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The Best Letters of Charles Lam

The Best Letters of Charles Lam

Lamb, Charles

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ISBN10: 1547278943
ISBN13: 9781547278947
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 17 2017
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
No writer, perhaps, since the days of Dr. Johnson has been oftener brought before us in biographies, essays, letters, etc., than Charles Lamb. His stammering speech, his gaiter-clad legs, -almost immaterial legs, Hood called them, -his frail wisp of a body, topped by a head worthy of Aristotle, his love of punning, of the Indian weed, and, alas! of the kindly production of the juniper-berry (he was not, he owned, constellated under Aquarius), his antiquarianism of taste, and relish of the crotchets and whimsies of authorship, are as familiar to us almost as they were to the group he gathered round him Wednesdays at No. 4, Inner Temple Lane, where a clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game awaited them. Talfourd has unctuously celebrated Lamb's Wednesday Night

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