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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
- 159 This question, so oddly put, made my mother smile; but in a little time she put on a more grave look, and informed me, that a church was nothing that I had supposed it, but it was a great building, far greater than any house which I had seen, where men, a
- 158 My papa stopped the coach opposite to St. Dunstan's church, that I might see the great iron figures strike upon the bell, to give notice that it was a quarter of an hour past two. We waited some time that I might see this sight, but just at the momen
- 157 From this room I usually proceeded to the garden.When I was weary of the garden I wandered over the rest of the house.The best suite of rooms I never saw by any other light than what glimmered through the tops of the window-shutters, which however served
- 156 It was on that day that I thought she was not quite honest in her expressions of joy at the sight of my poor mother, who had been waiting at the garden-gate near two hours to see her arrive; yet she might be, for the music had put her in remarkably good s
- 155 When I was first in possession of this wonderful secret, my heart burned to reveal it. I thought how praiseworthy it would be in me to restore to my friend the rights of her birth; yet I thought only of becoming her patroness, and raising her to her prope
- 154 After the syllabub there was the garden to see, and a most beautiful garden it was;--long and narrow, a straight gravel walk down the middle of it, at the end of the gravel walk there was a green arbour with a bench under it.There were rows of cabbages an
- 153 During our first solemn silence, which, you may remember, was only broken by my repeated requests that you would make a smaller, and still smaller circle, till I saw the fire-place fairly inclosed round, the idea came into my mind, which has since been a
- 152 He told her (as he had before told to Eumaeus) that he was a Cretan born, and however poor and cast down he now seemed, no less a man than brother to Idomeneus, who was grandson to king Minos, and though he now wanted bread, he had once had it in his powe
- 151 For this saying of Eumaeus the waters stood in Ulysses's eyes, and he said, "My friend, to say and to affirm positively that he cannot be alive, is to give too much licence to incredulity. For, not to speak at random, but with as much solemnity
- 150 Ulysses as he entered the city wondered to see its magnificence, its markets, buildings, temples; its walls and rampires; its trade, and resort of men; its harbours for s.h.i.+pping, which is the strength of the Phaeacian state. But when he approached the
- 149 A memorable example of married love, and a worthy instance how dear to every good man his country is, was exhibited by Ulysses. If Circe loved him sincerely, Calypso loves him with tenfold more warmth and pa.s.sion: she can deny him nothing, but his depar
- 148 "Clytemnestra, my wicked wife, forgetting the vows which she swore to me in wedlock, would not lend a hand to close my eyes in death. But nothing is so heaped with impieties as such a woman, who would kill her spouse that married her a maid. When I b
- 147 This history tells of the wanderings of Ulysses and his followers in their return from Troy, after the destruction of that famous city of Asia by the Grecians. He was inflamed with a desire of seeing again after a ten years absence, his wife and native co
- 146 PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (_By Mary Lamb_) Pericles, prince of Tyre, became a voluntary exile from his dominions, to avert the dreadful calamities which Antiochus, the wicked emperor of Greece, threatened to bring upon his subjects and city of Tyre, in rev
- 145 It was by desire of the king that the queen sent for Hamlet, that she might signify to her son how much his late behaviour had displeased them both; and the king, wis.h.i.+ng to know all that pa.s.sed at that conference, and thinking that the too partial
- 144 It being midnight, Romeo with his companions departed; but they soon missed him, for unable to stay away from the house where he had left his heart, he leaped the wall of an orchard which was at the back of Juliet's house. Here he had not been long,
- 143 When Viola made her second visit to Olivia, she found no difficulty in gaining access to her. Servants soon discover when their ladies delight to converse with handsome young messengers; and the instant Viola arrived, the gates were thrown wide open, and
- 142 Angelo, a man who bore the reputation of a saint in Vienna for his strict and rigid life, was chosen by the duke as a fit person to undertake this important charge; and when the duke imparted his design to lord Escalus, his chief counsellor, Escalus said,
- 141 "My youngest son, and now my only care, when he was eighteen years of age, began to be inquisitive after his mother and his brother, and often importuned me that he might take his attendant, the young slave, who had also lost his brother, and go in s
- 140 The good countess received her with a cordial welcome, as if she had been her son's own choice, and a lady of a high degree, and she spoke kind words, to comfort her for the unkind neglect of Bertram in sending his wife home on her bridal day alone.
