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17977Should he go on acting upon this theory,adds Elia,"which of our shelves is safe?"
17977Ai n''t you mightily moped on the banks of the Cam?
17977But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes?
17977But wouldst thou know the beauty of holiness?
17977Do you know anything about the unfortunate relic?"
17977Fifth, Whether pure intelligences can love?
17977First, Whether God loves a lying angel better than a true man?
17977Fourth, Whether the higher order of Seraphim illuminati ever sneer?
17977Had you not better come and set up here?
17977Has it not reach''d you, that you are silent about it?
17977Have you trampled on the Cross yet?
17977Second, Whether the Archangel Uriel could affirm an untruth?
17977Third, Whether honesty be an angelic virtue, or not rather to be reckoned among those qualities which the school men term_ virtutes minus splendidæ_?
17977What can a mortal desire more for his bi- parted nature?
17977What gesture shall we appropriate to this?
17977What has the voice or the eye to do with such things?
17977What was it then?
17977Whether an immortal and amenable soul may not come to be condemned at last, and the man never suspect it before hand?
17977Why is it almost everywhere vanished?
17977Will they, have they, did they, come safe?
17977Would his Schoolmistress, the prettiest of poems, have been better, if he had used quite the Goody''s own language?
17977Yet do you?
17977You have seen''Beauties of Shakspeare''?
17977and if he could, whether he would?
6166And many friends?
6166Charles,said Coleridge to Lamb,"I think you have heard me preach?"
6166Have you read the noble dedication of Irving''s Missionary Sermons?
6166How could you permit him to go on and weary himself?
6166We have a sure hot joint on Sundays,he writes,"and when had we better?"
6166What did you give for it?
6166----[?]
6166And how, indeed, could it be otherwise?
6166And what can man do more?
6166Have I not enough, without your mountains?
6166Have you seen it?"
6166He had been invited by a gentleman in the Temple, Mr. R----( Robinson?
6166He said to me one day, with a face of great solemnity,"What must have been that man''s feelings, who thought himself_ the first deist?_"...
6166He speaks:"Well, boys, how are you?
6166I come, my dear-- Where is the Indigo Sale Book?
6166In writing to Coleridge about his house, which was"smoky,"he inquires,"Have you cured it?
6166Is it possible that the imitations could have been mistaken for originals?
6166Lamb?"
6166Must I write with pen unwilling, And describe those graces killing, Rightly, which I never saw?
6166Need I go over the names?
6166Once, when walking with his sister through some churchyard, he inquired anxiously,"Where do the naughty people lie?"
6166Once, whilst waiting in the Highgate stage, a woman came to the door, and inquired in a stern voice,"Are you quite full inside?"
6166Shall I praise a face unseen, And extol a fancied mien, Rave on visionary charm, And from shadows take alarm?
6166The first interview is made memorable by Godwin''s opening question:"And pray, Mr. Lamb, are you toad or frog?"
6166To Mr. Gilman, a surgeon("query Kill- man?
6166To Mrs. H., of a person eccentric:"Why does not his guardian angel look to him?
6166Well; who can disprove it?
6166What fun has whist now?"
6166What will you take?"
6166What''s the news with you?
6166Which of us has seen Michael Angelo''s things?
6166Why should we get up?"
6166yet which of us disbelieves his greatness?"
6314And was this his only observation? 6314 And what was it?"
6314Capable, for instance, of suing and being sued?
6314Do you conceive Dumpkins to have been a thing or a person?
6314How so? 6314 What is your secret opinion of Dumpkins?"
6314What was it?
6314--was not he an elevated character?
6314A French heart it must be, or how should it follow with its sympathies a French movement?
6314A favorite of nature, so eminent in some directions, by what right could he complain that her bounties were not indiscriminate?
6314And how did he surmount this unhappy self- distrust?
6314And in all Christendom, who, let us ask, who, who but Shakspeare has found the power for effectually working this mysterious mode of being?
6314And of what consequence in whose hands were the reins which were never needed?
6314And to whom was the Bible an indispensable resource, if not to Lamb?
6314And was it upon Shakspeare only, or upon him chiefly, that he lavished his pedantry?
6314And where was such an education to be sought?
6314At this moment, for instance, how could geology be treated otherwise than childishly by one who should rely upon the encyclopaedias of 1800?
6314But on this arose the suggestion-- Why not execute an insurance of this nature twenty times over?
6314But perhaps Voltaire might dislike Pope?
6314But then revolves the question, why must we laugh?
6314But waiving this, let us ask, what is meant by"correctness?"
6314But was this, as Steevens most disingenuously pretends, to be taken as an exponent of the public feeling towards Shakspeare?
6314But were they undisputed masters?
6314But which?
6314But why not have printed it intelligibly as 1741?
6314But why should W. wear boots in Westmoreland?
6314But why?
6314But why?
6314Correctness in what?
6314Did Mr. Lamb not strengthen this remark by some other of the same nature?"
6314Do we mean, then, that a childish error could permanently master his understanding?
6314Do we mean, then, to compare Addison with an idiot?
6314Does a man at Paris expect to see Moliere reproduced in proportion to his admitted precedency in the French drama?
6314Else how came Spenser''s life and fortunes to be so utterly overwhelmed in oblivion?
6314For instance, it was then always said that Charles I had suffered on the 30th of January 1648/9, and why?
6314For instance,"Can you tell pork from veal in the dark, or distinguish Sherries from pure Malaga?
6314How are we to account, then, for that deluge, as if from Lethe, which has swept away so entirely the traditional memorials of one so illustrious?
6314How is all this to be explained?
6314How will he comfort himself after her death?
6314If so, whence came Rowe''s edition, Pope''s, Theobald''s, Sir Thomas Hanmer''s, Bishop Warburton''s, all upon the heels of one another?
6314If the public indeed were universally duped by the paper, what motive had Philips for resentment?
6314If this were accident, how marvellous that the same insanity should possess the two great capitals of Christendom in the same year?
6314If, again, it were not accident, but due to some common cause, why is not that cause explained?
6314In connecting it, or effecting the transitions?
6314In developing the thought?
6314In the grammar?
6314In the metre?
6314In the use of words?
6314Is it no happiness to escape the hands of scoundrel reviewers?
6314Is this coat- of- arms, then, Sir Thomas Lucy''s?
6314Is_ that_ nothing?
6314Lamb?"
6314Let us put a case; suppose that Goethe''s death had occurred fifty years ago, that is, in the year 1785, what would have been the general impression?
6314Like the general rules of justice,& c., in ethics, to which every man assents; but when the question comes about any practical case,_ is_ it just?
6314Milton only,--and why?
6314Napoleon started when he beheld her,_ Qui etes vous_?
6314Now what proof has Mr. Malone adduced, that the acres of Asbies were not as valuable as those of Tugton?
6314Now, if the child died naturally, all was right; but how, if the child did_ not_ die?
6314Or, in any case, what plea had he for attacking Pope, who had not come forward as the author of the essay?
6314Our translation is this:"Here lies Piron; who was-- nothing; or, if_ that_ could be, was less: How!--nothing?
6314Singly, what am I to do?
6314Some readers will inquire, who paid for the printing and paper,& c.?
6314These calls upon the moral powers, which in music so stormy, many a life is doomed to hear, how were they faced?
6314This heart, with this double capacity-- where should he seek it?
6314This will be admitted; but would it not have been better to draw the income without the toil?
6314This would take leave of the reader with effect; but how was it to be introduced?
6314Very well; but why then must we weep?
6314Was Addison''s neglect representative of a general neglect?
6314Was Mr. Hazlitt then of that class?
6314Was he a Frenchman, or was he not?
6314Was this man, so memorably good by life- long sacrifice of himself, in any profound sense a Christian?
6314Wesley--[have you read his life?]
6314What are we to think of this document?
6314What did he mean by that?
6314What energies did it task?
6314What if he does?
6314What kind of woman is''t?
6314What may we assume to have been the value of its fee- simple?
6314What peace is possible under the curse which even now is gathering against your heads?
6314What temptations did it unfold?
6314What trials did it impose?
6314What years?
6314What_ was_ that wickedness?
6314Whither, indeed, could he fly for comfort, if not to his Bible?
6314Why must we laugh?
6314With such prospects, what need of an elaborate education?
6314Would Europe have been sensible even of the event?
6314Would Europe have felt a shock?
6314Yet the editors of Pope, as well as many other writers, have confused their readers by this double date; and why?
6314Yet,_ as_ a part of futurity, how is it connected with our present times?
6314at what era?
6314is it possible to obtain your attention?"
6314under what exciting cause?
47643Are you and your dear Sara-- to me also very dear because very kind-- agreed yet about the management of little Hartley? 47643 Did I not ever love your verses?
47643Every morning when she( Mrs. Beresford) saw me she used to nod her head very kindly and say''How do you do, little Margaret?'' 47643 How did the pearls and the fine court finery bear the fatigues of the voyage and how often have they been worn and admired?
47643If Ishmael had engaged so much of my thoughts, how much more so must Mahomet? 47643 If you do this she will tell your brother, you will say; and what then, quotha?
47643In money alone, did I say? 47643 Is it in good forwardness?
