The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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Page 83
... present a letter of introduction to Lamb . With no small amount of difficulty he discovered the proper room , which was a large one with " a very lofty writing - desk , separated by a still higher railing from that part of the floor on ...
... present a letter of introduction to Lamb . With no small amount of difficulty he discovered the proper room , which was a large one with " a very lofty writing - desk , separated by a still higher railing from that part of the floor on ...
Page 266
... present Sonnetteer . Lamb's parents were servants to him , and con- trived to scrape together no small fortune out of their " indo- lent and procrastinating " master . Charles was sent to Christ's Hospital , and afterwards put in ...
... present Sonnetteer . Lamb's parents were servants to him , and con- trived to scrape together no small fortune out of their " indo- lent and procrastinating " master . Charles was sent to Christ's Hospital , and afterwards put in ...
Page 277
... present case will have much force with anyone who remembers Charles Lamb's beautiful sonnet addressed to his own name , and ending : " No deed of mine shall shame thee , gentle name ! " W. Had been derived the name he bore - a name 277.
... present case will have much force with anyone who remembers Charles Lamb's beautiful sonnet addressed to his own name , and ending : " No deed of mine shall shame thee , gentle name ! " W. Had been derived the name he bore - a name 277.
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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admiration AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Ayrton Barry Cornwall beauty BECKY BERNARD BARTON called Carlyle character Charles and Mary Charles Lamb charm Christ's Hospital Coleridge Covent Garden cribbage criticism dear delight diddle dinner dream E. V. LUCAS Elia's English essayist Essays of Elia expression eyes face fancy father feel garden genius gentle gentleman George Dyer hand Hazlitt head heart Heaven humour India House Inner Temple Jews John kind Lamb's laugh Leigh Hunt letters literary literature live London Magazine look Mary Lamb memory mind Miss Lamb nature never night once person play poem poet poetry poor prose quaint remember schoolmaster seemed Shakespeare sister smile sonnet soul speak spirit stammering Street sweet talk taste Temple thee things Thomas thou thought verses walk whimsical whist Widford William William Hazlitt words Wordsworth writings wrote