- 139 The king, being tired with his journey, went early to bed, and in his state-room two grooms of his chamber (as was the custom) slept beside him. He had been unusually pleased with his reception, and had made presents, before he retired, to his princ.i.p.a
- 138 Then turning to his youngest daughter Cordelia, whom he called his joy, he asked what she had to say; thinking no doubt that she would glad his ears with the same loving speeches which her sisters had uttered, or rather that her expressions would be so mu
- 137 "Prithee, fair youth," said old Bellarius, "do not think us churls, nor measure our good minds by this rude place we live in. You are well encountered; it is almost night. You shall have better cheer before you depart, and thanks to stay an
- 136 "What does the poetry or the value of the ring signify?" said Nerissa."You swore to me, when I gave it to you, that you would keep it till the hour of death; and now you say you gave it to the lawyer's clerk.I know you gave it to a wom
- 135 Protheus was courting Silvia, and he was so much ashamed of being caught by his friend, that he was all at once seized with penitence and remorse; and he expressed such a lively sorrow for the injuries he had done to Valentine, that Valentine, whose natur
- 134 "Lend me the letter," said his father: "let me see what news.""There are no news, my lord," said Protheus, greatly alarmed, "but that he writes how well beloved he is of the duke of Milan, who daily graces him with favou
- 133 When they were rested after the fatigue of their journey, they began to like their new way of life, and almost fancied themselves the shepherd and shepherdess they feigned to be; yet sometimes Ganimed remembered he had once been the same lady Rosalind who
- 132 The prince had a half-brother, who came from the wars along with him to Messina. This brother (his name was Don John) was a melancholy, discontented man, whose spirits seemed to labour in the contriving of villanies. He hated the prince his brother, and h
- 131 "Mark your divorce, young sir," said the king, discovering himself.Polixenes then reproached his son for daring to contract himself to this low-born maiden, calling Perdita "shepherd's-brat, sheep-hook,"and other disrespectful nam
- 130 When Oberon had teased her for some time, he again demanded the changeling-boy; which she, ashamed of being discovered by her lord with her new favourite, did not dare to refuse him.Oberon, having thus obtained the little boy he had so long wished for to
- 129 The wood, in which Lysander and Hermia proposed to meet, was the favourite haunt of those little beings known by the name of _Fairies_.Oberon the king, and t.i.tania the queen, of the Fairies, with all their tiny train of followers, in this wood held thei
- 128 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.Vol. 3.by Charles and Mary Lamb.INTRODUCTION The present volume contains all the stories and verses for children which we know Charles and Mary Lamb to have written. The text is that of the first or second editions, as e
- 127 Mr. Irving was the Rev. Edward Irving (1792-1834), whom Lamb knew slightly and came greatly to admire.Page 302. XIII.--THAT YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG._New Monthly Magazine_, February, 1826.Compare "A Bachelor's Complaint." I cannot
- 126 and "The Surrender of Calais" were by George Colman the Younger; "The Children in the Wood," a favourite play of Lamb's, especially with Miss Kelly in it, was by Thomas Morton. Mrs. Bland was Maria Theresa Bland, _nee_ Romanzini,
- 125 Page 266, line 9. "_Guzman de Alfarache_." The Picaresque romance by Mateo Aleman--_Vida y Lechos del picaro Guzman de Alfarache_, Part I., 1599; Part II., 1605. It was translated into English by James Mabbe in 1622 as _The Rogue; or, The Life o
- 124 "All its beauty, all its pomp, decays Like _Courts removing_, or like _ending plays_."On February 7, 1804, was printed Lamb's "Epitaph on a young Lady who Lived Neglected and Died Obscure" (see Vol. IV.), and now and then we find
- 123 Page 242. SOME SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY._London Magazine_, September, 1823, where it was ent.i.tled "Nugae Criticae. By the Author of Elia. No. 1. Defence of the Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney." Signed "L." The second and last of the
- 122 Temple's essays, under the t.i.tle of _Miscellanea_, were published in 1680 and 1692; his works, in several volumes, between 1700 and 1709.The best-known essay is that on "Ancient and Modern Learning," but Lamb refers also to those "On
- 121 Page 217, line 22. _Glover ... Leonidas_. Richard Glover (1712-1785), the poet, author of _Leonidas_, 1737. I cannot find that he ever lived at Westbourne Green.Page 218, foot. _The old ballad_. The old ballad "Waly, Waly." This was among the po
- 120 Page 197, line 20. _Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton_... I cannot say where are Lamb's copies of Sidney and Fuller; but the British Museum has his Milton, rich in MS. notes, a two-volume edition, 1751. The Taylor, which Lamb acquired in 1798, is the 167
