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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb novel. A total of 559 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.PREFACE TO THE NEW EDIT
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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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_
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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--
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 460 And Rogers, if he shares the town's regard, Was first a banker ere he rose a bard.In the second edition Dyer altered this to-- And Darwin, if he share the town's regard, Was first a doctor ere he rose a bard.Lamb notes the alteration in his copy
- 461 Why is a horse like a Quaker?Because all his communication is by Hay and Neigh, after the Lord's counsel, "Let all your communication be Yea and Nay."In these trifles I waste the precious day, while watching over the health of our more prec
- 462 "The Sugdens." I do not identify these friends."2d vol. Elias." This would refer, I think, to the American volume, published without authority, in 1828, under the t.i.tle _Elia; or, Second Series_, which Lamb told N.P. Willis he liked.
- 463 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON [P.M. October 24, 1831.]To address an abdicated monarch is a nice point of breeding. To give him his lost t.i.tles is to mock him; to withhold 'em is to wound him. But his Minister who falls with him may be gracefully sym
- 464 _On his Collection of Paintings by the old German Masters_ Friendliest of men, Aders, I never come Within the precincts of this sacred Room, But I am struck with a religious fear, Which says "Let no profane eye enter here."With imagery from Heav
- 465 July 2, 1832.AT midsummer or soon after (I will let you know the previous day), I will take a day with you in the purlieus of my old haunts. No offence has been taken, any more than meant. My house is full at present, but empty of its chief pride. She is
- 466 Of the measureless Bethams Lamb wrote in similar terms, but more fully, in an article in the _New Times_ in 1825, ent.i.tled "Many Friends" (see Vol. I.).On April 9, 1834, Landor wrote to Lady Blessington:-- I do not think that you ever knew Cha
- 467 LETTER 552 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON [Dated by Forster at end: Dec., 1832.]This is my notion. Wait till you are able to throw away a round sum (say 1500) upon a speculation, and then --don't do it. For all your loving encouragem'ts--till this
- 468 Come down with M. and _Dante_ and L.E.L. on Sunday.ELIA.I don't mean at his House, but the Atheneum office. Send it there. Hand shakes.[The Plantas would probably be a reference to the family of Joseph Plantas of the British Museum. M. and Dante and
- 469 [No date. Feb., 1833.]My dear M.--I send you the last proof--not of my friends.h.i.+p-- pray see to the finish.I think you will see the necessity of adding those words after "Preface"--and "Preface" should be in the "contents-tabl
- 470 The weather is so queer that I will not say I _expect_ you &c.--but am prepared for the pleasure of seeing you when you can come.We had given you up (the post man being late) and Emma and I have 20 times this morning been to the door in the rain to spy fo
- 471 But on the faith of a Gentleman, you shall have it back some day _for another_. The 3 I send. I think 2 of the blunders perfectly immaterial.But your feelings, and I fear _pocket_, is every thing. I have just time to pack this off by the 2 o Clock stage.
- 472 Your truest friend C. LAMB.LETTER 574 CHARLES LAMB TO C.W. DILKE [No date. April, 1833.]D'r Sir, I read your note in a moment of great perturbation with my Landlady and chuck'd it in the fire, as I should have done an epistle of Paul, but as far
- 473 By a strange occurrence we have quitted Enfield for ever. Oh! the happy eternity! Who is Vicar or Lecturer for that detestable place concerns us not. But Asbury, surgeon and a good fellow, has offered to get you a Mover and Seconder, and you may use my na
- 474 [Dated at end:] Mr. Walden's, Church Street, Edmonton, May 31, 1833.Dear Mrs. Hazlitt,--I will a.s.suredly come, and find you out, when I am better. I am driven from house and home by Mary's illness. I took a sudden resolution to take my sister
- 475 [_On the next page_:--]Emma hast kist this yellow wafer--a hint.DEAREST M.Never mind opposite nonsense. She does not love you for the watch, but the watch for you.I will be at the wedding, and keep the 30 July as long as my poor months last me, as a festi
- 476 C. LAMB.Has Moxon sent you "Elia," second volume? if not, he shall. Taylor and we are at law about it.["Darley's act." Not now identifiable, I think."Taylor and we." The case had apparently not been settled by Procter. I
- 477 Not bad as a pun. I _wil_ expect you before two on Tuesday. I am well and happy, tell E.[Moxon subsequently published his _Sonnets_, in two parts, one of which was dedicated to his brother and one to Wordsworth. There are several to his wife, so that it i
- 478 "The parcel coming thro' _you_, I open'd this note, but find no treason in it.With thanks C. LAMB."I give here three other notes to Dilke, belonging probably to the early days of 1834. The first refers to the proof of one of Lamb'
- 479 Dear Miss Fryer,--Your letter found me just returned from keeping my birthday (pretty innocent!) at Dover-street. I see them pretty often. I have since had letters of business to write, or should have replied earlier. In one word, be less uneasy about me;
- 480 LETTER 603 (_Fragment_) CHARLES LAMB TO CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE [No date. End of June, 1834.]We heard the Music in the Abbey at Winchmore Hill! and the notes were incomparably soften'd by the distance. Novello's chromatics were distinctly audible.
