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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
- 359 My dear Sarah,--I have taken a large sheet of paper, as if I were going to write a long letter; but that is by no means my intention, for I only have time to write three lines to notify what I ought to have done the moment I received your welcome letter.
- 358 She promised to call on me before she left town but the weather having been very bad I suppose has prevented her. She received the letter which came through my brother's hands and I have learned from Mrs. Montagu that all your commissions are execute
- 357 began with a reference to _Rosamund Gray_. I quote the pa.s.sage containing the turgid example.Let us return to an instance of common life. I quote it with reluctance, not so much for its absurdity as that the expression in one place will strike at first
- 356 LETTER 187 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN MATHEW GUTCH [April 9th, 1810.]Dear Gutch,--I did not see your brother, who brought me Wither; but he understood, he said, you were daily expecting to come to town: this has prevented my writing. The books have pleased me e
- 355 "The spiteful elder sister." This story is in Grimm, I think."The _Life of Holcroft_." The _Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft_, begun by Holcroft and finished by Hazlitt, although completed in 1810, was not published until 1816.Here should co
- 354 Here should come four letters from Lamb to Charles Lloyd, Senior. They are all printed in _Charles Lamb and the Lloyds_. The first, dated June 13, 1809, contains an interesting criticism of a translation of the twenty-fourth book of the _Iliad_, which Cha
- 353 CHARLES LAMB TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON [Dated by H. C. R.: May, 1809.]Dear Sir,--Would you be so kind as, when you go to the Times office, to see about an Advertis.e.m.e.nt which My Landlady's Daughter left for insertion about ten days since and has no
- 352 C. LAMB.["The Skeffington." Referring probably to some dramatic scheme in which Sir Lumley Skeffington, an amateur playwright, had tried to engage Lamb's pen. Lamb's share of the speaking pantomime for the Sheridans has vanished. We do
- 351 Yours truly, C. LAMB.Sat.u.r.day, 12 Mar., 1808.[This is the first letter to Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867), whom Lamb was destined to know very intimately, and to whose _Diary_ we are indebted for much of our information concerning the Lambs. Robinson,
- 350 "Young Davy." Afterwards Sir Humphry Davy, and now one of Coleridge's correspondents. He had been awarded the Napoleon prize of 3,000 francs "for his discoveries announced in the _Philosophical Transactions_ for the year 1807."&qu
- 349 LETTER 166 MARY LAMB TO SARAH STODDART [P.M. February 12, 1808.]My dear Sarah,--I have sent your letter and drawing off to Wm. Hazlitt's father's in Shrops.h.i.+re, where I conjecture Hazlitt is. He left town on Sat.u.r.day afternoon, without te
- 348 [Lamb has run his pen lightly through "G.o.d bless me," at the beginning of the postscript.The plates to the _Tales from Shakespear_ will be found reproduced in facsimile in Vol. III. of my large edition. They were designed probably by Mulready.
- 347 Mary's Love to all of you--I wouldn't let her write-- Dear Wordsworth, Mr. H. came out last night and failed.I had many fears; the subject was not substantial enough. John Bull must have solider fare than a _Letter_. We are pretty stout about it
- 346 LETTER 157 MARY LAMB TO SARAH STODDART [P.M. October 23, 1806.]My dear Sarah--I thank you a thousand times for the beautiful work you have sent me, I received the parcel from a strange gentleman yesterday.I like the patterns very much, you have quite set
- 345 Let me hear from you soon, and do let me hear some [good news,] and don't let me hear of your walking with sprained ancles again; no business is an excuse for making yourself lame.I hope your poor Mother is better, and Aunty and Maid jog on pretty we
- 344 Martin [Burney] has just been here. My Tales (_again_) and Charles's Farce has made the boy mad to turn Author; and he has written a Farce, and he has made the Winter's Tale into a story; but what Charles says of himself is really true of Martin
