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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION This edition is the same as that in seven large volumes published between 1903 and 1905, except that it has been revised and amended and arranged in more companion
- 459 LETTER 526 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON [No date. ? Dec., 1830.]Dear M. Something like this was what I meant. But on reading it over, I see no great fun or use in it. It will only stuff up and encroach upon the sheet you propose. Do as, and _what_, you pl
- 458 What a beautiful Autumn morning this is, if it was but with me as in times past when the candle of the Lord s.h.i.+ned round me-- I cannot even muster enthusiasm to admire the French heroism.In better times I hope we may some day meet, and discuss an old
- 457 Old Tycho Brahe and modern Herschel Had something in them; but who's Purcel?The devil, with his foot so cloven, For aught I care, may take Beethoven; And, if the bargain does not suit, I'll throw him Weber in to boot!There's not the splitting of a spli
- 456 Hone, however, did not prosper, in spite of his friends, who were not sufficiently numerous to find the requisite capital."Suum Cuique." The boy for whom this epigram was composed was a son of Hessey, the publisher, afterwards Archdeacon Hessey. He was
- 455 Grace Joanna here doth lie: Reader, wonder not that I Ante-date her hour of rest.Can I thwart her wish exprest, Ev'n unseemly though the laugh Jesting with an Epitaph?On her bones the turf lie lightly, And her rise again be brightly!No dark stain be foun
- 454 LETTER 510 CHARLES LAMB TO JAMES GILLMAN [? Early Spring, 1830.]Dear Gillman,--Pray do you, or S.T.C., immediately write to say you have received back the golden works of the dear, fine, silly old angel, which I part from, bleeding, and to say how the Win
- 453 Mr. Murray's propositions. I presume that Murray had, through Ayrton, suggested either the republication of the _Dramatic Specimens_, 1808, in one volume, or in two volumes, with the Garrick Extracts added. The plan came to nothing. Moxon published them
- 452 C. LAMB.LETTER 503 CHARLES LAMB TO SARAH HAZLITT March 4th, 1830.Dear Sarah,--I was meditating to come and see you, but I am unable for the walk. We are both very unwell, and under affliction for poor Emma, who has had a very dangerous brain fever, and is
- 451 Can I cram loves enough to you all in this little O? Excuse particularizing.C.L.LETTER 499 MARY LAMB TO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (_Same letter_) My dear Miss Wordsworth, Charles has left me s.p.a.ce to fill up with my own poor scribble; which I must do as well
- 450 (_? Fragment_) CHARLES LAMB TO JAMES GILLMAN [No date. ? November 29, 1829.]Pray trust me with the "Church History," as well as the "Worthies." A moon shall restore both. Also give me back Him of Aquinum. In return you have the _light of my countenanc
- 449 I do not want Mr. Jameson or Lady Morgan.Enfield Wedn'y ["The Garrick Papers." Lamb refers, I suppose, to the _Private Correspondence of David Garrick_, in some form previous to its publication in 1832."Anne of Geierstein." Scott's novel was publish
- 448 LETTER 488 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON [P.M. June 3, 1829.]Dear B.B.--I am very much grieved indeed for the indisposition of poor Lucy. Your letter found me in domestic troubles. My sister is again taken ill, and I am obliged to remove her out of the h
- 447 n.o.body will be the more justified for your endurance. You won't save the soul of a mouse. 'Tis a pure selfish pleasure.You never was rack'd, was you? I should like an authentic map of those feelings.You seem to have the flying gout.You can scarcely s
- 446 Of our old gentry he appear'd a stem; A magistrate who, while the evil-doer He kept in terror, could respect the poor, And not for every trifle hara.s.s them-- As some, divine and laic, too oft do.This man's a private loss and public too.[Daniel Rogers,
- 445 Procter's poem for Emma Isola's alb.u.m, as we have seen, mentions Isola Bella, the island in Lago de Maggiore. Delos was the floating island which Neptune fixed in order that Latona might rest there and Apollo and Diana be born.Oedipus, who solved the
- 444 Don't trouble yourself about the verses. Take 'em coolly as they come.Any day between this and Midsummer will do. Ten lines the extreme. There is no mystery in my incognita. She has often seen you, though you may not have observed a silent brown girl, w