47643Is it possible that I behold the immortal Godwin?
47643Is your being with or near your poor dear mother necessary to her comfort? 47643 Polly, what are those poor crazy, moythered brains of yours thinking always?"
47643Sarah, will you?
47643Was Coleridge often with you? 47643 We have got a picture of Charles; do you think your brother would like to have it?
47643What is Mr. Turner, and what is likely to come of him? 47643 Why, is there more than one Hartley?"
47643You remember Emma, that you were so kind as to invite to your ball? 47643 ''And who is mamma?'' 47643 ''Tis light and pretty:-- Who art thou, fair one, who usurp''st the place Of Blanch, the lady of the matchless grace? 47643 ''Who has taught you to spell so prettily, my little maid?'' 47643 --how is it? 47643 A curse relieves; do you ever try it? 47643 And how do you like him? 47643 And how go on the little rogue''s teeth?
47643And how is he in the way of home comforts-- I mean is he very happy with Mrs. Stoddart?
47643And is there any prospect of her recovery?
47643And what do you intend to do about it?
47643Are Wordsworth and his sister gone yet?
47643Are not his footsteps followed by the eyes Of all the good and wise?
47643Are you married, hearing that I was dead( for so it has been reported)?
47643Are you not to give the fellow border to one sister- in- law, and therefore has she not a just claim to it?
47643As I sat down a feeling like remorse struck me: this tongue poor Mary got for me, and can I partake of it now when she is far away?
47643But a not unimportant question is-- What have the little folk thought?
47643But what was the goose?
47643But what''s the use of talking about''em?
47643But who could dazzle and win like Coleridge?
47643Can I who loved my beloved, But for the scorn"was in her eye"; Can I be moved for my beloved, When she"returns me sigh for sigh"?
47643Come, fair and pretty tell to me Who in thy life- time thou might''st be?
47643Did n''t you see it?
47643Did not I ask your consent that very night after, and did you not give it?
47643Do I spell that last word right?
47643Do n''t you feel unwell?
47643Do not these words generally mean they have time to seek out whatever amusements suit their tastes?
47643Do you believe this?
47643Do you know it?
47643Do you?
47643Does she take any notice of you?
47643Does the hearing of this, my meek pupil, make you long to come to London?
47643For why?
47643From the frankness of her manner I am convinced she is a person I could make a friend of; why should not you?
47643Has he discovered Mr. Curse- a- rat''s correspondence?
47643Has the partridge season opened any communication between you and William?
47643Have you scratched him out of your will yet?
47643Have you seen him yet?
47643He has a friend, I understand, who is now at the head of the Admiralty; why may he not return and make a fortune here?
47643He may have left the lowly walks of men; Left them he has: what then?
47643His gentle soul, his genius, these are thine; Shalt thou for these repine?
47643How do the Lions go on?
47643How do you go on, and how many new ones have you had lately?"
47643How does that same Life go on in your parts?
47643How often must I tell you never to do any needle- work for anybody but me?...
47643I do n''t remember he_ says_ black; but could Milton imagine them to be yellow?
47643I imagined him a Mr. Scott, to be the man you met at Hume''s, but I learn from Mrs. Hume it is not the same.... What other news is there, Mary?
47643I think, sometimes, could I recall the days that are past, which among them should I choose?
47643I used to tap at my father''s study door: I think I now hear him say,''Who is there?
47643If you do, can you put us in a way how to send it?"
47643If you know that at that time he had any such intention will you write instantly?
47643If, in company, he perceived she looked languid, he would repeatedly ask her,''Mary, does your head ache?''
47643In a letter to Southey, dated May 16th, 1815, Lamb says:"Have you seen Matilda Betham''s_ Lay of Marie_?
47643Is a quiet evening in a Maltese drawing- room as pleasant as those we have passed in Mitre Court and Bell Yard?
47643Is he likely to make a very good fortune and in how long a time?
47643Is it Chynon, who was transformed from a clown into a lover, and learned to spell by the force of beauty?
47643Is it as cold at Winterslow as it is here?
47643Is it folly or sin in me to say that it was a religious principle that most supported me?
47643Is n''t there some truth in that?
47643It will be unexpected, and it will give her pleasure; or do you think it will look whimsical at all?
47643Lieutenant Stoddart would sometimes, while sipping his grog, say to his children,"John, will you have some?"
47643May we beg one favour?
47643Now I think of it, what do you mean to be dressed in when we are married?
47643Once more she hears the well- loved sounds of''How do you do, Mrs. Reynolds?
47643One day, seeing the old lady totter across the room, a sudden terror seized me for I thought how would she ever be able to get over the bridge?
47643Or do you grow rich and indolent now?
47643Shall I appoint a time to see you here when he is from home?
47643Shall I come?
47643The sweet resignedness of hope Drawn heavenward, and strength of filial love In which I bowed me to my Father''s will?
47643There are two long, oft- quoted letters to Bernard Barton, written in July 1829, which who has ever read without a pang?
47643These, and such like how s were in my head to tell you, but who can write?
47643Turner?...
47643We next discussed the question whether Pope was a poet?
47643What are you about, little Vicky?''
47643What do you want, little girl?''
47643What fun has whist now?
47643What is Henry about?
47643What is become of you?
47643What is it we deplore?
47643What is the matter between you and your good- natured maid you used to boast of?
47643What matters it what you lead if you can no longer fancy him looking over you?
47643What puns have I made in the last fortnight?
47643What shall we do?"
47643What she hath done to deserve, or the necessity of such an hardship I see not; do you?"
47643What treat can we have now?
47643Where be the blest subsidings of the storm Within?
47643Which of them is it?
47643Why does not his guardian angel look to him?
47643Why must I write of tea and drugs, and price goods and bales of indigo?
47643Why the devil am I never to have a chance of scribbling my own free thoughts in verse or prose again?
47643With brotherly pride he sends them to Coleridge:"How do you like this little epigram?
47643Yet, do you?
47643You are but ten weeks old to- morrow: What can_ you_ know of our loss?
47643You would laugh or you would cry, perhaps both, to see us sit together looking at each other with long and rueful faces and saying''How do you do?''
47643_ Are you happy?
47643and do you not repent going out?_ I wish I could see you for one hour only.
47643and how does Miss Chambers do?''
47643and what should one wish for him?
47643and what the devil is the matter with your aunt?
47643and''How do you do?''
47643how am I changed?
47643how''s this?
47643or are you fallen in love with some of the amorous heroes of Boccaccio?
47643or are you gone into a nunnery?
47643or has any new thing come out against you?
47643or with Lorenzo the lover of Isabella, whom her three brethren hated( as your brother does me), who was a merchant''s clerk?
47643what shall I say next?
47643what will your mother think of us?
47643where is now that boasted valour flown, That in the tented field so late was shown?
47643why is this so?)
10125Ecquid in antiquam virtutem?
10125Hailed who might be near( the"canvas- coverture moving,"by the by, is laughable);"a woman and six children"( by the way, why not nine children?
10125How shall we tell them in a stranger''s ear?
10125To an Infantis most sweet; is not"foodful,"though, very harsh?
10125What have I with time to do? 10125 Who art thou, fair one, who usurp''st the place Of Blanch, the lady of the matchless grace?
10125Wouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy? 10125 ''Tis a selfish but natural wish for me, cast as I am on life''s wide plain, friendless,Are you acquainted with Bowles?
10125), was_ he_ not an elevated character?
10125A chopped missionary or two may keep up the thin idea of Lent and the wilderness; but what standing evidence have you of the Nativity?
10125A tree is a Magnolia, etc.--Can I but like the truly Catholic spirit?
10125Again, would such a painter and forger have taken £ 40 for a thing, if authentic, worth £ 4000?
10125Ai n''t you mightily moped on the banks of the Cam?
10125Am I in the_ date_ive case now?
10125Am I the life and soul of every company I come into?
10125Am I to understand by her letter that she sends a_ kiss_ to Eliza Buckingham?
10125An''t you glad about Burke''s case?
10125An''t you glad about Tuthill?
10125And does not Southey use too often the expletives"did"and"does"?
10125And how does little David Hartley?
10125And in sober sense what makes you so long from among us, Manning?
10125And is it a year since we parted from you at the steps of Edmonton stage?
10125And what is the"Brussels Gazette"now?
10125Are impossibilities nothing?--be they abstractions of the intellects, or not( rather) most sharp and mortifying realities?
10125Are men all tongue and ear?
10125Are the women_ all_ painted, and the men_ all_ monkeys?
10125Are there not libraries, halls, colleges, books, pictures, statues?
10125Are we unstrangulable, I ask you?
10125Are you acquainted with Massinger?
10125Are you and the First Consul_ thick_?
10125Are you intimate with Southey?
10125Are you not glad the cold is gone?
10125Are you yet a Berkleyan?
10125As I sat down, a feeling like remorse struck me: this tongue poor Mary got for me, and can I partake of it now, when she is far away?
10125But consider what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes?
10125But do n''t you conceive all poets after Shakspeare yield to''em in variety of genius?
10125But how can you answer all the various mass of interrogation I have put to you in the course of the sheet?
