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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 160 The King lays on his blows so stout, The Tarts for fear come tumbling out O King! be merciful as just, You'll beat poor Pambo into dust [Ill.u.s.tration: _The Knave of Hearts_]How like he looks to a dog that begs In abject sort upon two legs!Good Mr.
- 161 BROTHER Well, soon (I say) I'll let it loose; But, sister, you talk like a goose, There's no soul in a fly.SISTER It has a form and fibres fine, Were temper'd by the hand divine Who dwells beyond the sky.Look, brother, you have hurt its win
- 162 REPENTANCE AND RECONCILIATION JANE Mamma is displeased and looks very grave, And I own, brother, I was to blame Just now when I told her I wanted to have, Like Miss Lydia, a very fine _name_.'Twas foolish, for, Robert, Jane sounds very well, When mam
- 163 Smiling river, smiling river, On thy bosom sun-beams play; Though they're fleeting and retreating, Thou hast more deceit than they.In thy channel, in thy channel, Choak'd with ooze and grav'lly stones, Deep immersed and unhea.r.s.ed, Lies y
- 164 "I said, 'Be friends with me, dear Will;'We quarrell'd, Sir, at the church door,-- Though he cried, 'Hush, don't speak, be still,'Yet I repeated these words o'er "Sev'n or eight times, I have no doubt.But
- 165 If Nature, who allots our cup, Than her has made you stronger, wiser; It is that you, as you grow up, Should be her champion, her adviser.It is the law that Hand intends, Which fram'd diversity of s.e.x; The man the woman still defends, The manly boy
- 166 Here's Mamma's work-bag, now I will engage To whisk this little bag into a cage; And now, my pretty Parrot, get you in it, Another change I'll shew you in a minute.""O fie, you naughty child, what have you done?There never was so
- 167 Now dust and sun does every one Most terribly annoy; Complaints begun, soon every one Elbows his neighbour boy.Not now the joyous laugh goes round, We shout not now huzzah; A sadder group may not be found Than we returning are.THE ORANGE The month was Jun
- 168 You pray that your "trespa.s.ses may be forgiven, As you forgive those that are done unto you;"Before this you say to the G.o.d that's in heaven, Consider the words which you speak. Are they true?If any one has in the past time offended Us
- 169 THE MEN AND WOMEN, AND THE MONKEYS A FABLE When beasts by words their meanings could declare, Some well-drest men and women did repair To gaze upon two monkeys at a fair: And one who was the spokesman in the place Said, in their count'nance you might
- 170 In her juvenile anger, wherever she found, She pluck'd, and she pull'd, and she tore; The poor pa.s.sive suff'rers bestrew'd all the ground; Not a weed of them all she forbore.At length 'twas her chance on some nettles to light (T
- 171 Her handmaids they are not a few: Sincerity that's ever true, And Prompt Obedience always new, Urbanity that ever smiles, And Frankness that ne'er useth wiles, And Friendliness that ne'er beguiles, And Firmness that is always ready To make
- 172 That lordly creature next to him A Lion is. Survey each limb.Observe the texture of his claws, The ma.s.sy thickness of those jaws; His mane that sweeps the ground in length, Like Samson's locks, betok'ning strength.In force and swiftness he exc
- 173 To this the bird seven words did say: "Why not do it, Sir, to-day?"HOME DELIGHTS To operas and b.a.l.l.s my cousins take me, And fond of plays my new-made friend would make me.In summer season, when the days are fair, In my G.o.dmother's co
- 174 Said he to Orme, "This African It seems is not by you approv'd; I'll find a way, young Englishman, To have this prejudice remov'd."Nearer acquaintance possibly May make you tolerate his hue; At least 'tis my intent to try Wha
- 175 For am not I a Philistine?What strength may be compar'd to mine?"Chuse ye a man of greatest might: And if he conquer me in fight, Then we will all servants be, King of Israel, unto thee.But if I prove the victor, then Shall Saul and all his arme
- 176 PRINCE DORUS OR FLATTERY PUT OUT OF COUNTENANCE A POETICAL VERSION OF AN ANCIENT TALK In days of yore, as Ancient Stories tell, A King in love with a great Princess fell.Long at her feet submiss the Monarch sigh'd, While she with stern repulse his su
- 177 PRINCE "My Nose, Ma'am!"FAIRY "No offence.-- The King your Father was a man of sense, A handsome man (but lived not to be old) And had a Nose cast in the common mould.Ev'n I myself, that now with age am grey, Was thought to have s
- 178 "_Our love to all_."I had almost forgot, My part of the Preface begins in the middle of a sentence, in last but one page, after a colon, thus:-- ":--_which if they be happily so done_, &c. (see page 2, line 7 from foot).The former part hath
- 179 Page 316. MRS. LEICESTER'S SCHOOL.This charming little book was published by Mrs. G.o.dwin at the end of 1808, dated 1809, with no author's name attached. Besides, however, ample internal evidence as to its authors.h.i.+p, there are many referen
- 180 Page 384. X.--_Arabella Hardy_. "The Sea Voyage."By Charles Lamb. Nothing else that Lamb wrote is quite so far from the ordinary run of his thoughts; and nothing has, I think, more charm.Page 389. The King and Queen of Hearts This is probably th