- 343 Dear Rickman,--I send you some papers about a salt-water soap, for which the inventor is desirous of getting a parliamentary reward, like Dr.Jenner. Whether such a project be feasible, I mainly doubt, taking for granted the equal utility. I should suppose
- 342 Returning home from the Inn, we took that to pieces, and ca[n]va.s.sed you, as you know is our usual custom. We agreed we should miss you sadly, and that you had been, what you yourself discovered, _not at all in our way_; and although, if the Post Master
- 341 Nothing like defining of Terms when we talk. What blunders might I have fallen into of quite inapplicable Criticism, but for this timely explanation.N.B. At the beginning of _Edm._ Spencer (to prevent mistakes) I have copied from my own copy, and primaril
- 340 Write, I beg, by the return of the post; and as I am very anxious to hear whether you are, as I fear, dissatisfied with me, you shall, if you please, direct my letter to Nurse. Her direction is, Mrs. Grant, at Mr.Smith's, _Maidenhead_, Ram Court, Fle
- 339 But to speak seriously. I mean, when we mean [? meet], that we will lay our heads together, and consult and contrive the best way of making the best girl in the world the fine Lady her brother wishes to see her; and believe me, Sarah, it is not so difficu
- 338 Was Coleridge often with you? or did your brother and Col. argue long arguments, till between the two great arguers there grew a little coolness?--or perchance the mighty friends.h.i.+p between Coleridge and your Sovereign Governor, Sir Alexander Ball, mi
- 337 G.o.d bless you and yours my dear friend.I am yours affectionately M. LAMB.[Dr. Beddoes, who was attending Mrs. Clarkson, would be, I suppose, Thomas Beddoes of Clifton (1760-1808), the father of Thomas Lovell Beddoes and a friend of Coleridge and Southey
- 336 "_Praesens ut absens_." Lamb enlarged upon the topic of gifts and giving many years later, in the Popular Fallacy "That we must not look a Gift Horse in the Mouth," 1826, and in his "Thoughts on Presents of Game,"1833.]LETTER
- 335 Mrs. Coleridge now had three children--Hartley, Derwent and Sara. We do not know whether or no she stayed with the Lambs, as suggested. Her brother was George Fricker.William Hazlitt's sister was Peggy Hazlitt. His sister-in-law, Mrs.Hazlitt, was the
- 334 LETTER 124 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [P.M. October 13, 1804.](Turn over leaf for more letters.) Dear Wordsworth--I have not forgot your commissions.But the truth is, and why should I not confess it? I am not plethorically abounding in Cash at thi
- 333 Wherefore to day art singing in mine ear Sad songs were made so long ago, my dear?This day I am to be a bride, you know.Why sing sad songs were made so long ago?_Child_."O Mother lay your costly robes aside,"_For you may never be another's
- 332 "Mrs. Reynolds"--Lamb's old schoolmistress and pensioner. Mrs. Jefferies I do not know.]LETTER 118 CHARLES LAMB TO S. T. COLERIDGE [P.M. April 4, 1804.]Mary would send her best love, but I write at office.Thursday [April 5].The 1 came safe.
- 331 Lamb's early Merchant Taylors' verses have been lost, but two epigrams that he wrote many years later for the sons of Hessey, the publisher, have been preserved (see the letter to Southey, May 10, 1830).]LETTER 115 CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS POOLE [
- 330 LETTER 111 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN RICKMAN Sat.u.r.day Morning, July 16th, 1803.Dear Rickman,--I enclose you a wonder, a letter from the shades. A dead body wants to return, and be inrolled _inter vivos_. 'Tis a gentle ghost, and in this Galvanic age it
- 329 LETTER 109 CHARLES LAMB TO S. T. COLERIDGE 27th May, 1803.My dear Coleridge,--The date of my last was one day prior to the receipt of your letter, full of foul omens. I explain, lest you should have thought mine too light a reply to such sad matter. I ser
- 328 Under this cold marble stone Sleep the sad remains of One, Who, when alive, by few or none 2 Was lov'd, as lov'd she might have been, If she prosp'rous days had seen, Or had thriving been, I ween.3 Only this cold funeral stone Tells, she wa