10125But my spirits have been in an oppressed way for a long time, and they are things which must be to you of faith, for who can explain depression?
10125But what is the reason we have no good epitaphs after all?
10125But what''s the use of talking about''em?
10125But why do I relate this to you, who want faculties to comprehend the great mystery of deposits, of interest, of warehouse rent, and contingent fund?
10125But why waste a wish on him?
10125But would not a poem be more consecutive than a string of sonnets?
10125By the way, when will our volume come out?
10125Can I cram loves enough to you all in this little O?
10125Can we ring the bells backward?
10125Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world?
10125Can you make out what all this letter is about?
10125Can you tell me a likely place where I could pick up cheap Fox''s Journal?
10125Come, fair and pretty, tell to me Who in thy lifetime thou mightst be?
10125Concerning the tutorage, is not the salary low, and absence from your family unavoidable?
10125Cottle read two or three acts out to as, very gravely on both sides, till he came to this heroic touch,--and then he asked what we laughed at?
10125Dear B.B.,--What will you not say to my not writing?
10125Dear P.,--Excuse my anxiety, but how is Dash?
10125Did I not, in your person, make the handsomest apology for absent- of- mind people that was ever made?
10125Did the eyes come away kindly, with no Oedipean avulsion?
10125Did you ever have a very bad cold, with a total irresolution to submit to water- gruel processes?
10125Did you ever have an obstinate cold,--a six or seven weeks''unintermitting chill and suspension of hope, fear, conscience, and everything?
10125Did you ever read it?
10125Did you ever read that garrulous, pleasant history?
10125Did you ever taste frogs?
10125Did you flesh maiden teeth in it?
10125Did you see a sonnet of mine in Blackwood''s last?
10125Do children die so often and so good in your parts?
10125Do we come into the world with different necks?
10125Do you get paunch for him?
10125Do you mean I must pay the postage?
10125Do you observe my direction?
10125Do you publish with Lloyd, or without him?
10125Do you take the pun?
10125Do you trouble yourself about libel cases?
10125Do you understand me?
10125Does Master Hannah give maccaroons still, and does he fetch the Cobbetts from my attic?
10125Does his mighty name work wonders yet upon his little frame and opening mind?
10125Does his tail wag horizontally or perpendicularly?
10125Dost thou love picking meat?
10125Doth he take it in ill part that his humble friend did not comply with his courteous invitation?
10125For literary news, in my poor way, I have a one- act farce[ 1] going to be acted at Haymarket; but when?
10125Goes he muzzled, or_ aperto ore_?
10125Had not you better come and set up here?
10125Had you no cursed complement of boiled neck of mutton before it, to blunt the edge of delicate desire?
10125Has Mrs. He- mans( double masculine) done anything pretty lately?
10125Has he bit any of the children yet?
10125Has it not reached you, that you are silent about it?
10125Has not Master Southey spoke very slightingly in his preface and disparagingly of Cowper''s Homer?
10125Have I not enough without your mountains?
10125Have I seen him at Montacute''s?
10125Have I thanked you, though, yet for"Peter Bell"?
10125Have you let that intention go?
10125Have you met with a friend of mine named Ball at Canton?
10125Have you seen a man guillotined yet?
10125He is at present under the medical care of a Mr. Gilman( Killman?)
10125How are my cousins, the Gladmans of Wheathampstead, and Farmer Bruton?
10125How do you like my way of writing with two inks?
10125How do you make your pigs so little?
10125I did not distinctly understand you,--you do n''t mean to make an actual ploughman of him?
10125I''m glad to see you like my wife, however; you''ll come and see her, ha?"
10125If God''s judgments now fail to take away from the the heart of stone, what more grievous trials ought I not to expect?
10125If we are to go three times a- day to church, why has Sunday slipped into the notion of a_ holi_day?
10125If you do, can you bear new designs from Martin, enamelled into copper or silver plate by Heath, accompanied with verses from Mrs. Hemans''s pen?
10125If you told me the world will be at an end to- morrow, I should just say,"Will it?"
10125In the ignorant present time, who can answer for the future man?
10125Is Lloyd with you yet?
10125Is Sunday, not divinely speaking, but humanly and holiday- sically, a blessing?
10125Is his general deportment cheerful?
10125Is it Gallic, classical?
10125Is it a farm that you have got?
10125Is it as big as Old London Wall by Bedlam?
10125Is it built of flints?
10125Is it folly or sin in me to say that it was a religious principle that_ most_ supported me?
10125Is it not a pity so much fine writing should be erased?
10125Is it not odd that every one''s earliest recollections are of some such place?
10125Is life, with such limitations, worth trying?
10125Is not the last circumstance exquisite?
10125Is the chair empty?
10125Is the muse of L. E. L. silent?
10125Is the phrase classic?
10125Is the sword unswayed?
10125Is there a possible chance for such an one as I to realize in this world such friendships?
10125Is there any distinctive mark under our left ears?
10125Is there no law against these rascals?
10125Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
10125Is there no_ lineal descendant_ of Prester John?
10125It will be unexpected, and it will gire her pleasure; or do you think it will look whimsical at all?
10125Knew you old Norris of the Temple, sixty years ours and our father''s friend?
10125Let it begin,"Is this the land of song- ennobled line?"
10125Lloyd, it minded me of Falkland in the"Rivals,""Am I full of wit and humor?
10125Lord have mercy upon me, how many does two and two make?
10125Manning, your letter, dated Hottentots, August the what- was- it?
10125Mary''s love?
10125May not a publican put up the sign of the Saracen''s Head, even though his undiscerning neighbor should prefer, as more genteel, the Cat and Gridiron?
10125Must I then leave you, gin, rum, brandy,_ aqua- vitae_, pleasant, jolly fellows?
10125N.B.--Is there such a wall?
10125Now am I too proud to retract entirely?
10125Oh, my friend, I think sometimes, could I recall the days that are past, which among them should I choose?
10125Or are you doing anything towards it?
10125Or better, perhaps, BORES in Old English characters, like Madoc or Thalaba?
10125Or else be drowned in thy contemplation?
10125Or perhaps the Comic Muse?
10125Or shall I have no Apollo,--simply nothing?
10125Or wouldst thou in a moment laugh and weep?
10125Or wouldst thou lose thyself, and catch no harm, And find thyself again without a charm?
10125Pray, is there anything new from the admired pen of the author of"The Pleasures of Hope"?
10125Shall I find all my letters at my rooms on Tuesday?
10125Shall I say two?
10125She lugs us out into the fields, because there the bird- boys ask you,"Pray, sir, can you tell us what''s o''clock?"
10125She proposes writing my name_ Lambe?
10125Singly what am I to do?
10125So you still want a motto?
10125That is not my poetry, but Quarles''s; but have n''t you observed that the rarest things are the least obvious?
10125The expression in the second,"more happy to be unhappy in hell,"is it not very quaint?
10125The foul enchanter[ Nick?
10125Then what puddings have you?
10125There are no Quaker circulating libraries?
10125There is a march of Science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
10125There is a tinge of_ petit_( or_ petite_, how do you spell it?)
10125There is no doubt of its being the work of some ill- disposed rustic; but how is he to be discovered?
10125There''s your friend Tuthill has got away from France-- you remember France?
10125Thy"Watchman''s,"thy bellman''s verses, I do retort upon thee, thou libellous varlet,--why, you cried the hours yourself, and who made you so proud?
10125To come to the point, then, and hasten into the middle of things, have you a copy of your Algebra[ 1] to give away?
10125Was I a candid greyhound now for all this?
10125Was the crackling the color of the ripe pomegranate?
10125Wesley( have you read his life?
10125What am I to do with such people?
10125What are we better than they?
10125What by early hours and moderate meals?
10125What can a mortal desire more for his bi- parted nature?
10125What can make her so fond of a gingerbread watch?
10125What do you think of( for a title) Religio Tremuli?
10125What fun has whist now?
10125What has happened to learned Trismegist?
10125What have I gained by health?
10125What is a Leadenhall clerk or India pensioner to a Deputy- Grecian?
10125What is all this to your letter?
10125What is the reason we do not sympathize with pain, short of some terrible surgical operation?
10125What is to become of the good old talk about our good old king,--his personal virtues saving us from a revolution, etc.?
10125What makes him reluctant to give Cowper his fame?
10125What matters it what you lead, if you can no longer fancy him looking over you?
10125What poems is he about to publish?
10125What says Coleridge?
10125What testimonials shall I bring of my being worthy of such friendship?
10125Where am I to look for''em?
10125Where will these things end?
10125Where will you get holly to stick in your churches, or churches to stick your dried tea- leaves( that must be the substitute) in?
10125Whither can I take wing from the oppression of human faces?
10125Who is Baddams?
10125Who looked over your proof- sheets and left_ ordebo_ in that line of Virgil?
10125Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
10125Who shall describe his countenance, catch its quivering sweetness, and fix it forever in words?
10125Who shall persuade the boor that phosphor will not ignite?
10125Who, that standeth, knoweth but he may yet fall?
10125Why any week?
10125Why any week?"
10125Why did you not add"The Wagoner"?
10125Why do you seem to sanction Landor''s unfeeling allegorizing away of honest Quixote?
