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
love flower eye
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.
sweet children sweet-child
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
reality theatre pressure
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
taken departed faces
How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
gambling games fire
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
cousin brother father
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
sick enjoy prerogative
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
gambling folds
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
gone faces joyful
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
eye men space
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
men apples mind
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
thinking may way
You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
doe tease trumpets
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
trying despair scottish
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.