- 327 33 And look where mantled up in white He sleds it, like the Muscovite.I know him by the port he bears, And his lifeguard of mountaineers.34 Their caps are furr'd with h.o.a.ry frosts, The bravery their cold kingdom boasts; Their spungy plads are milk
- 326 Accustom yourself to write familiar letters on common subjects to your friends in England, such as are of a moderate understanding. And think about common things more. There's your friend Holcroft now, has written a play. You used to be fond of the d
- 325 I will tell you more about Chapman and his peculiarities in my next. I am much interested in him.Yours ever affectionately, and Pi-Pos's.C.L.[Coleridge was just now contributing political essays as well as verse to the _Morning Post_. "Once a Ja
- 324 Your Wordsworth nuptials (or rather the nuptials of a certain Edmund of yours) fill me with joy in your report. May you prosper, Mary, fortunate beyond compare, and perchance comparable to that ancient Virgin Mary (a comparison more than Caesarean) since
- 323 "Even less than me." Mr. W. C. Hazlitt gives in _Mary and Charles Lamb_ a vivid impression of Lamb's spare figure. A farmer at Widford, Mr.Charles Tween, himself not a big man, told Mr. Hazlitt that when walking out with Lamb he would place
- 322 I will now transcribe the "Londoner" (No. 1), and wind up all with affection and humble servant at the end.THE LONDONER. No. 1.In compliance with my own particular humour, no less than with thy laudable curiosity, Reader, I proceed to give thee
- 321 [The point of signing this letter with G.o.dwin's name and adding his address (Lamb, it will be noticed, was then at Margate) is not clear.I place here the following letter, not having any clue as to date, which is immaterial:--]LETTER 92 CHARLES LAM
- 320 LETTER 89 CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS MANNING [P.M. August 31, 1801.]I heard that you were going to China, with a commission from the Wedgwoods to collect hints for their pottery, and to teach the Chinese _perspective_. But I did not know that London lay in yo
- 319 [No date. ? April, 1801.]Dear Manning,--I sent to Brown's immediately. Mr. Brown (or Pijou, as he is called by the moderns) denied the having received a letter from you.The one for you he remembered receiving, and remitting to Leadenhall Street; whit
- 318 "When thou First camest into the World, as it befalls To new-born Infants, thou didst sleep away Two days: and _Blessings from Thy father's Tongue Then fell upon thee_."The lines were thus undermarked, and then followed "This Pa.s.sage
- 317 Manning's reply, dated December, 1800, gives a little information concerning the Edinburgh physician's letter--"that gentleman whose fertile brain can, at a moment's warning, furnish you with 10 Thousand models of a plot--'The gre
- 316 [Footnote 5: Two _neat_ lines.][Footnote 6: Or _you_.][Footnote 7: Or _our_, as _they_ have altered it.][Footnote 8: Ant.i.thesis.]["As one Tobin's." The rehearsals of "Antonio" were attended by G.o.dwin's friend, John Tobin,
- 315 LETTER 73 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM G.o.dWIN [No date. Autumn, 1800.]Queries. Whether the best conclusion would not be a solemn judicial pleading, appointed by the king, before himself in person of Antonio as proxy for Roderigo, and Guzman for himself--the
- 314 Lamb's visit to Cambridge was deferred until January 5, 1801.]LETTER 70 CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS MANNING [P.M. Nov. 3, 1800.]_Ecquid meditatur Archimedes?_ What is Euclid doing? What has happened to learned Trismegist?--Doth he take it in ill part, tha
- 313 By-the-by, I have a sort of recollection that somebody, I think _you_, promised me a sight of Wordsworth's Tragedy. I should be very glad of it just now; for I have got Manning with me, and should like to read it _with him_. But this, I confess, is a
- 312 By-the-by, where did you pick up that scandalous piece of private history about the angel and the d.u.c.h.ess of Devons.h.i.+re? If it is a fiction of your own, why truly it is a very modest one _for you_. Now I do affirm that "Lewti" is a very
- 311 "Eliza Buckingham." Sara Coleridge's message was probably intended for Eliza, a servant at the Buckingham Street lodgings.Lambe was _The Anti-Jacobin's_ idea of Lamb's name; and indeed many persons adhered to it to the end. Mrs. C
