From a drawing by Robert Hancock] POEMS AND PLAYS BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB INTRODUCTION The earliest poem in this volume bears the date 1794, when Lamb was nineteen, the latest 1834, the year of his death; so that it covers an even longer period of his life than Vol.

What sort is the lamb? MRS.

Both boys entered at the same timeon July 17, 1782: Coleridge was then nearly ten, Lamb was seven and a half.

I was employed in the East India House at the time Charles Lamb was a clerk there.

Lamb had never become a Grecian, having an impediment in his speech which made it impossible that he should take orders, the natural fate of Grecians, with profit.

That supreme moral beauty, of which all earthly beauty, all nature, all art, all poetry, all music, are but phantoms and parables, hints and hopes, dim reflected rays of the clear light of that everlasting day, of which it is writtenthat "the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

Mr. Lamb is a general favourite with those who know him.

Mr. Lamb is a good judge of prints and pictures.

When Lamb was fifty years of age the East India Company, led partly by his literary fame following his first Essays of Elia, and partly by his thirty-three years of faithful service, granted him a comfortable pension; and happy as a boy turned loose from school he left India House forever to give himself up to literary work.

"Charles Lamb. Sheep, leather, and religion were the principal things which George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, looked after.

Lamb had never become a Grecian, having an impediment in his speech which made it impossible that he should take orders, the natural fate of Grecians, with profit.

The evidence that the Charles Lamb who conveyed the property in 1815 is Elia himself is overwhelming.

Lamb was not the only critic of Mr. Bodkin's zeal.

Lamb was London born and bred.

Small politics are for the most part kept out of Man's volumes, which are high-spirited rather than witty, but this punning epigram (of which Lamb was an admirer) on Lord Spencer and Lord Sandwich may be quoted: Two Lords whose names if I should quote, Some folks might call me sinner: The one invented half a coat, The other half a dinner.

Lamb was a lifelong friend of Coleridge, and an admirer and defender of the poetic creed of Wordsworth; but while the latter lived apart from men, content with nature and with reading an occasional moral lesson to society, Lamb was born and lived in the midst of the London streets.

Mary Lamb was a bridesmaid at the Norris's wedding and after the ceremony accompanied the bride and bridegroom to Richmond for the day.

Lamb was not a politician, but he had strongalmost passionateprejudices against certain statesmen and higher persons, which impelled him now and then to sarcastic verse.

I've a deal of penetration in judging character, and I tell you Van Bahr Lamb is a fool.

Writing of his troubles in Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S.T. Coleridge, Allsop says: "Charles Lamb, Charles and Mary Lamb, 'union is partition,' were never wanting in the hour of need.

"Lamb," wrote C. V. Le Grice, a schoolmate often mentioned in essay and letter, "was an amiable, gentle boy, very sensible and keenly observing, indulged by his schoolfellows and by his master on account of his infirmity of speech....

John Lamb, Lamb's father, who is described as a scrivener in Charles's Christ's Hospital application form, was Salt's right-hand man, not only in business, but privately, while Mrs. Lamb acted as housekeeper and possibly as cook.

At last, from the style and manner of conveying his ideas and opinions on different subjects, my brother began to suspect that Lamb was the individual so widely sought for, and wrote some lines to him, anonymously, sending them by post to his residence, with the hope of sifting him on the subject.

The lambs in the mead are at play, 'Neath a hurdle the shepherd's asleep; From height to height of the day The sunbeams sweep.

The gentle Charles Lamb was very fond of the country all round Waltham Abbey, especially Broxbourne and Amwell.