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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
- 59 _Examiner_, July 4 and 5, 1819. Signed ****. Richard Brome's "Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars," was first acted in 1641, and continually revived since then, although it is now no longer seen. Indeed our opportunities are few to-day of se
- 58 Signed 'J. R. S.' and dated 'London, 1839'."Gutch himself prepared a life of Wither, but it was not printed in this edition and is still unpublished. The amusing feature of the edition is that Nott, sometimes with slight and deter
- 57 Page 204, line 2. _Envious Junos._ Lucina, at Juno's bidding, sat cross-legged before Alcmena to prolong her travail. Sir Thomas Browne in his _Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or, Enquiry into Vulgar Errors_, Book V., speaks of the posture as "veneficiou
- 56 Lamb's phrase, "Mr. Shoemaker Gifford," had reason for its existence.William Gifford (1756-1826) was apprenticed to a shoemaker in 1772. Lamb later repaid some of his debt in the sonnet "St. Crispin to Mr.Gifford," which appeared
- 55 Pope's _Moral Essays_, Ep. I., 87-88.It has been held that Pope called Charron more sage because he somewhat mitigated the excessive fatalism (Pyrrhonism) of Montaigne.Page 179. IV.--[A SYLVAN SURPRISE.]_The Examiner_, September 12, 1813. Reprinted i
- 54 Later, this intention was somewhat modified, with the purpose of benefiting rather the reduced or embarra.s.sed parents than the very poor.The London history of the school is now ended. The boys have gone to Suss.e.x, where, near Horsham, the new building
- 53 Page 153, line 12. _As Solomon says_. Defoe seems to be remembering Proverbs XXII. 7, and possibly Isaiah XXIV. 2.Sixteen years later, in 1827, William Hone reprinted "The Good Clerk" in his _Table Book_, I., columns 562-567. The first half was
- 52 _Cade._ Away with him, I say! hang him with his pen and ink-horn about his neck."II. Henry VI.," Act IV., Scene 2, lines 109-117.Page 101, line 7 from foot. "_The Vindictive Man_." This was the comedy by Thomas Holcroft, Lamb's fr
- 51 _Abhor._ Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too._Pom._ Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are executed, and sleep afterwards._Abhor._ Go in to him, and fetch him out._Pom._ He is coming, sir, he is coming; I hear his straw rustle._Abhor._ Is th
- 50 Shakespear has not made Richard so black a Monster as is supposed.Where-ever he is monstrous, it was to conform to vulgar opinion.But he is generally a Man. Read his most exquisite address to the Widowed Queen to court her daughter for him--the topics of
- 49 NOTES The prose of Lamb's _Works_, 1818, was dedicated to Martin Burney in the following sonnet:-- TO MARTIN CHARLES BURNEY, ESQ.Forgive me, BURNEY, if to thee these late And hasty products of a critic pen, Thyself no common judge of books and men, I
- 48 COMIC TALES, ETC., BY C. DIBDIN THE YOUNGER (1825) In this age of hyper-poetic plights, and talent in a frenzy aping genius, it is consolatory to see a little volume of verse in the good old sober manner of Queen Ann's days, when verse walked high, r
- 47 Leucippus, having slain the villain, was at leisure to discover, in the features of his poor servant, the countenance of his devoted sister-in-law! Through solitary and dangerous ways she had sought him in that disguise; and, finding him, seems to have re
- 46 THE DEATH OF COLERIDGE IN THE ALb.u.m OF MR. KEYMER (1834) When I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world,--that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I cou
- 45 'Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will
- 44 Canticulae interea narraverat argumentum Altera Sirenum, infidi perjuria nautae, Deceptamque dolo nympham; tum flebile carmen Flebilibus movit numeris, quos altera versu Alterno excepit: patulis stant rictibus omnes: Dextram ille acclinat, laevam ille att
- 43 [61] It is Neptune who predicts this.Allusions to the same personage were at that time rife in innumerable ballads, under the notion of a _sweet William_; but the ballads are obliterated. The song of "Sweet William Taylor, walking with his lady gay&q
- 42 Witness his hand, CHARLES LAMB.10th Apr 1827.[59] To any Body--Please to fill up these blanks.SHAKSPEARE'S IMPROVERS (1828) _To the Editor of The Spectator_ Sir,--Partaking in your indignation at the sickly stuff interpolated by Tate in the genuine p
- 41 VIII.--REMINISCENCE OF SIR JEFFERY DUNSTAN (1826) _To the Editor of the Every-Day Book_ To your account of sir Jeffery Dunstan in columns 829-30 (where, by an unfortunate Erratum the effigies of _two Sir Jefferys_ appear, when the uppermost figure is clea
- 40 [56] Fletcher in the "Faithful Shepherdess."--The Satyr offers to Clorin, --grapes whose l.u.s.ty blood Is the learned Poet's good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus; nuts more brown Than the _squirrels' teeth_ that crack
