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
fear cheer thinking
Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.
i-like-you book historical
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
dinner eating pleasure
Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!
festivals red purpose
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
hate
I could never hate anyone I knew.
home charity philanthropy
Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
character men people
I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
fighting bravery soldier
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
heart stains combat
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
heart peculiar veins
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
heart stealing stolen
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
men poor estates
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
voice zion cheerful
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
heart giving poor
I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.