- 119 Page 185. STAGE ILLUSION._London Magazine_, August, 1825, where it was ent.i.tled "Imperfect Dramatic Illusion."This was, I think, Lamb's last contribution to the _London_, which had been growing steadily heavier and less hospitable to gaie
- 118 Page 172, line 7. _My late friend_. The opening sentences of this paragraph seem to have been deliberately modelled, as indeed is the whole essay, upon Sterne's character of Yorick in _Tristram Shandy_, Vol. I., Chapter XI.Page 172, line 12 from foot
- 117 Page 155, foot. _The gardens of Gray's Inn._ These gardens are said to have been laid out under the supervision of Bacon, who retained his chambers in the Inn until his death. As Dodd died in 1796 and Lamb wrote in 1822, it would be fully twenty-six
- 116 "N.B. I am glad to see Ja.n.u.s veering about to the old quarter. I feared he had been rust-bound."C. being asked why he did not like Gold's 'London' as well as ours--it was in poor S.'s time--replied-- "_--Because there
- 115 Page 123, last paragraph. _Sally W----r_. Lamb's Key gives "Sally Winter;" but as to who she was we have no knowledge.Page 123, end. _J.W._ James White. See next essay.Page 124. THE PRAISE OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS._London Magazine_, May, 1822, w
- 114 Page 111, line 1. _Garrick's Drury_. Garrick's Drury Lane was condemned in 1791, and superseded in 1794 by the new theatre, the burning of which in 1809 led to the _Rejected Addresses_. It has recently come to light that Lamb was among the compe
- 113 Page 98, line 21. _Lovel_. See below.Page 98, line 9 from foot. _Miss Blandy_. Mary Blandy was the daughter of Francis Blandy, a lawyer at Henley-on-Thames. The statement that she was to inherit 10,000 induced an officer in the marines, named Cranstoun, a
- 112 I dare say it is not in the scope of your Review--but if you could put it into any likely train, he would rejoyce. For alas! our boasted Humanity partakes of Vanity. As it is, he teazes me to death with chusing to suppose that I could get it into all the
- 111 A child's a plaything for an hour.Page 63, end of essay. "_Can I reproach her for it_." After these words, in the _London Magazine_, came:-- "These kind of complaints are not often drawn from me. I am aware that I am a fortunate, I mea
- 110 "ELIA TO HIS CORRESPONDENTS.--A Correspondent, who writes himself Peter Ball, or Bell,--for his hand-writing is as ragged as his manners--admonishes me of the old saying, that some people (under a courteous periphrasis I slur his less ceremonious epi
- 109 A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full a.s.surance given by looks.A portion of the poem is quoted in the Elia essay on "Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney."Page 37. MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST._London Magazine_, February, 1821.Mrs. Bat
- 108 Lamb's memory is preserved at Christ's Hospital by a medal which is given for the best English essays. It was first struck in 1875, the centenary of his birth.Page 26. THE TWO RACES OF MEN._London Magazine_, December, 1820.Writing to Wordsworth
- 107 Dec. 21. St. Thomas.Also the birthdays of the King and Queen, and the Prince and Princess of Wales: and the King's accession, proclamation, and coronation.In addition to the generous allowance of holidays above given the boys had every alternate Wedn
- 106 Page 12, line 11. _"Strike an abstract idea."_ I do not find this quotation--if it be one; but when John Lamb once knocked Hazlitt down, during an argument on pigments, Hazlitt refrained from striking back, remarking that he was a metaphysician
- 105 His last contribution to that magazine was dated September, 1826. In 1827 he was chiefly occupied in selecting Garrick play extracts for Hone's _Table Book_, at the British Museum, and for a while after that he seems to have been more interested in w
- 104 I give it here in full, merely remarking that the first numerals refer to the pages of the original edition of _Elia_ and those in brackets to the present volume:-- M. . . . Page 13 [7] Maynard, hang'd himself.G.D. . . " 21 [11] George Dyer, Poe
- 103 THE OLD ACTORS (_London Magazine_, October, 1822) I do not know a more mortifying thing than to be conscious of a foregone delight, with a total oblivion of the person and manner which conveyed it. In dreams I often stretch and strain after the countenanc
- 102 The elder Palmer (of stage-treading celebrity) commonly played Sir Toby in those days; but there is a solidity of wit in the jests of that half-Falstaff which he did not quite fill out. He was as much too showy as Moody (who sometimes took the part) was d
- 101 "It is my dog, sir. You must love him for my sake. Here, Test--Test--Test!""But he has bitten me.""Ay, that he is apt to do, till you are better acquainted with him. I have had him three years. He never bites me."_Yap, yap, y
- 100 The severest exaction surely ever invented upon the self-denial of poor human nature! This is to expect a gentleman to give a treat without partaking of it; to sit esurient at his own table, and commend the flavour of his venison upon the absurd strength
