Charles lamb quotes

Charles Lamb (10 February1775 – 27 December1834) was an English essayist and poet, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.

Quotes

• Severe and saintly righteousness
  Composed the clear white bridal dress;
  Jesus, the Son of Heaven's high King
  Bought with his blood the marriage ring
  • A Vision Of Repentance, as quoted in Works of Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

• In heav'n, the saint nor pity feels, nor care,
  For those thus sentenced - pity might disturb
  The delicate sense and most divine repose
  Of spiritus angelical
  Blessed be God,
  The measure of his judgments is not fixed
  By man's erroneous standard. He discerns
  No such inordinate difference and vast
  Betwixt the sinner and the saint, to doom
  Such disproportion'd fates.
  Compared with him,
  No man on earth is holy called: they best
  Stand in his sight approved, who at his feet
  Their little crowns of virtue cast, and yield,
  To him of his own works the praise, his due.
  • Composed at midnight, as quoted
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    Charles Lamb was an English literary figure from the late 18^th and early 19^th century who was described by his biographer, E V Lucas, as “the most lovable figure in English literature”.  He was a contemporary of famous English writers Samuel T Coleridge and William Wordsworth and Lamb collaborated with both at different times on the publication of his poems and enjoyed lifelong friendships with both men.  Lamb himself was known more for his essay writing, for various publications, and he produced these under the pen-name “Elia”.  He never married and lived a good deal of his life with his sister Mary who was eleven years his senior.  The pair worked together on collections of essays about William Shakespeare including their book aimed at children called Tales from Shakespeare.

    Charles Lamb was born in London in  February 1775 into a large family of brothers and sisters but, typical of those times, most of the children did not live beyond infancy.  Their father worked as clerk to a barrister in the Inner Temple, London and it was here that the young Charles, accompanied by h

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    Charles Lamb

    English essayist, poet, and antiquarian (1775–1834)

    For other uses, see Charles Lamb (disambiguation).

    Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

    Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".^[1]

    Youth and schooling

    Lamb was born in London, the son of John Lamb (c. 1725–1799) and Elizabeth (died 1796), née Field.^[2] Lamb had an elder brother, also John, and sister, Mary; four other siblings did not survive infancy. John Lamb (Lamb's father) was a lawyer's clerk^[3] and spent most of his professional life as the assistant to barrister Samuel Salt, who