- 310 Here should come a letter from Lamb to Robert Lloyd, in which he describes a visit to Gutch's family at Oxford, and mentions his admiration for a fine head of Bishop Taylor in All Souls' Library, which was an inducement to the Oxford visit. He r
- 309 The proof-sheets were those of _Wallenstein_. Henry Sampson Woodfall was the famous printer of the _Letters of Junius_._Christabel_, Coleridge's poem, had been begun in 1797; it was finished, in so far as it was finished, later in the year 1800. It w
- 308 C. L.Flour has just fallen nine s.h.i.+llings a sack! we shall be all too rich.Tell Charles I have seen his Mamma, and have almost fallen in love with _her_, since I mayn't with Olivia. She is so fine and graceful, a complete Matron-Lady-Quaker. She
- 307 LETTER 49 CHARLES LAMB TO S.T. COLERIDGE ? Jan. 23, 1800.Dear Coleridge,--Now I write, I cannot miss this opportunity of acknowledging the obligations myself, and the readers in general of that luminous paper, the "Morning Post," are under to yo
- 306 Between this and the next letter should probably come a letter from Lamb to Robert Lloyd, not available for this edition. It seems to follow upon Robert Lloyd's departure from Lamb's house, and remarks that Lamb knows but one being that he could
- 305 If you come to town by Ash Wednesday [February 6], you will certainly see Lloyd here--I expect him by that time.My sister Mary was never in better health or spirits than now.[Writing in June, 1799, to Robert Lloyd, Priscilla, his sister, says: "Lamb
- 304 This poor fellow (whom I know just enough of to vouch for his strict integrity & worth) has lost two or three employments from illness, which he cannot regain; he was once insane, & from the distressful uncertainty of his livelihood has reason to apprehen
- 303 CHARLES LAMB TO ROBERT SOUTHEY [Probably November, 1798.]The following is a second Extract from my Tragedy _that is to be_,--'tis narrated by an old Steward to Margaret, orphan ward of Sir Walter Woodvil;--this, and the Dying Lover I gave you, are th
- 302 LETTER 37 CHARLES LAMB TO ROBERT SOUTHEY Nov. 3, 1798.I have read your Eclogue ["The Wedding"] repeatedly, and cannot call it bald, or without interest; the cast of it, and the design are completely original, and may set people upon thinking: it
- 301 C. LAMB.I hope Edith is better; my kindest remembrances to her. You have a good deal of trifling to forgive in this letter.[This is Lamb's first letter to Southey that has been preserved.Probably others came before it. Southey now becomes Lamb's
- 300 Presuming on our long habits of friends.h.i.+p and emboldened further by your late liberal permission to avail myself of your correspondence, in case I want any knowledge, (which I intend to do when I have no Encyclopaedia or Lady's Magazine at hand
- 299 and some most false, False and fair-foliag'd as the Manchineel, Have tempted me to slumber in their shade --the manchineel being a poisonous West Indian tree.Between this and the next letter probably came correspondence that has now been lost.]LETTER
- 298 Tom Poole was Thomas Poole (1765-1837), a wealthy tanner, and Coleridge's friend, correspondent and patron, who lived at Stowey.The Patriot and John Thelwall were one. See note on page 93."That inscription," The "Lines left upon a Seat
- 297 Monday Night.["Little drawer where I keep ..." Lamb soon lost the habit of keeping any letters, except Manning's."Wanderings with a fair-hair'd maid." Lamb's own line. See sonnet quoted above.Lamb's visit to Stowey
- 296 C. LAMB.[Lloyd's domestication with Coleridge had been intermittent. It began in September, 1796; in November Lloyd was very ill; in December Coleridge told Mr. Lloyd that he would retain his son no longer as pupil but merely as a lodger and friend;
- 295 [Coleridge intended to print in his new edition the lines that he had contributed to Southey's _Joan of Arc_, 1796, with certain additions, under the t.i.tle "The Progress of Liberty; or, The Visions of the Maid of Orleans." Writing to Cott
- 294 Our house is better than we expected--there is a comfortable bedroom and sitting-room for C. Lloyd, and another for us, a room for Nanny, a kitchen, and out-house. Before our door a clear brook runs of very soft water; and in the back yard is a nice _well
