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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
- 501 _Martyrdom._--"Heart of oak hath sometime warped a little in the scorching heat of persecution. Their want of true courage herein cannot be excused. Yet many censure them for surrendering up their forts after a long siege, who would have yielded up t
- 502 You may ask, Mr. Reflector, to what purpose is my appeal to you: what can you do for me? Alas! I know too well that my case is out of the reach of advice,--out of the reach of consolation. But it is some relief to the wounded heart to impart its tale of m
- 503 ----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 from every species of notice.
- 504 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 disposed of one or more perhaps out of a numerous offspring, under
- 505 V.--[STREET CONVERSATION](1813) It should seem almost impossible for a person to have arrived at the age of manhood, and never once to have heard or suspected that there have been people born before our times. Yet this fact I am obliged to conclude from t
- 506 ----Feebly must They have felt, Who, in old time, attired with snakes and whips The vengeful Furies. _Beautiful_ regards Were turned on me--the face of her I loved; The Wife and Mother; pitifully fixing Tender reproaches, insupportable!--p. 133.The conver
- 507 ON THE MELANCHOLY OF TAILORS (1814. TEXT OF 1818) Sedet, aeternumque sedebit, Infelix Theseus. VIRGIL.That there is a professional melancholy, if I may so express myself, incident to the occupation of a tailor, is a fact which I think very few will ventur
- 508 Even where boys have gone through a laborious education, superinducing habits of steady attention, accompanied with the entire conviction that the business which they learn is to be the source of their future distinction, may it not be affirmed that the p
- 509 Neither did any woman, gifted with Mrs. Jordan's or Miss Kelly's sensibilities, ever take upon herself to s.h.i.+ne as a fine lady, the very essence of this character consisting in the entire repression of all genius and all feeling. To sustain
- 510 "Master Abram is dead, gone, your Wors.h.i.+p, dead! Master Abram! Oh! good, your Wors.h.i.+p, a's gone. A' never throve, since a' came from Windsor--'twas his death. I called him rebel, your Wors.h.i.+p--but a' was all subje
- 511 IV.--KEATS' "LAMIA"(1820) LAMIA, ISABELLA, THE EVE OF SAINT AGNES, AND OTHER POEMS. BY JOHN KEATS.AUTHOR OF _ENDYMION_ A cas.e.m.e.nt high and triple-arch'd there was, All garlanded with carven imag'ries Of fruits, and flowers, an
- 512 ----"Amongst which (_true miracles_) I durst boldly tell you for one, the wonderful work of G.o.d, that was within these few years wrought, in the house of a right wors.h.i.+pful knight, Sir Roger Wentworth, upon divers of his children, and specially
- 513 MY DEAR SIR,--The question which you have done me the honour to propose to me, through the medium of our common friend Mr. Grierson, I shall endeavour to answer with as much exactness as a limited observation and experience can warrant.You ask--or rather,
- 514 The last two lines have more music than Denham's can possibly boast._Ritson_ May I have leave to conjecture, that in the very last line of all, the word "the" has erroneously crept in? I am persuaded that the poet wrote "his." To
- 515 _Ritson_ Yet Milton could write: Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bell-man's drowsy charm-- and I dare say he was right. O never let a quaker, or a woman, try their hand at being witty, any more than a Tom Brown af
- 516 _Scott_ The bombastic "immense smile of air, &c.," better omitted._Ritson_ Qute Miltonic--"enormous bliss"--and both, I presume, alike _caviare_ to the Quaker.He comes! he comes! in every breeze the power Of philosophic melancholy come
- 517 This is the wandering wood, this Error's den; A monster vile, whom G.o.d and man does hate: Therefore, I reed, beware. Fly, fly, quoth then The fearful Dwarf, and, if they be writers in orthodox journals--addressing themselves only to the irritable p
- 518 NUGae CRITICae ON A Pa.s.sAGE IN "THE TEMPEST"(1823) As long as I can remember the play of the Tempest, one pa.s.sage in it has always set me upon wondering. It has puzzled me beyond measure. In vain I strove to find the meaning of it. I seemed
- 519 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 particular merits or services, Fabian, whose
- 520 THE ILl.u.s.tRIOUS DEFUNCT[49](1825) Nought but a blank remains, a dead void s.p.a.ce, A step of life that promised such a race.--DRYDEN.Napoleon has now sent us back from the grave sufficient echoes of his living renown: the twilight of posthumous fame h