10125Why does not his guardian angel look to him?
10125Why not your father?
10125Why should not you write a poetical account of your old worthies, deducing them from Fox to Woolman?
10125Why sleeps the lyre of Hervey and of Alaric Watts?
10125Why the next?
10125Why the next?
10125Why was n''t he content with the language which Gay and Prior wrote in?
10125Will Dr. W. accept of my respects at the end of a foolish letter?
10125Will Miss H. pardon our not replying at length to her kind letter?
10125Will none of you ever be in London again?
10125Will they, have they, did they come safe?
10125Will you drop in to- morrow night?
10125With these dark words begins my fate; And their meaning is, whence can comfort spring When Prayer is of no avail?"
10125Without its institution, would our rugged taskmasters have given us a leisure day so often, think you, as once in a month?
10125Would Wilberforce give us our Tuesdays?
10125Would clod be anything but a clod if he could resist it?
10125Would his"School- mistress,"the prettiest of poems, have been better if he had used quite the Goody''s own language?
10125Would not"dulcet"fruit be less harsh, or some other friendly bi- syllable?
10125Wouldst read_ thyself_, and read thou knowest not what, And yet know whether thou art blest or not By reading the same lines?
10125Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep?
10125Wouldst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly?
10125Wouldst thou read riddles and their explanation?
10125You had all some of the crackling-- and brain sauce; did you remember to rub it with butter, and gently dredge it a little just before the crisis?
10125You have seen Beauties of Shakspeare?
10125You knew Dick Hopkins, the swearing scullion of Caius?
10125You know what Horace says of the_ Deus intersit_?
10125You like the Odyssey: did you ever read my"Adventures of Ulysses,"founded on Chapman''s old translation of it?
10125You stop the arm of a murderer, or arrest the finger of a pickpurse; but is not the guilt incurred as much by the intent as if never so much acted?
10125You understand music?
10125[ 1] What are you to do among such Ethiopians?
10125[ 3] The first line of the poem on Bolton Abbey:--"''What is good for a bootless bene?''
10125_ A propos_( is it pedantry, writing to a Frenchman, to express myself sometimes by a French word, when an English one would not do as well?
10125_ November_ 3, 1800,_ Ecquid meditatur Archimedes?_ What is Euclid doing?
10125_ November_ 3, 1800,_ Ecquid meditatur Archimedes?_ What is Euclid doing?
10125_ racemi nimium alte pendentes?_?
10125_ racemi nimium alte pendentes?_?
10125and does it stand at Kingsgate?
10125and what does your worship know about farming?
10125are men nothing but word- trumpets?
10125brick and stone walls in her way, which she can by no means eat through?
10125is it as good as hanging?
10125is there not from six to eleven P.M. six days in the week, and is there not all Sunday?
10125nuts in the Will''s mouth too hard for her to crack?
10125or Tremebundi?
10125or are there not a_ few_ that look like_ rational_ of_ both sexes_?
10125or did I do right?
10125or wouldst thou see A man i''the clouds, and hear him speak to thee?
10125or, if it had not been instituted, might they not have given us every sixth day?
10125said I,"who are you talking of?"
10125sore lets,_ impedimenta viarum_, no thoroughfares?
10125was the wanderer wrong?"
10125what am I now?
10125what could he mean?
10851Could this good- natured and humorous old gentleman be prevailed upon to give me an Epigram?
10851Eencome again?
10851How shall we tell them in a stranger''s ear?
10851How shall we tell them in a stranger''s ear?
10851I struggle to town rarely, and then to see London, with little other motive-- for what is left there hardly? 10851 O ma''am, who do you think Miss Ouldcroft( they pronounce it Holcroft) has been working a cap for?"
10851Stern and_ sear_?
10851To my Brother,a sonnet on the birthday of his brother Tom, dated Nov. 18(?
10851What is an Album?
10851What''s he saying? 10851 Would Wilberforce give us our Tuesdays?"
10851''A sweet sadness''capable of inspiring''a more_ grave joy_''--than what?--than demonstrations of_ mirth_?
10851( What is M. to me?)
10851* Is it the Western?
10851-- Early-- March 19,--?
10851-- End of July-- Dyer, George, to Dec. 5, 1808?
10851-- March 30,-- Oct. 21,-- July, 1823 Sept. 6,-- Sept. 9,-- Sept. 10,-- Sept.--?
10851--( from Mary Lamb)?
10851--Yet-- yet,--(for when was pleasure made Sunshine all without a shade?)
108511806 March 11, 1808?
108511811?
108511821?
108511826?
108511829 Sept. 22,-- May 12, 1830 Nov. 12,--?
108511833 Rickman, John, to?
10851300 Mary Lamb to Mrs. James Kenney? Early Dec. Mr. Hazlitt''s text(_ The Lambs_).
10851317 Charles Lamb to Miss Hutchinson(?)
10851332 Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop? Oct.
10851350 Charles Lamb to Thomas Hood(?_ fragment_) Aug. 10 From the original.
10851357 Charles Lamb to Leigh Hunt? Nov.
10851364 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning? Feb.
10851373 Charles Lamb to Charles Chambers? May Mr. Hazlitt''s text(_ The Lambs_).
10851375 Charles Lamb to Henry Colburn(?)
10851385 Charles Lamb to Charles Oilier? Dec.
10851403 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon? Sept.
10851432 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon? Sept.
10851436 Charles Lamb to William Hone? Oct.
10851441 Charles Lamb to William Hone Dec. 15 442 Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop? Dec.
10851447 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon? Jan.
10851458 Charles Lamb to Mrs. Morgan June 17 459 Mary Lamb to the Thomas Hoods? Summer Mr. Hazlitt''s text(_ The Lambs_).
10851470 Charles Lamb to George Dyer? Jan.
10851481 Charles Lamb to Miss Sarah James? April Text from Mr. Samuel Davey.
10851482 Charles Lamb to Crabb Robinson? April From the original( Dr. Williams''Library).
10851485 Charles Lamb to Thomas Hood? May Mr. Hazlitt''s text(_ The Lambs_).
10851495 Charles Lamb to James Gillman? Nov.
10851510 Charles Lamb to James Gillman? Spring Mr. Hazlitt''s text( Bohn).
10851511 Charles Lamb to Jacob Vale Asbury? April From_ The Athenaewn_.
10851528 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon? Christmas From the original( South Kensington).
10851543 Charles Lamb to James Sheridan Knowles? April From the original( South Kensington).
10851544 Charles Lamb to John Forster? Late April From the original( South Kensington).
10851545 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon?
10851548 Charles Lamb to Crabb Robinson? Early Oct. From the original( South Kensington).
10851569 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon? Spring From the original( South Kensington).
10851572 Charles Lamb to John Forster? March From the original( South Kensington).
10851573 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon? April 10 From the original at Rowfant.
10851587 Charles and Mary Lamb to Edward and Emma Moxon? July 31 From the original at Rowfant.
10851612 Charles Lamb to Mr. Childs? Dec.
108519526 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon? Dec.
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10851?-- Late Autumn, 1828?
10851?-- Late Autumn, 1828?
10851A Serjeant?
10851A father''s"sneer"?
10851A tree is a Magnolia,& c.--Can I but like the truly Catholic spirit?
10851Again, would such a painter and forger have expected £40 for a thing, if authentic, worth £4000?
10851Am I in the dateive case now?
10851Amelia, Caroline, Julia, Augusta, or"Scots who have"?
10851An''t you glad about Burke''s case?
10851And art thou mingled then among Those famous sons of ancient song?
10851And do they gather round, and praise Thy relish Of their nobler lays?
10851And if on my passage home, I thought it made five, what matter?
10851And is it a year since we parted from you at the steps of Edmonton Stage?
10851And is not CLARE for love excuse enough?
10851And what dost thou at the Priory?
10851And what if Maggiore itself be but a coinage of adaptation?
10851And what is reason?
10851And what is the"Brussels Gazette"now?
10851And why( the reader may ask) not have noticed his_ Satan in Search of a Wife_?
10851Angelica or Millamant?
10851April 10,-- April 25,-- April 27,-- July 14,-- July 24,-- and Emma( from Mary and Charles Lamb)?
10851April 16 or 17,--?
10851April, 1829 Kelly, Fanny, to July 20, 1819 July 20,-- Kenny, James and Louisa, to Oct., 1817 Mrs. James, to( from Mary Lamb)?
10851April,-- April 17,--?
10851April,-- Aug.,-- Aug. 31,--?
10851Are his intellects sound, or does he wander a little in_ his_ conversation?
10851Are not you proud and thankful, Emma?
10851Are there more Last words of him?
10851Are there no French Pieces with a Child in them?
10851Are we unstrangulable?
10851Are you not glad the Cold is gone?
10851Asbury, Jacob Vale, to?
10851Autumn,-- Dec. 10,-- Dec. 14,-- June 29, 1801 Sept. 9,-- Sept. 17,-- Nov. 8, 1803 Nov. 10,--?
10851Autumn,-- May 1, 1821 March 9, 1822?
10851Bring the Sonnets-- Why not publish''em?--or let another Bookseller?
10851Burney gone!--what fun has whist now?
10851But can You BARBARA resist, or MARIAN?