- 443 [No date. ? January, 1829.]Dear Dyer, My very good friend, and Charles Clarke's father in law, Vincent Novello, wishes to shake hands with you. Make him play you a tune. He is a d.a.m.n'd fine musician, and what is better, a good man and true. He will t
- 442 Yours heartily, C.L.Our joint kindest Loves to A.K. and your Daughter.[Barton's new book was _A New Year's Eve and other Poems_, 1828, dedicated to Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester. This volume contains Barton's "Fireside Quatrains to Char
- 441 And your exquisite taste will prevent your falling into the error of Purcell, who at a pa.s.sage similar to _that_ in my first air, Drops his bow, and stands to hear, directed the first violin thus:-- Here the first violin must drop his _bow_.But, besides
- 440 And now, dear B.B., the Sun s.h.i.+ning out merrily, and the dirty clouds we had yesterday having washd their own faces clean with their own rain, tempts me to wander up Winchmore Hill, or into some of the delightful vicinages of Enfield, which I hope to
- 439 [No date. ? Summer, 1828.]My dear Friends,--My brother and Emma are to send you a partners.h.i.+p letter, but as I have a great dislike to my stupid sc.r.a.p at the f.a.g end of a dull letter, and, as I am left alone, I will say my say first; and in the f
- 438 This suns.h.i.+ne is healing.LETTER 454 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON [P.M. May 3rd, 1828.]Dear M.,--My friend Patmore, author of the "Months," a very pretty publication, [and] of sundry Essays in the "London," "New Monthly," &c., wants to dispose of
- 437 Let me never be forgotten to include in my rememb'ces my good friend and whilom correspondent Master Stephen.How, especially, is Victoria?I try to remember all I used to meet at Shacklewell. The little household, cake-producing, wine-bringing out Emma--t
- 436 [No date. End of 1827.]My dear B.--We are all pretty well again and comfortable, and I take a first opportunity of sending the Adventures of Ulysses, hoping that among us--Homer, Chapman, and _C'o_.--we shall afford you some pleasure.I fear, it is out of
- 435 Best rememb & Yours and theirs truly, C.L.LETTER 440 CHARLES LAMB TO LEIGH HUNT [No date. December, 1827.]Dear H.,--I am here almost in the eleventh week of the longest illness my sister ever had, and no symptoms of amendment. Some had begun, but relapsed
- 434 Dear Hone,--having occasion to write to Clarke I put in a bit to you. I see no Extracts in this N'o. You should have three sets in hand, one long one in particular from Atreus and Thyestes, terribly fine. Don't spare 'em; with fragments, divided as you
- 433 [Moxon did not go to Colburn, but to Hurst & Co. in St. Paul's Churchyard.]LETTER 432 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON [No date. ?Sept. 26, 1827.]Pray, send me the Table Book.Dear M. Our pleasant meeting[s] for some time are suspended. My sister was taken ve
- 432 My dear, and now more so, JOHN-- How that name smacks! what an honest, full, English, and yet withal holy and apostolic sound it bears, above the methodistical priggish Bishoppy name of Timothy, under which I had obscured your merits!What I think of the p
- 431 'Tis a Book kept by modern Young Ladies for show, Of which their plain grandmothers nothing did know.'Tis a medley of sc.r.a.ps, fine verse, and fine prose, And some things not very like either, G.o.d knows.The soft First Effusions of Beaux and of Belle
- 430 I expect a pacquet of ma.n.u.script from you: you promised me the office of negotiating with booksellers, and so forth, for your next work. Is it in good forwardness? or do you grow rich and indolent now? It is not surprising that your Maltese story shoul
- 429 Major b.u.t.terworth has kindly supplied me with a copy of her letter to Mary Lamb which called forth Lamb's reply. It runs thus:-- Kentish Town, 22 July, 1827.My dear Miss Lamb, You have been long at Enfield--I hardly know yet whether you are returned--
- 428 She'd make a good match for anybody (by she, I mean the widow)."If he bring but a _relict_ away, He is happy, nor heard to complain."SHENSTONE.Procter has got a wen growing out at the nape of his neck, which his wife wants him to have cut off; but I th
- 427 LETTER 416 CHARLES LAMB TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON [P.M. June 26, 1827.]Dear H.C. We are at Mrs. Leishman's, Chase, Enfield. Why not come down by the Green Lanes on Sunday? Picquet all day. Pa.s.s the Church, pa.s.s the "Rising Sun," turn sharp round the
- 426 And hence thy fire-side chair appears to me A peaceful throne--which thou wert form'd to fill; Thy children--ministers, who do thy will; And those grand-children, sporting round thy knee, Thy little subjects, looking up to thee, As one who claims their f
