Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
fear cheer thinking
Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.
thanksgiving gluttony occasions
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
dream sweet home
Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
friendship names sound
Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
love stars fall
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
smoking sake dies
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
love
It is good to love the unknown.
disappointment feelings curiosity
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
prayer giving-up book
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
book mind
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
men recipes dull
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
blessed veins irony
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
thinking wife childhood
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
doors sound rural-life
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.