- 99 Nor were wanting faces of female ministrants,--stricken in years, as it might seem,--so dexterous were those heavenly attendants to counterfeit kindly similitudes of earth, to greet, with terrestrial child-rites the young _present_, which earth had made t
- 98 _Ash Wednesday_ got wedged in (as was concerted) betwixt _Christmas_ and _Lord Mayor's Days_. Lord! how he laid about him! Nothing but barons of beef and turkeys would go down with him--to the great greasing and detriment of his new sackcloth bib and
- 97 Reader, try it for once, only for one short twelvemonth.It was not every week that a fas.h.i.+on of pink stockings came up; but mostly, instead of it, some rugged, untractable subject; some topic impossible to be contorted into the risible; some feature,
- 96 Nor that he made the Floure-de-luce so 'fraid, Though strongly hedged of b.l.o.o.d.y Lions' paws That witty Lewis to him a tribute paid.Nor this, nor that, nor any such small cause-- But only, for this worthy knight durst prove To lose his crown
- 95 Next follow--a mournful procession--_suicidal faces_, saved against their wills from drowning; dolefully trailing a length of reluctant gratefulness, with ropy weeds pendant from locks of watchet hue-constrained Lazari--Pluto's half-subjects--stolen
- 94 Long after this little girl was grown an aged woman, I have seen some of these small parts, each making two or three pages at most, copied out in the rudest hand of the then prompter, who doubtless transcribed a little more carefully and fairly for the gr
- 93 I suppose it was the only occasion, upon which his own actual splendour at all corresponded with the world's notions on that subject. In homely cart, or travelling caravan, by whatever humble vehicle they chanced to be transported in less prosperous
- 92 A pretty severe fit of indisposition which, under the name of a nervous fever, has made a prisoner of me for some weeks past, and is but slowly leaving me, has reduced me to an incapacity of reflecting upon any topic foreign to itself. Expect no healthy c
- 91 In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from binding. Fielding, Smollet, Sterne, and all that cla.s.s of perpetually self-reproductive volumes--Great Nature's Stereotypes--we see them individually perish with less regret, because w
- 90 Up thither like aerial vapours fly Both all Stage things, and all that in Stage things Built their fond hopes of glory, or lasting fame?All the unaccomplish'd works of Authors' hands, Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mix'd, d.a.m.n'd u
- 89 The solitude of childhood is not so much the mother of thought, as it is the feeder of love, and silence, and admiration, So strange a pa.s.sion for the place possessed me in those years, that, though there lay--I shame to say how few roods distant from t
- 88 I come back to my cage and my restraint the fresher and more healthy for it. I wear my shackles more contentedly for having respired the breath of an imaginary freedom. I do not know how it is with others, but I feel the better always for the perusal of o
- 87 Another way (for the ways they have to accomplish so desirable a purpose are infinite) is, with a kind of innocent simplicity, continually to mistake what it was which first made their husband fond of you. If an esteem for something excellent in your mora
- 86 Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy a.
- 85 Now albeit Mr. Read boasteth, not without reason, that his is the _only Salopian house;_ yet be it known to thee, reader--if thou art one who keepest what are called good hours, thou art haply ignorant of the fact--he hath a race of industrious imitators,
- 84 A short form upon these occasions is felt to want reverence; a long one, I am afraid, cannot escape the charge of impertinence. I do not quite approve of the epigrammatic conciseness with which that equivocal wag (but my pleasant school-fellow) C.V.L., wh
- 83 confronting, with ma.s.sy contrast, the lighter, older, more fantastically shrouded one, named of Harcourt, with the cheerful Crown-office Row (place of my kindly engendure), right opposite the stately stream, which washes the garden-foot with her yet sca
- 82 Very quick at inventing an argument, or detecting a sophistry, he is incapable of attending _you_ in any chain of arguing. Indeed he makes wild work with logic; and seems to jump at most admirable conclusions by some process, not at all akin to it. Conson
- 81 We know one another at first sight. There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must be content to rank) which in its const.i.tution is essentially anti-Caledonian. The owners of the sort of faculties I allude to, have minds rather suggest
- 80 How far the followers of these good men in our days have kept to the primitive spirit, or in what proportion they have subst.i.tuted formality for it, the Judge of Spirits can alone determine. I have seen faces in their a.s.semblies, upon which the dove s
