Literary Sketches and Letters
by Charles Lamb
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ISBN13: 9780217507424
Paperback|9780217507424
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FlNAL MEMORlALS CHARLES LAMB. CHAPTER I. LETTERS OF LAMB TO COLERIDGE, IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1796. In the year 1795, Charles Lamb resided with his father, mother, and sister, in lodgings at No. 7, Little Queen Street, Holborn. The father was rapidly sinking into dotage; the mother suffered under an infirmity which deprived her of the use of her limbs; and the sister not only undertook the office of daily and nightly attendance on her mother, but sought to add by needlework to their slender resources. Their income then consisted of an annuity which Mr. Lamb the elder derived from the old Bencher, Mr. Salt, whom he had faithfully served for many years; Charles's salary, which, being that of a clerk of three years' standing in the India House, could have been but scanty; and a small payment made for board by an old maiden aunt, who resided with them. In this year Lamb, being just twenty years of age, began to write verses, ?partly incited by the example of hisonly friend, Coleridge, whom he regarded with as much reverence as affection, and partly inspired by an attachment to a young lady residing in the neighborhood of Islington, who is commemorated in his early verses as the fair-haired maid. How his love prospered we cannot ascertain; but we know how nobly that love, and all hope of the earthly blessings attendant on such an affection, were resigned on the catastrophe which darkened the following year. In the meantime, his youth was lonely?rendered more so by the recollection of the society of Coleridge, who had just left London?of Coleridge in the first bloom of life and genius, unshaded by the mysticism which it afterwards glorified? full of boundless ambition, love, and hope There was a tendency to insanity in his family, which had been more than once deve...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217507424 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217507425 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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