for Charles Lamb, do not suppose that he did anything but hide in his clouds of ink. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary It contains biographical sketches of Shakspeare, Pope, Charles Lamb, Goethe, and Schiller, accompanied by numerous notes, which, with the author's acknowledged taste, will give a new interest to these almost familiar subjects. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 "What can be more pleasant," says Charles Lamb, "than the way in which the retired statesman peeps out in his essays, penned in his delightful retreat at Shene?" English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction I agree with Charles Lamb who said he didn't want to be like a potato, all that was best of him under ground. Memories and Anecdotes One of Charles Lamb's most pleasant papers arose from "the casual sight of an old playbill which I picked up the other day; I know not by what chance it was preserved so long." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Carlyle's way of writing about other people, for instance Charles Lamb, Saint Charles, as Thackeray called him, is sometimes unpardonable; and if Froude had suppressed those passages he would have done well. The Life of Froude Charles Lamb’s friend Fell paid a ducat to the organist and half a crown to the blower, and heard as much as he wanted. A Wanderer in Holland Extracts from the plays mentioned may be found in Charles Lamb's "Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare." English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Mr. Webb, like Charles Lamb and the late Mr. Travers, stammered just enough to give piquancy to his conversation. Memories and Anecdotes To Mr. Bensley, the tragedian, so much admired by Charles Lamb, and so little by any other critic, a curious accident is said to have happened. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character A few more omissions might have been made with advantage, especially a brutal passage about Charles Lamb and his sister, which Elia's countless admirers find it hard to forgive. The Life of Froude An unprotected roadway runs on either side of the water, which makes the houses beside these canals no place for Charles Lamb’s friend, George Dyer, to visit in. A Wanderer in Holland He received his education at Christ's Hospital in London, where, among others, he had Charles Lamb as a comrade, and formed with him a friendship which lasted as long as they both lived. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction I had a good many books—not of scientific but of delightful literature, the best works of the best authors—and my books were as shabby as Charles Lamb's library. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 "Quite an opera pit," he said to Charles Lamb, conducting him over the benches of that establishment, described by Lamb as "the last retreat of his every-day waning grandeur." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Some of you may have read Charles Lamb's amusing essay on "Popular Fallacies;" I suppose every one could add to his list from their own experience of life. Stray Thoughts for Girls Fell, however, having none of his friend Charles Lamb’s affection for the friendly traitress, declined it with asperity. A Wanderer in Holland Coleridge once asked Charles Lamb if he had ever heard him preach, referring to the early days when he was a Unitarian preacher. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction I am neither single nor unblessed with offspring, yet, like Charles Lamb, I have had my 'dream-children.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419 Volume 17, New Series, January 10, 1852 In one of his most delightful papers, Charles Lamb has described his first visit to a theatre. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character But not less wretched are those whose homes are without comfort—those of whom Charles Lamb once said, "The homes of the very poor are no homes." Thrift There is a long and beautiful poem, "Le Château du Souvenir," which he fills, not exactly with Charles Lamb's "old familiar faces," but with portraits of his mistresses and of his old self. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 The first word of modern tribute to the tragic genius of Thomas Middleton was not spoken by Charles Lamb. The Age of Shakespeare The world clapped its hands and stamped its feet in honor of Charles Lamb; but what does he say? New Tabernacle Sermons Thus, Charles Lamb's essay on Dream Children begins quite simply, in a calm, narrative manner, enlivened by a certain quippishness concerning the children. Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature It does not appear that Charles Lamb was a garrulous person, and in the familiar experience of daily life we rarely find stutterers to be rapid talkers. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Charles Lamb, in an adjoining room, hearing the commotion, entered quickly and taking the knife from his sister's hand, put his arm about her and tenderly led her away. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women As a letter-writer he does not, I think, stand in the same rank as Horace Walpole and Charles Lamb. The Art of Letters They were from no less a man than Charles Lamb. Shandygaff As an essayist, Dr. Brown belongs to the followers of Addison and Charles Lamb, and he blends humor, pathos, and quiet hopefulness with a grave and earnest dignity. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Charles Lamb has given many delightful glimpses of that schoolboy life in the "Essays of Elia." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Charles Lamb made no outcry, he shed no tears, he spoke no word of reproach. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women They were compounded in him, however, in such proportion as to produce an entirely new mixture—a character hardly less original than Dr. Johnson or Charles Lamb. The Art of Letters Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt were great city ramblers, followed in due course by Dickens, R.L.S., Shandygaff And yet we find that Charles Lamb, in criticising the old actors of the eighteenth century, praises them for the essential unreality of their presentations. The Theory of the Theatre Charles Lamb, who was a schoolmate of his, has sketched the life there in two well-known essays. Selections from Five English Poets Charles Lamb used to study mathematics to subdue his genius, and I'll have to tinge truth with gray in order to keep this little sketch from appearing like a red Ruritania romance. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Many a man can read the Elizabethans with Charles Lamb’s enthusiasm, however, who never could have read them with his own. The Art of Letters Johnson furnished the power of phrase, in which he was as eminent as any Englishman between Shakespeare and Charles Lamb. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 My notion is, that the verses in question form part of a collection of nursery songs and rhymes by Charles Lamb, published many years ago, but now quite out of print. Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 Lucas, prince of anthologists, for the liberal use I have made of his "Life of Charles Lamb." The Bed-Book of Happiness By statistics he proved that the Blue-Coats had attained distinction quite out of ratio to their number, and cited Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb and many others as proof. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Charles Lamb summed up the truth about his genius as well as about his character in that final phrase, “an archangel a little damaged.” The Art of Letters He always reminded me of Charles Lamb's description of George Dyer. Aylwin Charles Lamb, as we read the Essays, seems at times to be one of the most enviable of men, but that is only because he is supremely lovable. The Pleasures of Ignorance "Believe what? why, madam, that Charles Lamb was a backbiter?" The Bed-Book of Happiness "Who is that girl always hanging 'round after you?" asked a tall, handsome boy, called Ajax, of little Charles Lamb. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women One cannot love him as one loves Charles Lamb and men of a deeper and more imaginative tenderness. The Art of Letters The knock, knock, was decidedly impressive, like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, which greatly affected Charles Lamb. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Before leaving the subject, I must notice a remark by Charles Lamb,—the dear, delightful Charley. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Charles Lamb, who is dear to us all, reduced himself to a pitiable state by giving way to outbreaks of alcoholic craving. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour I am now reading Charles Lamb—that is, whenever I get a chance—and I don't believe anybody in these days ever does read the works of that dear old man. The Captain's Toll-Gate In the Last Essays of Elia there is one by Charles Lamb entitled Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Production of Modern Art. Promenades of an Impressionist They are perhaps, discernible in what Mr Irving calls "the sympathetic reflections of Charles Lamb" and the "impressive nonsense that Doctor Johnson talked" about acting. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Charles Lamb, describing it many years since, says:—“Upon a small hill by the side of Skiddaw, in a comfortable house, quite enveloped on all sides by a nest of mountains” dwells Robert Southey. Rides on Railways Of Cranford Lord Houghton wrote, "It is the finest piece of humoristic description that has been added to British literature since Charles Lamb." A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Bunyan, De Foe, or Charles Lamb were to their contemporaries men without style. Emerson and Other Essays Charles Lamb has somewhere declared that a pun loses all its virtues as soon as the momentary quality of the intellectual and social atmosphere in which it was born has changed its character. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Since then I have been a constant reader of Elia, and a most zealous admirer of Charles Lamb the author and Charles Lamb the man. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Charles Lamb remains, of all English prose-writers, the one whose manner is the most beautiful. One Hundred Best Books But if you inspect the long list from which Charles Lamb took his “Specimens,” you will find few British names. Essays Æsthetical Let him take at once Charles Lamb's warning, and try to understand, rather than to judge them. Elizabethan Demonology Barry Cornwall told me that when he and Charles Lamb were once making up a dinner-party together, Charles asked him not to invite a certain lugubrious friend of theirs. Yesterdays with Authors And yet, despite all my love and admiration of Charles Lamb,—nay, rather in consequence of it,—I must blame him of what Mr. Barron Field was please to eulogize him for,—writing so little. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 It is impossible to over-estimate the value of Charles Lamb's philosophy. One Hundred Best Books Charles Lamb once, considering whom of the world's vanished worthies he would rather evoke, singled out Fulke Greville, and also—if our memory is correct—Sir Thomas Browne. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 Charles Lamb, perhaps, might have made it; incidentally, indeed, he has. Books and Characters French and English I know that Charles Lamb and Talfourd thought Hazlitt not only the most brilliant, but the soundest of all critics. Yesterdays with Authors If such a work is ever written, Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge will be honorably mentioned therein. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Miss Angus mentioned this vision as a bore, she being more interested in the stockbroker, who seems to have inherited what was once in the possession of another stockbroker—'the smile of Charles Lamb.' The Making of Religion "I think it was Charles Lamb," replied Lucille, "who once said that school-teachers are uncomfortable people, and, Harry, I would not like to make you uncomfortable by marrying you." Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted Elia, the nom de plume adopted by Charles Lamb in connection with his Essays. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge At the age of seventy-seven Procter was invited to print his recollections of Charles Lamb, and his volume was welcomed in both hemispheres as a pleasant addition to "Eliana." Yesterdays with Authors If I had had one or two loving, enthusiastic admirers of Charles Lamb to enjoy with me the delight of perusing these uncollected Elias, I should have been "all felicity up to the brim." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Perhaps Charles Lamb was all the better for being a slave at the desk for so many years. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Here he must have entertained Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and many others of his literary friends. Somerset NE. of London, has a celebrated Government rifle factory; was for six years the dwelling-place of Charles Lamb. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Talfourd informs us that Forster had become to Charles Lamb as one of his oldest companions, and that Mary also cherished a strong regard for him. Yesterdays with Authors He made a capital book out of the conversation of James Northcote: he could have made a better one out of the conversation of Charles Lamb. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 |
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