Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
tombstone ordinary disgusting
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
tombstone looks doe
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
friends court
It is good to have friends at court.
money liberty may
O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
men animal gambling
Man is a gaming animal.
done world tasks
I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
feels
I have something more to do than to feel.
taste remember ancient
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
dream poetry poet
The true poet dreams being awake.
prejudice bundles made
I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
character imagination mind
It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
knowing feelings attention
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
christian mother jesus
Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.
brother book demand
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.