Category: Biographies
_During the half-century since the death of Charles Lamb, an immense mass of matter has been gathered about him and about his writings. In burrowing among the treasures and the rubbish of this mound, I have been struck by the total absence of what may be called a topographical...
The two lads--along with Middleton, then a Grecian in the school, afterward Bishop of Calcutta--figure together in the fine group in silver which passes from ward to ward each y...
6. Part 6But of all this the subject of this fervent, true tribute tells us no word. He prattled in print as freely and as frankly as Montaigne, though with none of the sentimental shame...
3. Part 3And there was solace for all his privations to be found in his beloved books, and he “browsed” in many a field. “I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, no...
5. Part 5Such were the tremulous nerves which seemed to need the stimulus of alcohol, and which were so easily swayed and upset by it. The lachrymose and dolorous tones of Respectability...
4. Part 4“_Stat magni nominis umbra_” is Lucan’s stately phrase, to be aptly applied, in its best and original sense, to almost every one of this illustrious group. Yet, lofty as they lo...
7. Part 7Amid all these added adversities, he tried, with his cheerful and cheering courage, to make the best of it all. He found compensation in that they were “emancipated from the Wes...
1. Part 1_During the half-century since the death of Charles Lamb, an immense mass of matter has been gathered about him and about his writings. In burrowing among the treasures and the...
10. Part 101877. Poetry for Children, by Charles and Mary Lamb. To which are added “Prince Dorus,” and some uncollected Poems by Charles Lamb. Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by Richard He...
8. Part 8_Note._ Coleridge says in the Preface, “The Effusions signed C. L. were written by Mr. Charles Lamb, of the India House--independently of the signature their superior merit woul...
9. Part 9_Note._ On pages 428-9, Vol. III., appears Lamb’s criticism on “De Foe’s Works of Genius.” [Mr. Wilson says: “The following remarks upon De Foe’s Works of Genius are from the pe...
11. Part 11Lamb (Charles). _Overland Monthly_ (N. S.), Vol. IV. p. 284, H. Colbach.--_The Academy_, Vol. XXI. p. 168, R. C. Browne.--_The Athenæum_, Vol. II. p. 566 (1886), A. Ainger.--_Ec...