- 79 I deny not, that in the opening of a concert, I have experienced something vastly lulling and agreeable:--afterwards followeth the languor, and the oppression. Like that disappointing book in Patmos; or, like the comings on of melancholy, described by Bur
- 78 Hark, the c.o.c.k crows, and yon bright star Tells us, the day himself's not far; And see where, breaking from the night, He gilds the western hills with light.With him old Ja.n.u.s doth appear, Peeping into the future year, With such a look as seems
- 77 [Footnote 1: Recollections of Christ's Hospital.][Footnote 2: One or two instances of lunacy, or attempted suicide, accordingly, at length convinced the governors of the impolicy of this part of the sentence, and the midnight torture to the spirits w
- 76 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.Volume 2.by Charles Lamb, et al.INTRODUCTION This volume contains the work by which Charles Lamb is best known and upon which his fame will rest--_Elia_ and _The Last Essays of Elia_.Although one essay is as early as 181
- 75 The Open Road The Friendly Town Her Infinite Variety Good Company The Gentlest Art The Second Post A Swan and Her Friends A Wanderer in London A Wanderer in Holland A Wanderer in Paris Highways and Byways in Suss.e.x Annes Terrible Good Nature The Slowcoa
- 74 John Wilkes (1727-1797) of _The North Briton_. Barry Cornwall writes in his Memoir of Lamb: "I remember that, at one of the monthly magazine dinners, when John Wilkes was too roughly handled, Lamb quoted the story (not generally known) of his replyin
- 73 Page 400, line 4 from foot. _Will Dockwray._ I have not been able to find anything about this Will Dockwray. Such Ware records as I have consulted are silent concerning him. There was a Joseph Dockwray, a rich Quaker maltster, at Ware in the eighteenth ce
- 72 Page 388, line 15 from foot. _Sampson ... Dalilah._ The letters contain an earlier account of the picture. Writing to Hazlitt in 1805 Lamb says: "I have seen no pictures of note since, except Mr. Dawe's gallery. It is curious to see how differen
- 71 Page 380, line 9. _Burking._ After Burke and Hare, who suffocated their victims and sold them to the hospitals for dissection. Burke was executed in January, 1829.Page 381. ESTIMATE OF DE FOE'S SECONDARY NOVELS.This criticism was written for Wilson&#
- 70 MY DEAR FRIEND, I thank my literary fortune that I am not reduced, like many better wits, to barter dedications, for the hope or promise of patronage, with some nominally great man; but that where true affection points, and honest respect, I am free to gr
- 69 The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play, He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beech; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud, With all the prettiness of feigned alarm, And anger insi
- 68 In column 55 of the _Table Book_, Vol. II., is Lamb's sonnet to Miss Kelly, and in column 68 his explanation that Moxon probably sent it.To Hone's _Year Book_, 1831, Lamb contributed no original prose that is identifiable. On April 30, however,
- 67 Page 339, line 33. _Mr. Grimaldi_. See the note on page 521. Grimaldi's son Joseph S. Grimaldi made his debut as Man Friday in 1814 and died in 1832. The Jumpers were a Welsh sect of Calvinist Methodists.Page 340, line 7. _Mr. Elliston_. Robert Willi
- 66 Page 329. REFLECTIONS IN THE PILLORY._London Magazine_, March, 1825. Not reprinted by Lamb.The editor's note is undoubtedly Lamb's, as is, of course, the whole imaginary story. It must have been about this time that Lamb was writing his "Od
- 65 Page 310. UNITARIAN PROTESTS._London Magazine_, February, 1825. Not reprinted by Lamb.The marriages of Unitarian and other Dissenters had to be solemnised in English established churches until the end of 1836. Lord Hardwicke's Act of 1753, in force,
- 64 Whittington and his Cat are a fine hallucination for Mr. Lamb's historic Muse, and we believe he never heartily forgave a certain writer who took the subject of Guy Faux out of his hands.A few years afterwards Lamb told Carlyle he regretted that the
- 63 I felt flattered by the being mingled with the other of Lamb's friends under the initials of my name. I mention it as an anecdote which shows that Lamb's reputation was spread even among lawyers, that a 4 guinea brief was brought to me by an Att
- 62 Is there a sound religious feeling in your Essays, or is there not?And what is a sound religious feeling? You declare yourself a Unitarian; but, as a set-off to that heterodoxy, you vaunt your bosom-friends.h.i.+p with T. N. T., "a little tainted wit
- 61 Page 239. SIR THOMAS MORE._The Indicator_, December 20, 1820. Signed ****. Leigh Hunt introduced the article in these words:-- The author of the _Table-Talk_ in our last [see note on p. 466] has obliged us with the following pungent morsels of Sir Thomas
- 60 Page 222, foot. "_Belles without Beaux._" This was probably, says Genest, another version of the French piece from which "Ladies at Home; or, Gentlemen, we can do without You" (by J. G. Millingen, and produced also in 1819) was taken.