You are here: Home / Charles & Mary Lamb n. 1. State of being lost in thought; also a musing. 2. A fanciful product of the mind; a theory or notion, usually strange or impractical. What a great word. It come to us this morning via “Dream-Children: A Reverie” by… wait for it… Charles Lamb! It’s one of the pieces in The Essays of
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I thought this was charming in its way. Our Old Gentleman, in order to be exclusively himself, must be either a widower or a bachelor. Suppose the former. We do not mention his precise age, which would be invidious…. In his pockets are two handkerchiefs (one for the neck at night-time), his spectacles, and his
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that takes nothing away from her later writings. This is the sort of rabbit-hole trivial you’re missing if you’re not keeping up with the Daily Readings at multi-authored The Old Books Blog!
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He gave them a brief relation of all the adventures that had befallen him. This is going to be a fun book to read. First published in 1808, mine is the Platt & Peck Co. edition from 1902. We’ll read along together in the next few days. Consider hitting the tip jar. What other blog
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Did you see that? Yesterday was the birthday of Charles Lamb! As much as we’ve been through with Charles and Mary, you’d have thought I knew that.
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I shall return to this tomorrow.
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I need barley! This means I need to travel to the really big city. Which means I’ll be back later. Hopefully, The Adventures of Ulysses will have arrived by the time I return and we can talk about that. There’s much to say.
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I had to look something up and figured that infallible source would do just fine. Joyce first encountered the figure of Odysseus/Ulysses in Charles Lamb‘s Adventures of Ulysses, an adaptation of the Odyssey for children, which seems to have established the Latin name in Joyce’s mind. At school he wrote an essay on the character, titled “My Favourite Hero”.[6][7] Joyce told Frank Budgen that
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Long time readers will recall that I like Charles and Mary Lamb’s writings. I am especially fond of Tales from Shakespeare (1807), a collection of the comedies and tragedies written in narrative form for children, most especially for girls who at the time had limited access to books compared to boys. Mary wrote the comedies.
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I will have more to say about this soon, but I got a new (!) book yesterday, The Devil Kissed Her: The Story of Mary Lamb (2004). For a new book, it’s not bad. The Bookish Problem reminds me a bit of Mary. Both from Ace of Spades Headquarters Sunday Morning Book Thread.
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Perhaps the only actual parallel to Montaigne in literature is Lamb. A. As I type this SEC football will begin in 10 minutes. That’s enough to make this an outstanding day. 2. I am looking for something and find myself in The Encyclopedia Britannica (1962) reading that sentence. How could it possibly get any better?
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Ace of Spades Headquarters Sunday Morning Book Thread. I add, that at my recommendation the Sunday Morning Book Thread features a couple of paragraphs on Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. Here’s my post regarding the entry on Mary Lamb at that infallible source with a bonus book review of Mad Mary, a supposed
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Biography “It is a very consoling fact that so many books about real lives—biographies, autobiographies, letters etc.—give one such an impression of happiness, in spite of the tragedies they all contain. What could be more tragic than the main outlines of Lamb’s or Cowper’s lives? But as soon as you open the letters of either,
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Daily Reading June 3 Hood’s “It Was Not in the Winter” Lamb’s Letters Sweet. It was not in the Winter It was not in the Winter Our loving lot was cast; It was the Time of Roses,— We plucked them as we passed! [more] And now to Charles Lamb who, I may have mentioned, I
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If I were the curious sort, I would research how well Lowell fares in English Literature Class today. Thank God I have no curiosity this fine day. Daily Readings May 2nd Lowell’s “To the Dandelion“ Lamb’s “A Farewell to Tobacco“ “She is Going“ “To the Dandelion” (James Russell Lowell) comes to us from Volume XIV
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Today we turn the page on a new week in our Guide to Daily Reading (1925). I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner… Why have we none for books? Charles Lamb Nothing happened today, i.e., no one was born, died,
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Another uneventful day in The Guide to Reading: The Pocket University Volume XXIII (1925). Enjoy the quiet today because it’s about to get real. Guide to Daily Reading 4/13/20 Burns’ “To a Mountain Daisy” Lamb’s “Imperfect Sympathies“ To a Mountain Daisy On Turning One Down with the Plow, in April, 1786 Wee, modest, crimson-tippèd flow’r,
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It’s Charles Lamb! I am a fan of Charles & Mary Lamb. I am particularly fond of Tales from Shakspeare (not a typo, that’s how it was spelled back in ancient times). I could go on and on about the Lambs, their works and letters, their lives. Unfortunately, I squandered my going on and on
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So I’m reading a biography from an archived Wikipedia article. Downloaded it to Evernote in 2016 but had not until just now read it all the way through. Along the way, I’m saying things like, “Hum. Never heard that before.” And, “Really???” Then I get to the end. TWO FREAKING REFERENCES??? WTF??? AND– the one
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