- 521 THE "LEPUS" PAPERS (1825) I.--MANY FRIENDS Unfortunate is the lot of that man, who can look round about the wide world, and exclaim with truth, _I have no friend_! Do you know any such lonely sufferer? For mercy sake send him to me. I can afford
- 522 Bless us, what a company is a.s.sembled in honour of me! How grand I stand here! I never felt so sensibly before the effect of solitude in a crowd.I muse in solemn silence upon that vast miscellaneous rabble in the pit there. From my private box I contemp
- 523 THE RELIGION OF ACTORS (1826) The world has. .h.i.therto so little troubled its head with the points of doctrine held by a community, which contributes in other ways so largely to its amus.e.m.e.nt, that, before the late mischance of a celebrated tragic a
- 524 Poor Starkey, when young, had that peculiar stamp of old-fas.h.i.+onedness in his face, which makes it impossible for a beholder to predicate any particular age in the object. You can scarce make a guess between seventeen and seven and thirty. This antiqu
- 525 Apology will scarcely be required for introducing a character, who at this season of the year comes forth in renovated honours, and may aptly be termed one of its _ever-blues_--not a peculiar of either Farringdons, nor him of Cripplegate, or St. Giles in
- 526 The Ex-member for Garrat was a melancholy instance of a great man whose popularity is worn out. He still carried his sack, but it seemed a part of his ident.i.ty rather than an implement of his profession; a badge of past grandeur; could any thing have di
- 527 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 play of _King Lear_, I beg to lay before you certain kindred enormities that you may be less aw
- 528 CLARENCE SONGS.--No. II Sir,--A friend has just reminded me of a ballad made on occasion of some s.h.i.+pboard sc.r.a.pe into which our Royal Mids.h.i.+pman had fallen; in which, with a _romantic licence_, the rank of the young sailor is supposed to have
- 529 One a small infant at the breast does bear; And one in her right hand her tuneful ware, Which she would vend. Their station scarce is taken, When youths and maids flock round. His stall forsaken, Forth comes a Son of Crispin, leathern-capt, Prepared to bu
- 530 "We read the Paradise Lost as a task," says Dr. Johnson. Nay, rather as a celestial recreation, of which the dullard mind is not at all hours alike recipient. "n.o.body ever wished it longer;"--nor the moon rounder, he might have added
- 531 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 could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of
- 532 APPENDIX ESSAYS AND NOTES NOT CERTAIN TO BE LAMB'S, BUT PROBABLY HIS Sc.r.a.pS OF CRITICISM (1822) Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to e
- 533 The soft blandishments of _Joan_, the gentle _Pope_-- Intriguing Hebe to the G.o.d of Game-- wrings from his austere Deity his slow permission for the interference of the Olympeans in the fight below, and accordingly they range on either side, as in the I
- 534 Forgive me, BURNEY, if to thee these late And hasty products of a critic pen, Thyself no common judge of books and men, In feeling of thy worth I dedicate.My _verse_ was offered to an older friend; The humbler _prose_ has fallen to thy share: Nor could I
- 535 "THEATRE "COVENT GARDEN "Mr. Cooke performed _Lear_ in the celebrated Tragedy of that name at this Theatre last night. It is a character little suited to his talents. In the expression of strong and turbulent pa.s.sions, he will always find
- 536 _Abhor._ Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?_Pom._ Very ready, sir.Act IV., Scene 3, lines 23-40.Page 73, line 3. _The Angel in Milton._ Made so adorn for they delight the more, So awful, that with honour thou may'st love Thy mate, who sees when thou
- 537 Page 104, line 19. _The O.P. differences._ The O.P.--Old Prices--Riots raged in 1809. On September 18 of that year the new Covent Garden Theatre was opened under the management of John Philip Kemble and Charles Kemble, with a revised price list. The oppos
- 538 _Gentleman's Magazine_, November, 1811. Not reprinted by Lamb.Robert Lloyd (1778-1811) was a younger brother of Charles Lloyd, for a while Coleridge's pupil and Lamb's friend of the later nineties, with whom he collaborated in _Blank Verse,
- 539 Page 165, line 9 from foot. _Philip Quarll's Island_. One of the imitations of _Robinson Crusoe_. The full t.i.tle ran: _The Hermit: or the unparalleled sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman, who was lately discover
- 540 _The Examiner_, September 12, 1813. Signed .Page 180. VI.--[A TOWN RESIDENCE.]_The Examiner_, September 12, 1813. Signed .This note is another contribution to Lamb's many remarks on London.Allsop, in his reminiscences of Lamb in his _Letters, Conversatio