- 181 Page 413. _The Boy and Snake_.(?) Mary Lamb. This poem was the subject of the frontispiece to Vol. I. of the original edition. According to a letter from Jean D.Montgomery printed in _The County Gentleman_ in August, 1907, there is extant in Kirkcudbright
- 182 (?) Mary Lamb.Page 435. _The Orange_.(?) Charles Lamb.Page 436. _The Young Letter-writer_.(?) Mary Lamb.Page 437. _The Three Friends_.By Charles Lamb. Reprinted by him in his _Works_, 1818, with the text now given, which differs very slightly from that of
- 183 Page 462. _Charity_. (?) Mary Lamb. Page 463. _My Birth-day_. (?) Mary Lamb. Page 464. _The Beasts in the Tower_. (?) Charles Lamb. There is a hint of Blakes "Tiger, tiger burning bright" (which Lamb so greatly admired) in-- That cat-like beast
- 184 Reprinted by Lamb, with Mary Lambs name to it, in the _Works_, 1818, the text of which is here given. This was the last poem in _Poetry for Children_. Page 488, _Summer Friends_. By Mary Lamb. This poem was sent by Robert Lloyd to his wife in April, 1809,
- 185 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV.by Charles and Mary Lamb.INTRODUCTION The earliest poem in this volume bears the date 1794, when Lamb was nineteen, the latest 1834, the year of his death; so that it covers an even longer period of his life than Vol.
- 186 When her son, her Douglas died, To the steep rock's fearful side Fast the frantic Mother hied-- O'er her blooming warrior dead Many a tear did Scotland shed, And shrieks of long and loud lament From her Grampian hills she sent.Like one awakening
- 187 SONNET _(Summer, 1795)_ The Lord of Life shakes off his drowsihed, And 'gins to sprinkle on the earth below Those rays that from his shaken locks do flow; Meantime, by truant love of rambling led, I turn my back on thy detested walls, Proud City! and
- 188 TO CHARLES LLOYD A stranger, and alone, I past those scenes We past so late together; and my heart Felt something like desertion, when I look'd Around me, and the well-known voice of friend Was absent, and the cordial look was there No more to smile
- 189 Ghost-like, I paced round the haunts of my childhood.Earth seemed a desart I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces.Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling?So might we talk o
- 190 In a costly palace, when the brave gallants dine, They have store of good venison, with old canary wine, With singing and music to heighten the cheer; Coa.r.s.e bits, with grudging, are the pauper's best fare.In a costly palace Youth is still carest
- 191 A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO (1805) May the Babylonish curse Strait confound my stammering verse, If I can a pa.s.sage see In this word-perplexity, Or a fit expression find, Or a language to my mind, (Still the phrase is wide or scant) To take leave of thee, GRE
- 192 LINES _Suggested by a Picture of Two Females by Lionardo da Vinci._ (_By Mary Lamb_. 1804) The Lady Blanch, regardless of all her lovers' fears, To the Urs'line convent hastens, and long the Abbess hears."O Blanch, my child, repent ye of th
- 193 THE FAMILY NAME What reason first imposed thee, gentle name, Name that my father bore, and his sire's sire, Without reproach? we trace our stream no higher; And I, a childless man, may end the same.Perchance some shepherd on Lincolnian plains, In man
- 194 IN THE ALb.u.m OF MISS ------ I Such goodness in your face doth s.h.i.+ne, With modest look, without design, That I despair, poor pen of mine Can e'er express it.To give it words I feebly try; My spirits fail me to supply Befitting language for'
- 195 ANGEL HELP[5](1827) This rare tablet doth include Poverty with Sanct.i.tude.Past midnight this poor Maid hath spun, And yet the work is not half done, Which must supply from earning scant A feeble bed-rid parent's want.Her sleep-charged eyes exemptio
- 196 Vex not, maidens, nor regret Thus to part with Margaret.Charms like your's can never stay Long within doors; and one day You'll be going.TO A YOUNG FRIEND _On Her Twenty-First Birth-Day_ Crown me a cheerful goblet, while I pray A blessing on thy
- 197 THE GIPSY'S MALISON (1829) "Suck, baby, suck, mothers love grows by giving, Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting; Black manhood comes, when riotous guilty living Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting."Kiss, baby, k
- 198 Ne'er by Christians be forgot-- Envied be--this Martyr's lot._Lawton_, who these _names_ combinest, Aim to emulate their praises; Women were they, yet divinest Truths they taught; and story raises O'er their mouldering bones a Tomb, Not to
- 199 _Of the Parish of Saint Margaret's, Westminster, Watchman_ For much good-natured verse received from thee, A loving verse take in return from me."Good morrow to my masters," is your cry; And to our David "twice as good," say I.Not
- 200 Incompetent my song to raise To its just height thy praise, Great Mill!That by thy motion proper (No thanks to wind, or sail, or working rill) Grinding that stubborn corn, the Human will, Turn'st out men's consciences, That were begrimed before,