- 425 Speght, prefixed to the black letter folio of Chaucer_, 1598.Yours in haste (salt fish waiting), C. LAMB.[Haydon's picture was his "Alexander and Bucephalus." The two Bucks, he tells us in his _Diary_, were the Duke of Devons.h.i.+re and Mr. Agar Ellis
- 424 Dear Robinson,--I called upon you this morning, and found that you were gone to visit a dying friend. I had been upon a like errand. Poor Norris has been lying dying for now almost a week, such is the penalty we pay for having enjoyed a strong const.i.tut
- 423 "A pleasant party." Reynolds, the dramatist, would be Frederic Reynolds (1764-1841); Bloxam we have just met; and Wyat of the Wells was a comic singer and utility actor at Sadler's Wells.Canon Ainger remarks that as a matter of fact Dibdin was a religi
- 422 He lost three pall-bearers their livelyhood, Only with simp'ring at his lively mood: Provided that they fresh and neat came, All jests were fish that to his net came.He'd banter Apostolic castings, As you jeer fishermen at Hastings.When the fly bit, _li
- 421 [Ill.u.s.tration: "Very deaf indeed."]"Unmeaning joy around appears..." I have not found this.]LETTER 395 CHARLES LAMB TO S.T. COLERIDGE June 1st, 1826.Dear Coleridge,--If I know myself, n.o.body more detests the display of personal vanity which is im
- 420 "Somebody's insipid wife." In the Popular Fallacy "That You Must Love Me and Love My Dog," in the February number, Lamb had spoken of Honorius'"vapid wife."Barton and his daughter visited Lamb at Colebrooke Cottage somewhen about this time. Mrs. F
- 419 LETTER 386 CHARLES LAMB TO CHARLES OLLIER Colebrook Cottage, Colebrook Row, Tuesday [early 1826].Dear Ollier,--I send you two more proverbs, which will be the last of this batch, unless I send you one more by the post on THURSDAY; none will come after tha
- 418 [P.M. Sept. 9, 1825.]My dear Allsop--We are exceedingly grieved for your loss. When your note came, my sister went to Pall Mall, to find you, and saw Mrs. L. and was a little comforted to find Mrs. A. had returned to Enfield before the distresful event. I
- 417 [Aitken was an Edinburgh bookseller who edited _The Cabinet; or, The Selected Beauties of Literature_, 1824, 1825 and 1831. The particular interest of the letter is that it shows Lamb to have wanted to publish _Rosamund Gray_ a third time in his life. Hit
- 416 CHARLES LAMB TO S.T. COLERIDGE [P.M. July 2, 1825.]Dear C.--We are going off to Enfield, to Allsop's, for a day or 2, with some intention of succeeding them in their lodging for a time, for this d.a.m.n'd nervous Fever (vide Lond. Mag. for July) indispo
- 415 Love and recollects to all the Wms. Doras, Maries round your Wrekin.Mary is capitally well.Do write to Sir G.B. for I am shyish of applying to him.[Coleridge had been appointed to one of the ten Royal a.s.sociates.h.i.+ps of the newly chartered Royal Soci
- 414 I was set free on Tuesday in last week at 4 o'Clock.I came home for ever!I have been describing my feelings as well as I can to Wordsw'th. in a long letter, and don't care to repeat. Take it briefly that for a few days I was painfully oppressed by so m
- 413 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON [P.M. March 23, 1825.]Wednesday.Dear B.B.--I have had no impulse to write, or attend to any single object but myself, for weeks past. My single self. I by myself I. I am sick of hope deferred. The grand wheel is in agitation
- 412 LETTER 363 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON [Dated at end: 10 February, 1825.]Dear B.B.--I am vexed that ugly paper should have offended. I kept it as clear from objectionable phrases as possible, and it was Hessey's fault, and my weakness, that it did not
- 411 E.I.H.11 Jan. 25.When I saw the Chessiad advertised by C.D. the Younger, I hoped it might be yours. What t.i.tle is left for you-- Charles Dibdin _the Younger, Junior_.O No, you are Timothy.[Charles Dibdin the Younger wrote a mock-heroic poem, "The Chess
- 410 Well, Byron is gone, and ------ is now the best poet in England. Fill up the gap to your fancy. Barry Cornwall has at last carried the pretty A.S. They are just in the treacle-moon. Hope it won't clog his wings--gaum we used to say at school.Mary, my sis
- 409 I do not know what news to send you. You will have heard of Alsager's death, and your Son John's success in the Lottery. I say he is a wise man, if he leaves off while he is well. The weather is wet to weariness, but Mary goes puddling about a-shopping