- 293 LETTER 19 CHARLES LAMB TO S. T. COLERIDGE [Dated outside: Jan. 2, 1797.]Your success in the higher species of the Ode is such, as bespeaks you born for atchievements of loftier enterprize than to linger in the lowly train of songsters and sonneteurs. Sinc
- 292 That softer name, perhaps more gladly still, Might he demand them at the gates of death."I cannot but smile to see my Granny so gayly deck'd forth: tho', I think, whoever altered "thy" praises to "her" praises, "thy
- 291 As it happened Coleridge did not begin his second edition with the "Joan of Arc" lines, but with the "Ode to the New Year." The "Religious Musings" brought Coleridge's part of the volume to a close.The poem on page 73 wa
- 290 LETTER 14 CHARLES LAMB TO S. T. COLERIDGE Nov. 14th, 1796.Coleridge, I love you for dedicating your poetry to Bowles. Genius of the sacred fountain of tears, it was he who led you gently by the hand through all this valley of weeping, showed you the dark
- 289 CHARLES LAMB TO S.T. COLERIDGE Oct. 24th, 1796. [Monday.]Coleridge, I feel myself much your debtor for that spirit of confidence and friends.h.i.+p which dictated your last letter. May your soul find peace at last in your cottage life! I only wish you wer
- 288 The child by her cries quickly brought up the landlord of the house, but too late--the dreadful scene presented to him the mother lifeless, pierced to the heart, on a chair, her daughter yet wildly standing over her with the fatal knife, and the venerable
- 287 LETTER 7 CHARLES LAMB TO S.T. COLERIDGE the 6th July [P.M. July 7, 1796].Subst.i.tute in room of that last confused & incorrect Paragraph, following the words "disastrous course," these lines [Sidenote: Vide 3d page of this epistle.]{ With bette
- 286 "Then up rose our bard, like a prophet in drink, Craigdoroch, thou'lt soar when creation shall sink."BURNS._Thursday_ [June 16, 1796].I am now in high hopes to be able to visit you, if perfectly convenient on your part, by the end of next m
- 285 The 4th Epistle is that to Joseph Cottle, Coleridge's publisher and the author of the "Monody on Henderson," referred to in Coleridge's verses.The lines which Lamb quotes are Cottle's. The poem by Sara Coleridge is "The Silve
- 284 which had been printed in Coleridge's _Poems_, 1796. The second, third and fourth of the sonnets that are copied in this letter were printed in the second edition of Coleridge's _Poems_, 1797. Anna is generally supposed to be Ann Simmons, referr
- 283 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.Vol. 5.by Edited by E. V. Lucas.PREFACE This edition of the correspondence of Charles and Mary Lamb contains 618 letters, of which 45 are by Mary Lamb alone. It is the only edition to contain all Mary Lamb's letters
- 282 Page 208. _The man with the great nose_. See Slawkenbergiuss tale in _Tristram Shandy_, Vol. IV. Page 212. _The feeling Hurley_. Harley was the hero of Henry Mackenzies novel, _The Man of Feeling_. Page 217. _Jeremiah Pry_. John Poole may have taken a hin
- 281 Still have the will without the power to execute, As unfear'd Eunuchs meditate a rape.This simile, which one reviewer fell upon with some violence, was not reprinted.Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, writing in The Athenceum, December 28, 1901, remarks: "T
- 280 _Robert_. G.o.d bless your honour for your kindness to my poor father._John_. Pray, now make haste. You may chance to come in time.[_Robert goes out_.]_John_. Go get some firewood, Francis, And get my supper ready. [_Francis goes out_.]The night is bitter
- 279 And so to the end of her long speech as printed [page 189].At this point in the MS. comes in "the hodge-podge of German puerilities" (see the letter to Manning, February 15, 1802), the sacrifice of which so discontented Manning, who evidently co
- 278 Might find a poor grave in some spot, not far From his mistress' family vault, "being the place Where one day Anna should herself be laid."(So far in the _Magazine_.) [Footnote 32: "With" (_London Magazine_).][Footnote 33: "I
- 277 Before night comes we will contrive to meet, And then I will tell you further. Till when, farewell._Sandford_. My prayers go with you, Lady, and your counsels, And heaven so prosper them, as I wish you well.[_They part several ways_.]Here follows:-- Scene