- 39 DEAR SIR, I read your account of this unfortunate Being, and his forlorn piece of self-history, with that smile of half-interest which the Annals of Insignificance excite, till I came to where he says "I was bound apprentice to Mr. William Bird, an e
- 38 All that is descriptive here is excellent. It seems to us next in merit to some of Cibber's dramatic comic portraitures, Joe, the absolute Joe, lives again in every line. We have just set our mark X against two puns to exemplify our foregoing remarks
- 37 Among his papers were found the following "Reflections," which we have obtained by favour of our friend Elia, who knew him well, and had heard him describe the train of his feelings upon that trying occasion almost in the words of the MS. Elia s
- 36 It did not suit the public to laugh with their old servant any longer, Sir. [Here some moisture has blotted a sentence or two.] But I can play Polonius still, Sir; I can, I can.Your servant, Sir, JOSEPH MUNDEN.THE "LEPUS" PAPERS (1825) I.--MANY
- 35 Some horns I observed beautifully taper, smooth, and (as it were) flowering. These I understand were the portions brought by handsome women to their spouses; and I pitied the rough, homely, unsightly deformities on the brows of others, who had been deceiv
- 34 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF MR. LISTON (1825) The subject of our Memoir is lineally descended from Johan De L'Estonne (see Doomesday Book, where he is so written) who came in with the Conqueror, and had lands awarded him at Lupton Magna, in Kent. His part
- 33 While Fancy beholds these celestial appropriations, Reason, no less pleased, discerns the mighty benefit which so complete a renovation must produce below. Let the most determined foe to corruption, the most thorough-paced redresser of abuses, try to conc
- 32 In more than one place, if I mistake not, you have been pleased to compliment me at the expence of my companions. I cannot accept your compliment at such a price. The upbraiding a man's poverty naturally makes him look about him, to see whether he be
- 31 This lover of truth never uttered a truer speech. Give me a lie wth a spirit in it.Air, earth, and ocean, smile immense.---- _Scott_ The bombastic "immense smile of air, &c.," better omitted._Ritson_ Qute Miltonic--"enormous bliss"--an
- 30 _Scott_ Our author's language, in this place, is very defective in correctness.After mentioning the general privation of the "bloomy flush of life,"the exceptionary "all but" includes, as part of that "bloomy flush," an
- 29 DENHAM'S COOPER'S HILL The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear, That, had the self-enamour'd youth gaz'd here, So fatally deceived he had not been, While he the bottom, not his face had seen._Scott_ The last two lines have more m
- 28 Dear Sir,--I send you a bantering Epistle to an Old Gentleman whose Education is supposed to have been Neglected. Of course, it was _suggested_ by some Letters of your admirable Opium-Eater; the discontinuance of which has caused so much regret to myself
- 27 "How long is it ago? (quod he)."By my faith (quod I) about twenty-one years."Tus.h.!.+ (quod he), this is a worthy miracle!"In good faith (quod I), never wist I that any man could tell that he had any other beginning. And methinketh th
- 26 For howso'er anomalous, Thou yet art not incongruous, Repugnant or preposterous.Better-proportion'd animal, More graceful or ethereal, Was never follow'd by the hound, With fifty steps to thy one bound.Thou canst not be amended: no; Be as t
- 25 "Oh! I am setting on a nest of the most unfledged cuckows that ever brooded under the wing of hawk. Thou must know, Hal, I had note of a good hale recruit or two in this neighbourhood. In other shape came I not; look to it, Master Shallow, that in ot
- 24 The _Leporello_ of the Olympic Theatre is not one of the most refined order, but we can bear with an English blackguard better than with the hard Italian. But _Giovanni_--free, fine, frank-spirited, single-hearted creature, turning all the mischief into f
- 23 To make a man's home so desirable a place as to preclude his having a wish to pa.s.s his leisure hours at any fireside in preference to his own, I should humbly take to be the sum and substance of woman's domestic ambition. I would appeal to our
- 22 If from living among simple mountaineers, from a daily intercourse with them, not upon the footing of a patron, but in the character of an equal, he has detected, or imagines that he has detected, through the cloudy medium of their unlettered discourse, t
- 21 The volume before us, as we learn from the Preface, is "a detached portion of an unfinished poem, containing views of man, nature, and society;" to be called the Recluse, as having for its princ.i.p.al subject the "sensations and opinions o