- 408 They are called _adders_, tell your father, because two and two of them together make four.]LETTER 351 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON [P.M. August 17, 1824.]Dear B.B.--I congratulate you on getting a house over your head. I find the comfort of it I am sur
- 407 There is glory to me in thy Name, Meek follower of Bethlehem's Child, More touching by far than the splendour of Fame With which the vain world is beguil'd, and "A Memorial of James Nayler." The following "Sonnet to Elia," from the _London Magazine_
- 406 RELIGIO TREMULI OR TREMEBUNDI There is Religio-Medici and Laici.--But perhaps the volume is not quite Quakerish enough or exclusively for it--but your own VIGILS is perhaps the Best. While I have s.p.a.ce, let me congratulate with you the return of Spring
- 405 Keep your good spirits up, dear BB--mine will return--They are at present in abeyance. But I am rather lethargic than miserable. I don't know but a good horse whip would be more beneficial to me than Physic.My head, without aching, will teach yours to ac
- 404 [Again I do not identify the kind little poem. It may have been a trifle enclosed in a letter, which Barton did not print and Lamb destroyed.]LETTER 337 CHARLES LAMB TO W. HARRISON AINSWORTH India-House, 9th Dec., 1823.(If I had time I would go over this
- 403 ["_Sir_ (as I say to Southey)." Elia's Letter to Southey in the London Magazine began thus.]LETTER 334 CHARLES LAMB TO SARAH HAZLITT [No date. Early November, 1823.]Dear Mrs. H.,--Sitting down to write a letter is such a painful operation to Mary, that
- 402 I rejoyce that you forgive my long silence. I continue to estimate my own-roof comforts highly. How could I remain all my life a lodger! My garden thrives (I am told) tho' I have yet reaped nothing but some tiny sallad, and withered carrots. But a garden
- 401 ["Your kind sonnet." Barton's well-known sonnet to Elia (quoted below) had been printed in the _London Magazine_ long before--in the previous February. I do not identify this one among his writings."I have a Cottage." This cottage still stands (1912)
- 400 Hastings, at Mrs. Gibbs, York Cottage, Priory, No. 4. [June 18, 1823.]My dear Friend,--Day after day has pa.s.sed away, and my brother has said, "I will write to Mrs. [? Mr.] Norris to-morrow," and therefore I am resolved to write to _Mrs. Norris_ to-da
- 399 LETTER 317 (_Fragment_) CHARLES LAMB TO MISS HUTCHINSON (?) A propos of birds--the other day at a large dinner, being call'd upon for a toast, I gave, as the best toast I knew, "Wood-c.o.c.k toast," which was drunk with 3 cheers.Yours affect'y C. LAMB
- 398 LETTER 314 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON [P.M. 5 April 1823.]Dear Sir--You must think me ill mannered not to have replied to your first letter sooner, but I have an ugly habit of aversion from letter writing, which makes me an unworthy correspondent. I h
- 397 Are there more Last words of him? Pray, how may I venture to return it to Mr. Shewell at Ipswich? I fear to send such a Treasure by a Stage Coach. Not that I am afraid of the Coachman or the Guard _reading_ it.But it might be lost. Can you put me in a way
- 396 Yours truly C. LAMB.8 Jan. '23.[This note is sent to me by Mr. G. Dunlop of Kilmarnock. It is the only note to Aders, a friend of Crabb Robinson, to whose house Lamb often went for talk and whist. Aders had a fine collection of German pictures.See the ve
- 395 "Cleverness is the bane." See Lamb's little article on "The New Acting"in Vol. I.The Blue Girl seems to refer to the lady mentioned at the end of the first letter to Payne.Angelica is in Congreve's "Love for Love"; Millamant in his "Way of the Wo
- 394 LETTER 302 CHARLES LAMB TO WALTER WILSON E.I.H. 16 dec. 22.Dear Wilson _Lightening_ I was going to call you-- You must have thought me negligent in not answering your letter sooner.But I have a habit of never writing letters, but at the office--'tis so m
- 393 LETTER 299 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN HOWARD PAYNE Wednesday, 13 November, '22.Dear P.--Owing to the inconvenience of having two lodgings, I did not get your letter quite so soon as I should. The India House is my proper address, where I am sure for the fore p
- 392 Dear Haydon, Poor G.o.dwin has been turned out of his house and business in Skinner Street, and if he does not pay two years' arrears of rent, he will have the whole stock, furniture, &c., of his new house (in the Strand) seized when term begins. We are
- 391 Our joint hearty remembrances to both of you. Yours as ever, C. LAMB.[Frank was Francis John Field, Barron Field's brother, in the India House.Sh.e.l.ley was drowned on July 8, 1822.Talma was Francois Joseph Talma (1763-1826), the great French tragedian.