10851But did you read the"Memoir of Liston"?
10851But how did I deserve to have the Book?
10851But is it not small?
10851But my spirits have been in a deprest way for a long long time, and they are things which must be to you of faith, for who can explain depression?
10851But tell me, and tell me truly, gentle Swain, is that Isola Bella a true spot in geographical denomination, or a floating Delos in thy brain?
10851But the dogs-- T. and H. I mean-- will not affront me, and what can I do?
10851But what as a Society can they do for you?
10851But what have you done with the first I sent you?--have you swapt it with some lazzaroni for macaroni?
10851But would not a Poem be more consecutive than a string of Sonnets?
10851By the by, is the widow likely to marry again?
10851By the way is magnesia good on these occasions?
10851By whom was I divested?
10851COLERIDGE[?
10851Ca n''t he and Henry Crabbe concert it?
10851Ca n''t you contrive it?
10851Ca n''t you drop in some afternoon, and take a bed?
10851Can I cram loves enough to you all in this little O?
10851Can I go to her aunt, or do anything?
10851Can I thwart her wish exprest, Ev''n unseemly though the laugh Jesting with an Epitaph?
10851Can he be the same Hesiod who did the Titans?
10851Can not we think of Burns, or Thompson, without sullying the thought with a reflection out of place upon Lord Rochester?
10851Can not your Sister come and take a half bed-- or a whole one?
10851Can we ring the bells backward?
10851Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world?
10851Can you come and eat grouse?
10851Can you have a quiet evening here to night or tomorrow night?
10851Can you name an evening_ next week_?
10851Can you not send your manuscript by the Coach?
10851Can you put me in a way of sending it in safety?
10851Can you slip down here some day and go a Green- dragoning?
10851Can you tell me a likely place where I could pick up, cheap, Fox''s Journal?
10851Canon Ainger''s text here has:"May we venture to bring Emma with us?"
10851Canst thou copy and send, or bring with thee, a vanity in verse which in my younger days I wrote on friend Aders''pictures?
10851Coleridge? June Mr. Hazlitt''s text( Bohn).
10851Could Moses have seen the speck in vision?
10851Could not you do it?
10851Could you do nothing for little Clara Fisher?
10851Could you not write something on Quakerism-- for Quakers to read-- but nominally addrest to Non Quakers?
10851D''r A.--I expect Proctor and Wainwright( Janus W.) this evening; will you come?
10851D''r F. Can you oblige me by sending 4 Box orders undated for the Olympic Theatre?
10851DEAR B.B.--Could you dream of my publishing without sending a copy to you?
10851Dabam-- what is it?
10851Dare I pick out what most pleases me?
10851Dear B.B.--What will you say to my not writing?
10851Dear FUGUE- IST, or hear''st thou rather CONTRAPUNTIST--?
10851Dear N., will these lines do?
10851Dear Patmore-- Excuse my anxiety-- but how is Dash?
10851Dear Raffaele Haydon,--Did the maid tell you I came to see your picture, not on Sunday but the day before?
10851Dear Sir,--If convenient, will you give us house room on Saturday next?
10851Dec. 21, 1833 Russell, J. Fuller, to Summer, 1834 Sargus, Mr., to Feb. 23, 1815 Scott, John, to?
10851Dec.,--?
10851Did G.D. send his penny tract to me to convert me to Unitarianism?
10851Did I not, in your person, make the handsomest apology for absent- of- mind people that was ever made?
10851Did I tell you of a pleasant sketch Hood has done, which he calls_ Very Deaf Indeed_?
10851Did not the Blue Girl remind you of some of Congreve''s women?
10851Did the eyes come away kindly with no Oedipean avulsion?
10851Did you ever read my"Adventures of Ulysses,"founded on Chapman''s old translation of it?
10851Did you ever taste frogs?
10851Did you flesh maiden teeth in it?
10851Did you get one in which I sent you an extract from the poems of Lord Sterling?
10851Did you see a sonnet of mine in Blackwood''s last?
10851Do children die so often, and so good, in your parts?
10851Do n''t you see there''s_ He, myself_, and_ him_; why not both_ him_?
10851Do we come into the world with different necks?
10851Do you get paunch for him?
10851Do you go on with your Quaker Sonnets--[to] have''em ready with Southey''s Book of the Church?
10851Do you know any poor solitary human that wants that cordial to life a-- true friend?
10851Do you know anybody that wants charades, or such things, for Albums?
10851Do you mean I must pay the postage?
10851Do you never Londonize again?
10851Do you never leave early?
10851Do you observe my direction?
10851Do you see Mitford?
10851Do you see it?
10851Do you see the Author of May you Like it?
10851Do you see the"New Monthly"?
10851Do you trouble yourself about Libel cases?
10851Do you understand?
10851Do you write to him?
10851Do your Drummonds allow no holydays?
10851Do"Friends"allow puns?
10851Does Mary Hazlitt go on with her novel, or has she begun another?
10851Does he talk of moving this quarter?
10851Does his tail wag horizontally or perpendicularly?
10851Dost thou love picking meat?
10851Doth Lucy go to Balls?
10851Early 1834?]
10851Early Dec., 1822 Knowles, James Sheridan, to?
10851Early Oct., 1832 Thomas, to Nov. 11, 1822 Rogers, Samuel, to March 22, 1829 Oct. 5, 1830?
10851Else, why does not wine choke us?
10851Elton borrowed the"Aids"from Hessey( by the way what is your Enigma about Cupid?
10851En Passant, J''aime entendre da mon bon hommè sur surveillance de croix, ma pas l''homme figuratif-- do you understand me?
10851Faint who have visited Hastings?
10851Feb. 15, 1802?
10851Feb. 20, 21 and 22, 1806 March,-- June 2,--?
10851For literary news, in my poor way, I have a one- act farce going to be acted at the Haymarket; but when?
10851Free from care and toil indeed?
10851Free to wander amongst men When and howsoe''er thou wilt?
10851Gillman, James, to May 2, 1821 Oct. 26, 1829?
10851Goes he muzzled, or_ aperto ore_?
10851H.F., to Oct. 14, 1823 April 3, 1826 May 6, 1831 Sept. 9, 1833( from Charles and Mary Lamb) Sept. 12, 1834 Oct.-- Oct. 18,-- Chambers, Charles, to?
10851HERE HE IS what follows?
10851Had you no complement of boiled neck of mutton before it, to blunt the edge of delicate desire?
10851Has Moxon sent you"Elia,"second volume?
10851Has Mrs. He- mans( double masculine) done anything pretty lately?
10851Has he bit any of the children yet?
10851Has it more significance than"bright"?
10851Has it not reach''d you, that you are silent about it?
10851Has the irriverent ark- toucher been struck blind I wonder--?
10851Has your pa[1] any scrap?
10851Have I seen him at Montacute''s?
10851Have you done any sonnets, can you send me any to overlook?
10851Have you heard it?
10851Have you heard_ the Creature_ at the Opera House-- Signor Non- vir sed VELUTI Vir?
10851Have you seen Fearn''s_ Anti- Tooke_?
10851Have you seen it?
10851Have you seen my friend White?
10851Have you thought of inquiring Miss Wilson''s change of abode?
10851He acts Ignoramus in the play so thoroughly, that you w''d swear that in the inmost marrow of his head( is not this the proper anatomical term?)
10851He adds,"How some parsons would have goggled and what would Hannah More say?
10851Here I am, able to compose a sensible rational apology, and what signifies how I got here?
10851Here am I, quit of worldly affairs of every kind; for if superannuation does not mean that, what does it mean?
10851Honour where honour is due; but should he ever visit us,( do you think he ever will, Mary?)
10851Hood to our new mansion, lest she envy it,& rote[?
10851Hoods, the Thomas, to( from Mary Lamb)?
10851How are all the Wordsworths and all the Southeys?
10851How can I account for having not visited Highgate this long time?
10851How can I confute them by opening it, when a note of yours might slip out,& we get in a hobble?
10851How did you like Hartley''s sonnets?
10851How do you make your pigs so little?
10851How do, Jane?"
10851How is Kenney?
10851How is Talma, and his( my) dear Shakspeare?
10851How now?
10851How, especially, is Victoria?
10851Humphreys, Miss, to Jan. 27 1821 Hunt, Leigh, to April 18,--?
10851I admire the petty- toes shrouded in a veil of something, not_ mud_, but that warm soft consistency with[?
10851I come, my dear-- Where is the Indigo Sale Book?
10851I do not know who they have got in that young line, besides Miss C.F., at Drury, nor how you would like Elliston to have it-- has he not had it?
10851I do sadly want those 2 last Hogarths-- and an''t I to have the Play?
10851I feel queer at returning it( who does not?).
10851I get nothing by any of''em, not even a Copy-- Thank you for your warm interest about my little volume, for the critics on which I care[?
10851I have imagined a chorus of ill- used authors singing on the occasion: What should we when Booksellers break?
10851I have lost Mr. Aitken''s Town address-- do you know it?
10851I want to be going, to the Jardin des Plantes( is that right, Louisa?)
10851I want to hear about Hone, does he stand above water, how is his son?