- 20 (1813) Time and place give every thing its propriety. Strolling one day in the Twickenham meadows, I was struck with the appearance of something dusky upon the gra.s.s, which my eye could not immediately reduce into a shape.Going nearer, I discovered the
- 19 ELIA.RECOLLECTIONS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL (1813. TEXT OF 1818) To comfort the desponding parent with the thought that, without diminis.h.i.+ng the stock which is imperiously demanded to furnish the more pressing and homely wants of our nature, he has d
- 18 MeMOIR OF ROBERT LLOYD (1811) ----Also, in October, in his 33d year, Mr. Robert Lloyd, third son of Charles Lloyd. To dilate in many words upon his character, would be to violate the modest regard due to his memory, who in his lifetime shrunk so anxiously
- 17 The cloth is usually spread some half-hour before the final rubber is decided, whence they adjourn to sup upon what may emphatically be called _nothing_. A sliver of ham, purposely contrived to be transparent to shew the china-dish through it, neighbourin
- 16 _Good Parent._--"For his love, therein, like a well drawn picture, he eyes all his children alike."_Deformity in Children._--"This partiality is tyranny, when parents despise those that are deformed; _enough to break those whom G.o.d had bo
- 15 I am almost disposed to deny to Garrick the merit of being an admirer of Shakspeare. A true lover of his excellencies he certainly was not; for would any true lover of them have admitted into his matchless scenes such ribald trash as Tate and Cibber, and
- 14 "BURIAL SOCIETY "A favourable opportunity now offers to any person, of either s.e.x, who would wish to be buried in a genteel manner, by paying one s.h.i.+lling entrance, and two-pence per week for the benefit of the stock. Members to be free in
- 13 But that larger half of Hogarth's works which were painted more for entertainment than instruction (though such was the suggestiveness of his mind, that there is always something to be learnt from them) his humourous scenes,--are they such as merely
- 12 The concluding scene in the _Rake's Progress_ is perhaps superior to the last scenes of _Timon_. If we seek for something of kindred excellence in poetry, it must be in the scenes of Lear's beginning madness, where the King and the Fool and the
- 11 Suffer me, Mr. Editor, before I quit the subject, to say a word or two respecting the minister of justice in this country; in plain words, I mean the hangman. It has always appeared to me that, in the mode of inflicting capital punishments with us, there
- 10 PHILIP Ma.s.sINGER.--THOMAS DECKER _The Virgin Martyr._--This play has some beauties of so very high an order, that with all my respect for Ma.s.singer, I do not think he had poetical enthusiasm capable of rising up to them. His a.s.sociate Decker, who wr
- 9 WILLIAM ROWLEY _A New Wonder; a Woman Never Vext._--The old play-writers are distinguished by an honest boldness of exhibition, they shew every thing without being ashamed. If a reverse in fortune is to be exhibited, they fairly bring us to the prison-gra
- 8 Then came the august _Fourth_ of _June_, crowned with such a crown as British Monarchs commonly wear, leading into the presence the venerable _Nineteenth_ of _May_--_Apollo_ welcomed the royal pair, and placed them nearest to himself, and welcomed their n
- 7 He was present with me at a scene--a _death-bed scene_--I shudder when I do but think of it.CHAPTER XIII I was sent for the other morning to the a.s.sistance of a gentleman, who had been wounded in a duel,--and his wounds by unskilful treatment had been b
- 6 Since my father's death our family have resided in London. I am in practice as a surgeon there. My mother died two years after we left Widford.A month or two ago I had been busying myself in drawing up the above narrative, intending to make it public
- 5 CHAPTER VIII They had but four rooms in the cottage. Margaret slept in the biggest room up stairs, and her grandaughter in a kind of closet adjoining, where she could be within hearing, if her grandmother should call her in the night.The girl was often di
- 4 "An enemy hath done this," I have heard him say--and at such times my mother would speak to him so soothingly of forgiveness, and long-suffering, and the bearing of injuries with patience; would heal all his wounds with so gentle a touch;--I hav
- 3 "I beg pardon, lady--I cannot _see_ you--but you are heartily welcome--is your brother with you, Miss Clare? I don't hear him."-- "He could not come, madam, but he sends his love by me.""You have an excellent brother, Miss Cl
- 2 In this first garden of their simpleness They spent their childhood."A circ.u.mstance had lately happened, which in some sort altered the nature of their attachment.Rosamund was one day reading the tale of "Julia de Roubigne"--a book which
- 1 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