- 390 LETTER 289 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN CLARE India House, 31 Aug., 1822.Dear Clare--I thank you heartily for your present. I am an inveterate old Londoner, but while I am among your choice collections, I seem to be native to them, and free of the country. The qu
- 389 C. LAMB.No hurry at all for Tourneur.Tuesday 7 May '22.[William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), afterwards known as a novelist, was then articled to a Manchester solicitor, but had begun his literary career. The book to which Lamb refers was called _The
- 388 [Oct. 27, 1821.]I Come, Grimalkin! Dalston, near Hackney, 27th Oct'r. One thousand 8 hundred and twenty one years and a wee-bit since you and I were redeemed. I doubt if _you_ are done properly yet.[A further letter to Ayrton, dated from Dalston, October
- 387 Those notes of Bryant have caused the greatest disorder in my brain-pan.Well, I will not flatter when I say that we have had two or three long evening's _good reading_ out of your kind present.I will say nothing of the tenderest parts in your own little
- 386 I am sorry the London Magazine is going to be given up.[I a.s.sume the date of this note to be summer, 1821, because it was then that Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, the _London Magazine's_ first publishers, gave it up. The reason was the death of John Scott, th
- 385 _Midnight_."G.o.d bless you, dear Charles Lamb, I am dying; I feel I have not many weeks left."[Master Mathew is in Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humour."Lamb's "Beaumont and Fletcher" is in the British Museum. The note quoted by Lamb is not ther
- 384 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.Vol. 6.by Charles and Mary Lamb.THE LETTERS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB 1821-1834 LETTER 264 CHARLES LAMB TO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH [P.M. January 8, 1821.]Mary perfectly approves of the appropriat'n of the _feathers_, and wish
- 383 [Footnote 11: Descriptive Poems, such as Leusden hill, by Thomas Crowe; and the Malvern hills, by Joseph Cottle.][Footnote 12: Roscoe's Reign of Leo de Medici is interspersed with poetry. Roscoe has also translated, THE NURSE, a poem, from the Italian of
- 382 EPODE II The Voice had ceas'd, the Phantoms fled, Yet still I gasp'd and reel'd with dread.And even when the dream of night Renews the vision to my sight, Cold sweat-damps gather on my limbs, My Ears throb hot, my eye-b.a.l.l.s start, My Brain with hor
- 381 "You shall soon see." Lamb's first reference to the _Elia_ essays, alluding here to "The South-Sea House."Here should come a letter from Lamb to Hazlitt. Lamb says that his sister is ill again and that the last thing she read was Hazlitt's "Thursda
- 380 I have been in my time a great epistolary scribbler; but the pa.s.sion, and with it the facility, at length wears out; and it must be pumped up again by the heavy machinery of duty or grat.i.tude, when it should run free.I have read your "Fall of Cambria
- 379 In the contour of scull certainly I discern something paternal. But whether in all respects the future man shall transcend his father's fame, Time the trier of geniuses must decide. Be it p.r.o.nounced peremptorily at present, that w.i.l.l.y is a well-ma
- 378 CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS HOLCROFT, JR.[No date. Autumn, 1819.]Dear Tom, Do not come to us on Thursday, for we are moved into country lodgings, tho' I am still at the India house in the mornings. See Marshall and Captain Betham _as soon as ever you can_. I
- 377 To Miss Kelly You are not, Kelly, of the common strain, That stoop their pride and female honour down To please that many-headed beast _the town_, And vend their lavish smiles and tricks for gain; By fortune thrown amid the actors' train, You keep your n
- 376 LETTER 248 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [P.M. June 7, 1819.]My dear Wordsworth, you cannot imagine how proud we are here of the DEDICATION. We read it twice for once that we do the poem--I mean all through--yet Benjamin is no common favorite--there