10851I wish all the ink in the ocean dried up, and would listen to the quills shivering[?
10851I would not go four miles to visit Sebastian Bach- or Batch- which is it?
10851If I knew your bookseller, I''d order it for you at a venture:''tis two octavos, Longman and Co. Or do you read now?
10851If a thing is good, why invidiously bring it into light with something better?
10851If we are to go 3 times a day to church, why has Sunday slipped into the notion of a_ Holli_day?
10851In the mean time will you dine with me at 1/2 past four to- morrow?
10851In the mean while, could you not run down some week day( afternoon, say) and sleep at the Horse Shoe?
10851Intelligisne?
10851Is S.''s Christian name Thomas?
10851Is Sir Walter to be applied to, and by what channel?
10851Is Sunday, not divinely speaking, but humanly and holydaysically, a blessing?
10851Is Taylor or Hessey dead?
10851Is he not a noble boy?
10851Is he there?
10851Is his general deportment cheerful?
10851Is it Gallic?--Classical?
10851Is it a fatality in me, that every thing I touch turns into a Lye?
10851Is it in good forwardness?
10851Is it possible a letter has miscarried?
10851Is it possible they can be any relations?
10851Is it to be made to match a drawing?
10851Is it worth Forster''s while to enquire after them?
10851Is it worth postage?
10851Is she of the heav''nborn Three, Meek Hope, strong Faith, sweet Charity?
10851Is there any distinctive mark under our left ears?
10851Is there no Blackwood this month?
10851Is there no middle way of adjusting this fine embarrassment?
10851It is not George 3 trying the 100th psalm?
10851It runs thus:"It had been proposed by L. that W.W. should be the Possessor of[?
10851Jan. 23, 1800?
10851June 29,-- Late July-- Aug. 24,-- About Sept. 20,-- Jan. 28, 1798 Early Summer,--?
10851June 7, 1809 Oct. 30,-- Aug. 13, 1814 Aug. 26,-- Dec. 24, 1818?
10851Know you any one that has it, and would exchange it?
10851Know you of it?
10851LETTER 375 CHARLES LAMB TO HENRY COLBURN(?)
10851LETTER 447 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON[ P.M.(?
10851LETTER 482 CHARLES LAMB TO H. CRABB ROBINSON[ P.M. April?
10851LETTER 495(_?
10851LETTER 510 CHARLES LAMB TO JAMES GILLMAN[?
10851LETTER 511 CHARLES LAMB TO JACOB VALE ASBURY[?
10851LETTER 544 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN FORSTER[?
10851LETTER 545 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON(?)
10851Lamb says:"Will you re- give, or_ lend_ me, by the bearer, the one Volume of juvenile Poetry?
10851Lastly, I much like the Heron,''tis exquisite: know you Lord Thurlow''s Sonnet to a Bird of that sort on Lacken water?
10851Late-- April 25, 1823(?)
10851Late--?
10851Lurks that fair island in verity in the bosom of Lake Maggiore, or some other with less poetic name, which thou hast Cornwallized for the occasion?
10851March, 1804 Late July,-- Late July,--( from Mary Lamb)?
10851Mary''s love?
10851Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
10851May 26, 1820 Dibdin, John Bates, to?
10851May, 1825 Childs, Mr., to?
10851May, 1829?
10851Mr.------, whose name you have left illegible( is it_ Sea- gull_?)
10851My advice is, to borrow it rather than read[?
10851My dear Friend,--Day after day has passed away, and my brother has said,"I will write to Mrs.[?
10851My dear Friend,--How do you like Harwood?
10851My dear T.,--Now can not I call him_ Serjeant_; what is there in a coif?
10851N.B.--What is good for a desperate head- ache?
10851Need he add loves to Wife, Sister, and all?
10851Nov. 10, 1829 May 14, 1830 Nov. 8,-- Mrs. Vincent, to( from Mary Lamb) Spring, 1820 Ollier, Charles, to?
10851Nov. 2, 1824 John Payne, to Dec 10, 1817 May 16, 1821 Cottle, Joseph, to Nov. 5, 1819?
10851Nov. 25, 1824 Jan. 20, 1825 March 1,-- April 18,-- James, Miss Sarah, to?
10851Nov. 29,-- Nov. 30-- March 8, 1830?
10851Nov., 1824 Dec., 1827 Hutchinson, Sarah, to( from Mary Lamb) Aug. 29 1815 Aug. 20,-- Oct. 19,--( from Mary Lamb) Middle of Nov., 1816?
10851O MARIA, MARIA, valdè CONTRARIA, quomodo crescit hortulus tuus?
10851Oct.-- Jan. 17, 1825 Sept. 9,-- Sept. 24,-- Dec. 5,--?
10851Of this pray resolve me immediately, for my albumess will be catechised on this subject; and how can I prompt her?
10851Oh B.C., my whole heart is faint, and my whole head is sick( how is it?)
10851Old Tycho Brahe and modern Herschel Had something in them; but who''s Purcel?
10851Once in the flight of ages past, There lived a man:--and WHO was HE?
10851Or did he think his cheap publication would bring over the Methodists over the way here?
10851Or did sweet sounds from seraphs''strings Waft thee from earth to heaven?
10851Or else be drowned in thy contemplation?
10851Or some Cherub?
10851Or wouldst thou in a moment laugh and weep?
10851Or wouldst thou lose thyself, and catch no harm, And find thyself again without a charm?
10851PROCTER[?
10851Poor Relations is tolerable-- but where shall I get another subject-- or who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
10851Pray, how may I venture to return it to Mr. Shewell at Ipswich?
10851Pray, is there anything new from the admired pen of the author of the_ Pleasures of Hope_?
10851Procter? Summer From facsimile in Mrs. Field''s_ A Shelf of Old Authors_.
10851Proctor has acted a friendly part-- when did he otherwise?
10851Put me down seven shillings( was n''t it?)
10851Quâ ratione assimulandus sit equus TREMULO?
10851Rogers approving, who can demur?
10851See you?
10851Sept. 26,-- Dec. 22,--?
10851Sept.,-- July 17, 1827?
10851Sept.18, 1805 Early Nov.,-- Nov. 9 and 14,--?
10851Shall I go on with the Table talk?
10851Shall I order a copy for you, and will you accept it?
10851Shall I say two?
10851Shall not I, think you, be covered with a red suffusion?
10851Should not"Last Essays& c."head them?
10851Sit down, good B.B., in the Banking Office; what, is there not from six to Eleven P.M. 6 days in the week, and is there not all Sunday?
10851So you still want a motto?
10851So"perish the roses and the flowers"--how is it?
10851Spring,-- March 30,-- Spring,--?
10851Spring,-- May 12,-- Coleridge, S.T., to?
10851Steele, giving an account of Selkirk?
10851Summer, 1819 Jan 10, 1820?
10851Summer, 1821 April 13, 1823 Nov. 11, 1824 Jan. 19, 1829 Jan. 22,--?
10851THE ASS Call you this friendship?
10851Tell me how you like"Barbara S."--will it be received in atonement for the foolish Vision, I mean by the Lady?
10851Ten years ago I literally did not know the point from the broad end of the Vane, which it was the[? that] indicated the Quarter.
10851Tenuistine?
10851That Lee Priory must be a dainty bower, is it built of flints, and does it stand at Kingsgate?
10851That it may be a long one, can not you secure places now for Mrs. Novello yourself and the Clarkes?
10851The bellows might be trumped up, but where did the painter spring from?
10851The costume( will he agnize it?)
10851The fable?
10851The lines are at the end of a little poem of his, called Milestones--(Do you remember it or shall I write it all out?)
10851The moral?
10851The passage runs, answering the question,"What is an Album?"
10851The subject?
10851Then why"to minstrel''s glance"?
10851There are no Quaker Circulating Libraries?
10851There is a march of Science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
10851There is no doubt of its being the work of some ill- disposed rustic; but how is he to be discovered?
10851To get out of home themes, have you seen Southey''s Dialogues?
10851To the young Vesper- singer, Great Bealing''s, Playford, and what not?
10851To this dry drudgery of the desk''s dead wood?
10851Was the crackling the colour of the ripe pomegranate?
10851Was the dark secret to be explored to end in the seducing of a weak girl, which might have been accomplished by earthly agency?
10851We have a sure hot joint on a Sunday, and when had we better?
10851Were angels, with expanded wings, As guides and guardians given?
10851What are T. and H. about?
10851What are we better than they?
10851What are you laughing at?"
10851What can a mortal desire more for his bi- parted nature?
10851What can twenty votes do for one hundred and two widows?
10851What did he do?
10851What do you advise me?
10851What does Elia( or Peter) care for dates?
10851What does me?
10851What has fate Not given to thee in thy well- chosen mate?
10851What have I gained by health?
10851What have I with Time to do?}
10851What is Henry about?
10851What is Poole about,& c.?
10851What is a maiden''s"een,"south of the Tweed?
10851What is all this to your Letter?
10851What is the Enigma?
10851What is the news?
10851What is the reason we do not sympathise with pain, short of some terrible Surgical operation?
10851What is"sheen"?
10851What then w''d be my reply to the above question?
10851What will he do in Paradise?
