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
glasses imagination quality
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
book
Books which are no books.
book taught looks
My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
eye heaven earth
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
years heaven spheres
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
body sometimes speak
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
book reading originality
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
society might ornaments
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
people superstitions sides
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
eye men space
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
doe tease trumpets
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
retirement garden purpose
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
book doe favour
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.