- 375 LETTER 246 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [_This letter is written in black and red ink, changing with each line._][P.M. April 26, 1819.]Dear Wordsworth, I received a copy of Peter Bell a week ago, and I hope the author will not be offended if I say I
- 374 "Christabel's father."Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death.Part II., lines 1 and 2."W. H. goes on lecturing." Hazlitt was delivering a course of lectures on the English poets at the Surrey Inst.i.tution."'Gentleman'
- 373 CHARLES LAMB TO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (_Same letter._) Dear Miss Wordsworth, Here we are, transplanted from our native soil. I thought we never could have been torn up from the Temple. Indeed it was an ugly wrench, but like a tooth, now 'tis out and I am ea
- 372 CHARLES LAMB TO BARRON FIELD Aug. 31st, 1817.My dear Barren,--The bearer of this letter so far across the seas is Mr.Lawrey, who comes out to you as a missionary, and whom I have been strongly importuned to recommend to you as a most worthy creature by Mr
- 371 You ask how Coleridge maintains himself. I know no more than you do.Strange to say, I have seen him but once since he has been at Highgate, and then I met him in the street. I have just been reading your kind letter over again and find you had some doubt
- 370 N.B. Nothing said above to the contrary but that I hold the personal presence of the two mentioned potent spirits at a rate as high as any, but I pay dearer, what amuses others robs me of myself, my mind is positively discharged into their greater current
- 369 Dear old friend and absentee,--This is Christmas-day 1815 with us; what it may be with you I don't know, the 12th of June next year perhaps; and if it should be the consecrated season with you, I don't see how you can keep it. You have no turkeys; you w
- 368 Coleridge's literary plans were destined to change. The _Biographia Literaria_ was published alone in 1817, and _Sibylline Leaves_ alone later in the same year.--"Remorse" had been acted at Calne in June for the second time, a previous visit having bee
- 367 LETTER 220 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [P.M. August 9, 1815.]9th Aug. 1815.Dear Wordsworth, We acknowlege with pride the receit of both your hand writings, and desire to be ever had in kindly remembrance by you both and by Dorothy. Miss Hutchinson
- 366 Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), the lawyer and law reformer, was the great opponent of capital punishment for small offences.In the preface to the 1802 edition of _Lyrical Ballads_, etc., Wordsworth had quoted Dr. Johnson's prosaic lines:-- I put my hat
- 365 "Those scoundrels." Princ.i.p.ally the critic of the _Edinburgh_, Jeffrey, but Wordsworth's a.s.sailants generally."That subst.i.tution of a sh.e.l.l." In the original draft of "The Blind Highland Boy" the adventurous voyage was made in A Household
- 364 Dr Sargus--This is to give you notice that I have parted with the Cottage to Mr. Grig Jun'r. to whom you will pay rent from Michaelmas last. The rent that was due at Michaelmas I do not wish you to pay me. I forgive it you as you may have been at some ex
- 363 Your sister Ann will tell you that your friend Louisa is going to France. Miss Skepper is out of town, Mrs. Reynolds desires to be remembered to you, and so does my neighbour Mrs. Norris, who was your doctress when you were unwell, her three little childr
- 362 26th August, 1814.Let the hungry soul rejoice: there is corn in Egypt. Whatever thou hast been told to the contrary by designing friends, who perhaps inquired carelessly, or did not inquire at all, in hope of saving their money, there is a stock of "Remo
- 361 LETTER 205 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [Dated at end: August 9, 1814.]Dear Wordsworth, I cannot tell you how pleased I was at the receit of the great Armful of Poetry which you have sent me, and to get it before the rest of the world too! I have go
- 360 Yours truly, M. LAMB.LETTER 201 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM HAZLITT (_Added to same letter_) Dear Hazlitt, I cannot help accompanying my sister's congratulations to Sarah with some of my own to you on this happy occasion of a man child being born-- Delighted