10851What''s her address?
10851What, old friend, and art thou freed From the bondage of the pen?
10851What_ one_ point is there of interest?
10851When a lady loses her good_ name_, what is to become of her?
10851When shall I ever see them again?
10851When shall we eat another Goosepye together?
10851Where are they?
10851Where shall I get such full flavor''d Geneva again?
10851Where will these things end?
10851Whether it is that the Magazine paying me so much a page, I am loath to throw away composition-- how much a sheet do you give your correspondents?
10851Whither can I take wing from the oppression of human faces?
10851Who is Badman, or Bed''em?
10851Who played the oboe?
10851Who shall call this man a Quack hereafter?
10851Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
10851Who shall persuade the boor that phosphor will not ignite?
10851Who that standeth, knoweth but he may yet fall?
10851Who the deuce painted it?
10851Who was it?
10851Why am I restive?
10851Why any week?
10851Why did you give it me?
10851Why did you not stay, or come again, yesterday?
10851Why does not A come and see me?
10851Why does not his guardian angel look to him?
10851Why is a horse like a Quaker?
10851Why not come down by the Green Lanes on Sunday?
10851Why set the word against the word?
10851Why sleeps the lyre of Hervey, and of Alaric Watts?
10851Why tarry the wheels of my Hogarth?
10851Why the next?
10851Why"ee"--barbarous Scoticism!--when"eye"is much better and chimes to"cavalry"?
10851Why"glinting,"Scotch, when"glancing"is English?
10851Will it do?
10851Will you address him on the subject, or shall I-- that is, Mary?
10851Will you come to us then?
10851Will you convey the inclosed by hand?
10851Will you do me the favor to forward the other volume to Southey?
10851Will you let me know the day before?
10851Will you oblige us by securing us beds at some house from which a stage goes to the Bank in the morning?
10851Will you pardon my neglect?
10851Will you set your wits to a dog?
10851Will you write to him about it?
10851Will your occasions or inclination bring_ you_ to London?
10851Would Saturdy serve?
10851Would Wilberforce give us our Tuesdays?
10851Would a high- born man in those days_ sneer_ at a daughter''s disgrace-- would he_ only_ sneer?
10851Would clod be any thing but a clod, if he could resist it?
10851Would his Schoolmistress, the prettiest of poems, have been better, if he had used quite the Goody''s own language?
10851Would you call an omnibus to take you to Shene?
10851Wouldst read_ thyself_, and read thou knowst not what, And yet know whether thou art blest or not By reading the same lines?
10851Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep?
10851Wouldst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly?
10851Wouldst thou read riddles and their explanation?
10851You are worst of nights, a''nt you?
10851You can scarcely scrue a smile out of your face-- can you?
10851You do not know the Watfords?
10851You feel awkward at re- taking it( who ought not?)
10851You had all some of the crackling--and brain sauce-- did you remember to rub it with butter, and gently dredge it a little, just before the crisis?
10851You have received £30 from Harwood, I hope?
10851You never was rack''d, was you?
10851You remember Emma, that you were so kind as to invite to your ball?
10851You stop the arm of a murderer, or arrest the finger of a pickpurse, but is not the guilt incurred as much by the intent as if never so much acted?
10851You understand music?...
10851[ August 17, 1821(?).]
10851[ Dated at end: June 14(?
10851[?
10851[?
10851[_ Added on cover_:--] What separation will there be between the friend''s preface, and THE ESSAYS?
10851_ I?_ It is time to have done my incoherences.
10851_ Louisa_--_Clare_--by which name shall I call thee?
10851_ N''import_--havn''t I Miss Many Things coming?
10851_ N.B._ I am not_ therefore_ going to die.--Would it be unpleasant for you to be named for one?
10851_ One_ why should I forget?
10851_ Sir_( as I say to Southey) will you come and see us at our poor cottage of Colebrook to tea tomorrow evening, as early as six?
10851an me Anglicè et barbarice ad te hominem perdoctum scribere oportet?
10851and did you guess whose it was?
10851and how often in a day do we do without it, just as well?
10851and was this a fourteener to be rejected by a trumpery annual?
10851and what is the loss of it?
10851and what should one wish for him?
10851could Nature have made that sloping lane, not to facilitate the down- going?
10851diem perdidi?_ There is no Titus play among the Garrick Extracts.]
10851explaining your dogmas-- waiting on the Spirit-- by the analogy of human calmness and patient waiting on the judgment?
10851good friend, what profit can you see In hating such an hateless thing as me?
10851in?
10851must I go on to drivelling?
10851not by the fair hands of nymphs, the Buffam Graces?
10851or do you grow rich and indolent now?
10851or must I write in barbarous English to a scholar like you?
10851or pledged it with a gondolierer for a passage?
10851or wouldst thou see A man i''th''clouds, and hear him speak to thee?
10851return it) for a month or two?
10851says one of our waywardens or parish overseers,--What business is this of_ yours_?
10851silent?
10851what am I now?
10851what is a Leadenhall clerk or India pensioner to a deputy Grecian?
10851what matters it what you lead, if you can no longer fancy him looking over you?
10851why stands my sun upon Gibeah?
9365!_ Will you do them and me_ in_ them the pleasure of drinking tea and supping with me at the_ old_ number 16 on Friday or Saturday next?
9365A fine boy!--have you any more? 9365 Are you a Xtian?"
9365Are you and the First Consul_ thick_?
9365Do n''t you, sir? 9365 Ecquid in antiquam virtutem?"
9365For aye unbroken, shall her cruel BowShoot Famine''s arrows o''er thy ravag''d World?
9365For ever shall the bloody Island scowl? 9365 Lost his Wife?"
9365Nature joins her groans--joins with_ whom_, a God''s name, but the world or earth in line preceding?
9365Now,said Lamb,"you old lake poet, you rascally poet, why do you call Voltaire dull?"
9365Where is Coleridge?
9365Who can cram into a strait coop of a review any serious idea of such a vast and magnificent poem?]
9365Why not your father?
9365Why omit 40, 63, 84?
9365With me, sir?
9365Would you like to see him?
9365_ And who the promis''d spouse declare, And what those bridal garments were_?
9365''The hour when we shall meet again''is[ only?]
9365( And what if Monads of the infinite mind?)
9365(? 1715- 1773), the editor of Swift, a director of the East India Company, and the friend of Johnson whom he imitated in_ The Adventurer_.
9365*****"What is all this about?"
9365--does his mighty name work wonders yet upon his little frame, and opening mind?
9365117 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart? March Mr. Hazlitt''s text(_ Mary and Charles Lamb_).
9365137 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart? Sept.
9365154 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart? July 4 Mr. Hazlitt''s text(_ Mary and Charles Lamb_).
9365197 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hazlitt?
93652 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge End of May?
9365204 Charles Lamb to John Scott? Feb.
9365212 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth? Early Jan. From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth''s original.
9365223 Mary Lamb to Matilda Betham? Late summer From_ Fraser''s Magazine_.
936523 What monstrous Race is hither tost, Thus to alarm our British Coast, With outcries such as never yet War, or confusion, could beget?
9365251 Charles Lamb to Thomas Noon Talfourd(?)
9365252 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge? Summer From the original( Morrison Collection).
9365263A Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge? Autumn Mr. Hazlitt''s text( Bohn).
936528 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge(?
936537, would not the concluding lines of the 1st paragraph be well omitted--& it go on"So to sad sympathies"& c.?
936539 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey? Nov.
93654 Can I, who loved my Beloved But for the"scorn was in her eye,"Can I be moved for my Beloved, When she"returns me sigh for sigh?"
936549 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge? Jan.
936549 Thus shall our healths do others good, While we ourselves do all we wou''d, For freed from envy, and from care, What would we be, but what we are?
936554 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge? April 16 or 17 Mr. Hazlitt''s text( Bohn).
936555 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge? Spring Mr. Hazlitt''s text( Bohn) with alterations.
936558 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning? May 25 59 Charles Lamb to J. M. Gutch No date From Mr. G. A. Gutch''s original.
936560 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge? Late July Mr. Hazlitt''s text( Bohn).
936585 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning? April Mr. Hazlitt''s text( Bohn).
936588 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning? Aug.
936591,"moveless": is that as good as"moping"?--8, would it not read better omitting those 2 lines last but 6 about Inspiration?
936593 Charles Lamb to John Rickman? Nov.
936594 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning? Feb.
936596 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning? End of April Mr. Hazlitt''s text( Bohn) with alterations.
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9365? Early Jan., 1815.]
9365? End of April, 1802.]
9365A pretty sort of an office truly.--Shall I come?
9365About a harmless play why all this fright?
9365After a little time the comptroller looked down, looked up and said to Wordsworth,"Do n''t you think, sir, Milton was a great genius?"
9365After an awful pause the comptroller said,"Do n''t you think Newton a great genius?"
9365All the while, until Monkhouse succeeded, we could hear Lamb struggling in the painting- room and calling at intervals,"Who is that fellow?
9365Am I not unlucky?
9365Am I taking too great a liberty in begging you to send 4 as follows, and reserve 2 for me when I come home?
9365Am I the life and soul of every company I come into?