- 276 "C. LAMB."The two persons were undoubtedly Charles Lamb and his sister.]Before proceeding to the MS. itself, it will be desirable to refer to Lamb's letter to Manning of February 15, 1802, in which he defends himself against Manning's
- 275 First published in 1802 in a slender volume ent.i.tled _John Woodvil: a Tragedy. By C. Lamb. To which are added Fragments of Burton, the author of the Anatomy of Melancholy._ The full contents of the book were:-- John Woodvil; Ballad, From the German (see
- 274 William G.o.dwin's tragedy "Faulkener" was produced at Drury Lane, December 16, 1807, with some success. Lamb's letters to G.o.dwin of September 9 and 17, 1801, suggest that he had a share in the framing of the plot. Later the play was
- 273 _The Literary Gazette_ was William Jerdan's paper, a poor thing, which Lamb had reason to dislike for the attack it made upon him when _Alb.u.m Verses_ was published (see note on page 331)._The Examiner_ began the attack on August 14, 1830. All the e
- 272 Page 120. _Song for the C----n_._The Champion_, July 15 and 16, 1820. Reprinted in _The Poetical Recreations of "The Champion,"_ 1822.A song for the Coronation, which was fixed for 1821. Queen Caroline returned to England in June, 1820, staying
- 271 Page 115. _Twelfth Night Characters_...._Morning Post_, January 8, 1802.These epigrams were identified by the late Mr. d.y.k.es Campbell from a letter of Lamb's to John Rickman, dated Jan. 14, 1802, printed in Ainger's edition.A---- is, of cours
- 270 From the copy preserved among Henry Crabb Robinson's papers at Dr.Williams' Library. Sarah Robinson was the niece of H.C.R., who was the pilgrim in Rome. The stranger to thy land was Emma Isola, Fornham, in Suffolk, where she was living, being n
- 269 Page 105. _The First Leaf of Spring_.Printed in _The Athenaeum_, January 10, 1846, contributed probably by Thomas Westwood. In a note prefacing the three poems which he was sending, this correspondent stated that "The First Leaf of Spring" had b
- 268 Page 94. _Lines for a Monument_....First printed in _The Athenaeum_, November 5, 1831, and again in _The Tatler_, Hunt's paper, December 31, 1831. In August, 1830, four sons and two daughters of John and Ann Rigg, of York, were drowned in the Ouse.Se
- 267 Printed in the _London Magazine_, October, 1820, where it was preceded by these words:-- "To THE EDITOR "Mr. Editor,--The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady, who, from her diverting sportiveness in childhood, was nam
- 266 Page 79. _In the Alb.u.m of Rotha Q----_.Rotha Quillinan, younger daughter of Edward Quillinan (1791-1851), Wordsworth's friend and, afterwards, son-in-law. His first wife, a daughter of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, was burned to death in 1822 under t
- 265 Mrs. Williams probably then suggested that Lamb should write her epitaph, for in his next letter he says:--"I have ventured upon some lines, which combine my old acrostic talent (which you first found out) with my new profession of epitaphmonger. As
- 264 Page 59. _Written at Cambridge_.This sonnet was first printed in _The Examiner_, August 29 and 30, 1819, and was dated August 15. Lamb, we now know, from a letter recently discovered, was in Cambridge in August, 1819, just after being refused by Miss Kell
- 263 Page 52. _The Christening._ These lines were first printed in _Blackwood's Magazine,_ May, 1829.Page 53. _On an Infant Dying as soon as Born._ This poem was first printed in _The Gem,_ 1829. _The Gem_ was then edited by Thomas Hood, whose child--his
- 262 TO CHARLES LAMB On the Reviewal of his _Alb.u.m Verses_ in the _Literary Gazette_.Charles Lamb, to those who know thee justly dear, For rarest genius, and for sterling worth, Unchanging friends.h.i.+p, warmth of heart sincere, And wit that never gave an i
- 261 In the letter to Dorothy Wordsworth of June 14, 1805, quoted just above, Lamb says: "I cannot resist transcribing three or four Lines which poor Mary [she was at this time away from home in one of her enforced absences] made upon a Picture (a Holy Fa
- 260 Page 30. _A Ballad Noting the Difference of Rich and Poor_.These two poems formed, in the _John Woodvil_ volume, 1802, portions of the "Fragments of Burton," which will be found in Vol. I. Lamb afterwards took out these poems and printed them se