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"The red-letter days now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."
Charles Lamb / Oxford in the Vacation.
Oxford in the Vacation.
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"For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord."
Charles Lamb / Oxford in the Vacation.
Oxford in the Vacation.
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"A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game."
Charles Lamb / Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist.
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist.
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"Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune."
Charles Lamb / A Chapter on Ears.
A Chapter on Ears.
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"Not if I know myself at all."
Charles Lamb / The Old and New Schoolmaster.
The Old and New Schoolmaster.
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"It is good to love the unknown."
Charles Lamb / Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day.
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"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."
Charles Lamb / My First Play.
My First Play.
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"Presents, I often say, endear absents."
Charles Lamb / A Dissertation upon Roast Pig.
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig.
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"It argues an insensibility."
Charles Lamb / A Dissertation upon Roast Pig.
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig.
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"Books which are no books."
Charles Lamb / Detached Thoughts on Books.
Detached Thoughts on Books.
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"Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it."
Charles Lamb / Amicus Redivivus.
Amicus Redivivus.
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"Gone before To that unknown and silent shore."
Charles Lamb / Hester. Stanza 7.
Hester. Stanza 7.
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"I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days. All, all are gone, the old familiar faces."
Charles Lamb / Old Familiar Faces.
Old Familiar Faces.
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"For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die."
Charles Lamb / A Farewell to Tobacco.
A Farewell to Tobacco.
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"And half had staggered that stout Stagirite."
Charles Lamb / Written at Cambridge.
Written at Cambridge.
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"Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . . . . Sabbathless Satan!"
Charles Lamb / Work.
Work.
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"I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves."
Charles Lamb / To the Editor of the Every-Day Book.
To the Editor of the Every-Day Book.
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"He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society."
Charles Lamb / Captain Starkey.
Captain Starkey.
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"Neat, not gaudy."
Charles Lamb / Letter to Wordsworth, 1806.
Letter to Wordsworth, 1806.
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"Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!"
Charles Lamb / Lamb's Suppers.
Lamb's Suppers.
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"Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.""
Charles Lamb / Autobiographical Recollections. (Leslie.)
Autobiographical Recollections. (Leslie.)
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