- 481 118. [When first young Vernon's flight she knew, The lady deemed the tale untrue.]"Deemed"! This word is just repeated above; say "thought" or "held.""Deem" is half-cousin to "ween" and "wot.&quo
- 482 "By Cot's plessing we will not be absence at the grace."DEAR C.,--We long to see you, and hear account of your peregrinations, of the Tun at Heidelburg, the Clock at Strasburg, the statue at Rotterdam, the dainty Rhenish and poignant Mosell
- 483 Yours truly, C. LAMB.[In the life of H.F. Cary by his son we read: "He [Lamb] had borrowed of my father Phillips's _Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum_, which was returned by Lamb's friend, Mr. Moxon, with the leaf folded down at the account of
- 484 FROM DEVOTIONAL VERSES, 1826 (_See_ Letter 388, _page_ 746) "But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that them mayest do it."--Deut. x.x.x. 14.Say not The law divine Is hidden from thee, or far remov'd: That law
- 485 When such a time cometh, I do retire Into an old room, Beside a bright fire; Oh! pile a bright fire!And there I sit Reading old things Of knights and ladies, While the wind sings: Oh! drearily sings!I never look out, Nor attend to the blast; For, all to b
- 486 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.ROSAMUND GRAY (WRITTEN 1797-1798. FIRST EDITION 1798. TEXT OF 1818) CHAPTER I It was noontide. The sun was very hot. An old gentlewoman sat spinning in a little arbour at the door of her co
- 487 "Maria! in my hours of visionary indulgence, I have sometimes painted to myself a _husband_--no matter whom--comforting me amidst the distresses, which fortune had laid upon us. I have smiled upon him through my tears; tears, not of anguish, but of t
- 488 "O, for that matter, I should be sorry to debar the girl from any pleasure--I am sure it's lonesome enough for her to be with _me_ always--and if Miss Clare will take you out, child, I shall do very well by myself till you return--it will not be
- 489 Deprived of such a wife, think you, the old man could have long endured his existence? or what consolation would his wretched daughter have had to offer him, but silent and imbecile tears?My sweet cousin, you will think me tedious--and I am so--but it doe
- 490 So she retired to her little room. The night was warm and clear--the moon very bright--her window commanded a view of _scenes_ she had been tracing in the day-time with Miss Clare.All the events of the day past, the occurrences of their walk, arose in her
- 491 I wandered, scarce knowing where, into an old wood, that stands at the back of the house--we called it the _Wilderness_. A well-known _form_ was missing, that used to meet me in this place--it was thine, Ben Moxam--the kindest, gentlest, politest, of huma
- 492 The uncommonness of the name, which was _Matravis_ suggested to me, that this might possibly be no other than Allan's old enemy. Under this apprehension, I did what I could to dissuade Allan from accompanying me--but he seemed bent upon going, and ev
- 493 Mr. Reflector,--I was born under the shadow of St. Dunstan's steeple, just where the conflux of the eastern and western inhabitants of this twofold city meet and justle in friendly opposition at Temple-bar. The same day which gave me to the world, sa
- 494 WILLIAM ROWLEY,--THOMAS DECKER,--JOHN FORD, &c._The Witch of Edmonton._--Mother Sawyer, in this wild play, differs from the hags of both Middleton and Shakspeare. She is the plain traditional old woman witch of our ancestors; poor, deformed, and ignorant;
- 495 JAMES s.h.i.+RLEY Claims a place amongst the worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendant talent in himself, as that he was the last of a great race, all of whom spoke nearly the same language, and had a set of moral feelings and notions in c
- 496 Your unfortunate friend, PENSILIS.ON THE DANGER OF CONFOUNDING MORAL WITH PERSONAL DEFORMITY; WITH A HINT TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE FRAMING OF ADVERTIs.e.m.e.nTS FOR APPREHENDING OFFENDERS (1810. TEXT OF 1818) _To the Editor of the Reflector_ Mr. Reflector,-
- 497 [7] Lines inscribed under the plate.Is it carrying the spirit of comparison to excess to remark, that in the poor kneeling weeping female, who accompanies her seducer in his sad decay, there is something a.n.a.logous to Kent, or Caius, as he delights rath
- 498 I say not that all the ridiculous subjects of Hogarth have necessarily something in them to make us like them; some are indifferent to us, some in their natures repulsive, and only made interesting by the wonderful skill and truth to nature in the painter
- 499 The notice goes on to inform us, that though the society has been established but a very few years, upwards of eleven hundred persons have put down their names. It is really an affecting consideration to think of so many poor people, of the industrious an
- 500 Nothing but his crimes, his actions, is visible; they are prominent and staring; the murderer stands out, but where is the lofty genius, the man of vast capacity,--the profound, the witty, accomplished Richard?The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare ar