- 541 Page 188, line 7. _Which Thomson so feelingly describes._ This is the pa.s.sage, from Thomson's _Seasons_, "Winter," 799-809:-- There, through the prison of unbounded wilds, Barr'd by the hand of Nature from escape, Wide roams the Russian exile. Nough
- 542 In _The Champion_ for December 11, 1814, was printed a letter defending tailors against Lamb.Page 204. ON NEEDLE-WORK._The British Lady's Magazine and Monthly Miscellany_, April 1, 1815. By Mary Lamb.The authority for attributing this paper to Mary Lamb
- 543 There is, however, enough genuine un-negatived Lamb (as he would say) remaining to make this edition of Wither a very desirable possession of all collectors of Lamb.What is even more surprising than Lamb's silence on the subject--which may easily be acco
- 544 Page 220, line 6. _Miss Stevenson._ This actress afterwards became Mrs.Wiepperts.Page 220, line 12. _She that played Rachel._ Miss Kelly. Lamb returned to his praise of this piece and of Miss Kelly in it in a note to the "Garrick Plays," but he there cr
- 545 Page 224, line 12. _"Amateurs and Actors" ... Mr. Peak._ A musical farce, by Richard Brinsley Peake (1792-1847), produced in 1818.Page 224, last paragraph. _Last week's article._ That on "The Hypocrite," preceding this (see notes above). "A New Way
- 546 Page 246. THE CONFESSIONS OF H. F. V. H. DELAMORE, ESQ._London Magazine_, April, 1821. First reprinted in Mr. Dobell's _Sidelights on Charles Lamb_, 1903.Lamb's "Chapter on Ears" had appeared in the March number, containing the sentence, "I was never
- 547 We may set off against this the comment of Crabb Robinson:-- Nothing that Lamb has ever written has impressed me more strongly with the sweetness of his disposition and the strength of his affections.Coleridge and Hazlitt also both commended the "Letter.
- 548 Page 270, line 9. _W. A._ William Ayrton (1777-1858), the musical critic; in Hazlitt's praise, "the Will Honeycomb of our set."Page 270, line 12. _Admiral Burney._ Rear-Admiral Burney (1750-1821), brother of f.a.n.n.y Burney, Madame D'Arblay. The Admi
- 549 I have collated the pa.s.sage quoted by Lamb with the original edition of the sermon. Of the Latin phrases which Taylor does not translate, the first is from Sidonius Apollinaris, _Carm._, XXII.: "The stall of the Thracian King, the altars of Busiris, th
- 550 And it is told of Lamb that he once complained that the Unitarians had robbed him of two-thirds of his G.o.d.I do not identify M----, the friend to whom this letter was written.Page 314. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MR. MUNDEN._London Magazine_, February, 1825. Not r
- 551 Page 331, line 1. _My friends from over the water_. Referring to the prisoners in the King's Bench Prison at Southwark, who would be allowed out during the day--hence "ephemeral Romans," or freemen, and "flies of a day": being obl
- 552 _New Monthly Magazine_, June, 1826, where it formed part of the series of "Popular Fallacies," of which all the others were reprinted in the _Last Essays of Elia_. Lamb did not reprint it.The unnamed works referred to are _The Register of the Mo
- 553 Hone's _Every-Day Book_, which purported to take account of every day in the year, had pa.s.sed without a word from February 28 to March 1. Hence this protest.Page 350, line 13. _An antique scroll_. On February 28 Hone printed these lines:-- FOR THE
- 554 Page 360. VI.--AN APPEARANCE OF THE SEASON._Every-Day Book_, Vol. II., January 28, 1826. Not reprinted by Lamb.We know this to be Lamb's because the original copy was preserved at Rowfant, together with that of many other of Lamb's contributions
- 555 Lamb's "Defeat of Time" is a paraphrase of the first part of Hood's poem.Page 371, line 10. _"In the flowery spring," etc._ From Chapman's Translation of Homer's "Hymn to Pan," 31-33.Page 373, line 15 from
- 556 This criticism of the Secondary Novels is usually preceded in the editions of Lamb's works by the following remarks contained in Lamb's letter to Wilson of December 16, 1822, which Wilson printed as page 428 of Vol. III., but they do not rightly
- 557 Page 391. THE LATIN POEMS OF VINCENT BOURNE._The Englishman's Magazine_, September, 1831.This article was unsigned, but it is known to be by Lamb from internal evidence and from the following letter to Moxon, the publisher of the magazine:-- "DE
- 558 That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack when it begins to rain, And leave thee in the storm.Page 402, second and third quotations. "_The Nut-Brown Maid._" This poem is given in the _Percy Reliques_. The oldest for
- 559 Page 429. A CHECK TO HUMAN PRIDE. _London Magazine_, February, 1823. Not signed.Page 429. REVIEW OF DIBDIN'S "COMIC TALES."_The New Times_, January 27, 1825.I have no doubt that Lamb wrote this review, both from internal evidence and from w