9365Am I to understand by her letter, that she sends a_ kiss_ to Eliza Buckingham?
9365Among all your quaint readings did you ever light upon Walton''s"Complete Angler"?
9365An epic poem of 800[?
9365An''t you glad about Tuthill?
9365And by what_ day_--coach could I come soonest and nearest to Stowey?
9365And does not Southey use too often the expletives"did"and"does"?
9365And does the face- dissolving curfew sound at twelve?
9365And does the lonely glade Still court the foot- steps of the fair- hair''d maid?
9365And how does the coach- maker''s daughter?
9365And how is he, in the way of home comforts?--I mean, is he very happy with Mrs. Stoddart?
9365And in sober sense what makes you so long from among us, Manning?
9365And now, when shall I catch a glimpse of your honest face- to- face countenance again-- your fine_ dogmatical sceptical_ face, by punch- light?
9365And then David Hartley was unwell; and how is the small philosopher, the minute philosopher?
9365And then, when grown up,''Is this your son, sir?''
9365And what do they do when they an''t stealing?
9365And wherefore in this barren shade Thy hidden thoughts with sorrow feed?
9365Apollyon I could have borne, though he stands for the devil; but who is Apollidon?
9365Apropos, are you a Xtian?
9365Are Wordsworth and his sister gone yet?
9365Are poets so_ few_ in_ this age_, that he must write poetry?
9365Are there not libraries, halls, colleges, books, pictures, statues?
9365Are these atonements?
9365Are they short, to copy without much trouble?
9365Are we NEVER to meet again?
9365Are we not flocci- nauci- what- d''ye- call- em- ists?
9365Are you acquainted with Bowles?
9365Are you acquainted with Massinger?
9365Are you acquainted with Mr. Pearce, and will my taking another letter from you to him be of any service?
9365Are you and the First Consul_ thick_?
9365Are you and your dear Sara-- to me also very dear, because very kind-- agreed yet about the management of little Hartley?
9365Are you not connected with the Crit: Rev:?
9365Are you not in want of anything?
9365Are you not now the happiest family in the world?
9365Are you on some little footing with any of them?
9365Are you still( I fear you are) far from being comfortably settled?
9365Are you yet a Berkleyan?
9365Beaumont?--Sotheby?
9365Besides, what will you do with the son, after all his pursuits and adventures?
9365Besides, who knows that you_ do_ read?
9365Betham''s"Lay of Marie?"
9365Bid Mem''ry, magic child, resume his toy, And Hope''s fond vot''ry seize the distant joy[7]?
9365Brief, and pretty, and tender, is it not?
9365But are you really coming to town?
9365But are you really coming to town?
9365But can not you write pathetically to him, enforcing a speedy mission of your books for literary purposes?
9365But did the animalcule and she crawl over the rubric together, or did they not?
9365But do n''t you conceive all poets after Shakspeare yield to''em in variety of genius?
9365But for oil pictures!--what has he[ to] do with Madonas?
9365But if you do go among[ them] pray contrive to_ stink_ as soon as you can that you may[?
9365But pray did Lord Falkland die before Worcester fight?
9365But should not you read French, or do you?
9365But the truth is, and why should I not confess it?
9365But what art thou?
9365But what is the reason we have so few good Epitaphs after all?
9365But what shall I say of myself?
9365But what''s the use of talking about''em?
9365But who the devil is Matthew of Westminster?
9365But why waste a wish on him?
9365By the way, may not the Ogles of Somersetshire be remotely descended from King Lear?
9365By the way, tell me candidly how you relish This, which they call The lapidary style?
9365By the way, when will our volume come out?
9365By- the- by, where did you pick up that scandalous piece of private history about the angel and the Duchess of Devonshire?
9365COLERIDGE?
9365COLERIDGE[?
9365COLERIDGE[?
9365Ca n''t you keep him out of the way till you want him, as the husband of Isabella is conveniently sent off till his cue comes?
9365Can Arcadians be brought upon knees, creeping and crouching?
9365Can anything go beyond this in extravagance?
9365Can that God whom thy votaries say that thou hast demolished expect more?
9365Can they batter at your judicious ribs till they_ shake_, nothing both to be so shaken?
9365Can thing so fair repentance need?_""Oh!
9365Can we secure a coach home?
9365Can you come down?
9365Can you come to us before nine or at nine that morning?
9365Can you quit these shadows of existence,& come& be a reality to us?
9365Can you recommend me to any more books, easy of access, such as circulating shops afford?
9365Can you send any wishes about the book?
9365Can you, from memory, easily supply me with another?
9365Canst think of any other queries in the solution of which I can give thee satisfaction?
9365Coleridge, I am not trifling, nor are these matter- of- fact[? course] questions only.
9365Colson was perhaps Thomas Coulson, a friend of Sir Humphry Davy and the father of Walter Coulson( born?
9365Come, fair and pretty, tell to me Who in thy lifetime thou mightst be?
9365Concerning the tutorage-- is not the salary low, and absence from your family unavoidable?
9365Cottle read two or three acts out to us, very gravely on both sides, till he came to this heroic touch,--and then he asked what we laughed at?
9365Could not he spend a week at Poole''s before he goes back to Oxford?
9365Could not the Chancellor be petitioned to remove him?
9365Could the blindest Poor Papish have bowed more servilely to his Priest or Casuist?
9365Could you review''em, or get''em reviewed?
9365Dear C.,--Why will you make your visits, which should give pleasure, matter of regret to your friends?
9365Dear Coleridge,--Soon after I wrote to you last, an offer was made me by Gutch( you must remember him?
9365Dear Rickman,--You do not happen to have any place at your disposal which would suit a decayed Literatus?
9365Did it ever come to your brother''s knowledge?
9365Did n''t you see it?
9365Did you ever hear of the invention?
9365Did you ever read Charron on Wisdom?
9365Did you ever read that garrulous, pleasant history?
9365Did you get it?
9365Did you get it?
9365Did you never observe an appearance well known by the name of the man in the moon?
9365Did you seize the grand opportunity of seeing Kosciusko while he was at Bristol?
9365Do I spell that last word right?
9365Do all things continue in the state I left them in Cambridge?
9365Do n''t you find he is always silly about_ poor Giles_, and those abject kind of phrases, which mark a man that looks up to wealth?
9365Do n''t you think Louis the Desirable is in a sort of quandary?
9365Do n''t you think your verses on a Young Ass too trivial a companion for the Religious Musings?
9365Do n''t your mouth water to be here?
9365Do the words"impetuous"and"solemnize"harmonize well in the same line?
9365Do you believe this?
9365Do you ever try it?
9365Do you hear if it is read at all?
9365Do you know Watford in Hertfordshire?
9365Do you know it?
9365Do you know the well- meaning doctor?
9365Do you like Braham''s singing?
9365Do you mean to have anything of that kind?
9365Do you provide any verses on this occasion?
9365Do you publish with Lloyd or without him?
9365Do you remember that you are to come to us to- night?
9365Do you take the Pun?
9365Do you understand me?
9365Do you want any books that I can procure for you?
9365Do you want it soon, or shall I wait till some one travels your way?
9365Do you?
9365Do your night parties still flourish?
9365Does Lamb mean"And yet, I dare say,_ I know as much_ as Von Slagel_ did_"?
9365Does any one read at Canton?
9365Does she know where she is by this time?
9365Excuse the cover being not_ or fa_, is not that french?
9365Exil''d in disgrace, Find''st thou in foreign realms some happier place[3]?
9365Fie on sluggards, what is thy Sara doing?
9365From the frankness of her manner, I am convinced she is a person I could make a friend of; why should not you?
9365Going about the streets with a lantern, like Diogenes, looking for an honest man?
9365Groans not her Chariot o''er its onward way?"
9365HUME?]
9365Had not you better come and set up here?
9365Had you any scheme, or was it, as G. Dyer says, en passant?
9365Has Sara no poems to publish?
9365Has he exhausted his stores of tender plaintiveness?
9365Has not Master Southey spoke very slightingly in his preface and disparagingly of Cowper''s Homer?--what makes him reluctant to give Cowper his fame?
9365Hath not Bethlehem College a fair action for non- residence against such professors?
9365Have I not enough, without your mountains?
9365Have I thanked you, though, yet, for Peter Bell?
9365Have these things been?
9365Have these things been?
9365Have you any commands or commendations to the metaphysician?
9365Have you cured it?
9365Have you got a theatre?
9365Have you let that intention go?
9365Have you made it up with Southey yet?
9365Have you met with a new poem called the"Pursuits of Literature?"
9365Have you poets among you?
9365Have you read the Ballad called"Leonora,"in the second Number of the"Monthly Magazine"?
9365Have you read"Coelebs?"
9365Have you received one from a Cornet Burgoine?
9365Have you scratched him out of your will yet?
9365Have you seen Bowles''s new poem on"Hope?"
9365Have you seen a man guillotined yet?
9365Have you seen it, or shall I lend you a copy?
9365Have you seen poor Miss Betham''s"Vignettes"?
9365Have you seen the new edition of Burns?
9365Have you seen_ Christabel_ since its publication?
9365Have you time and inclination to go to work upon it-- or is it too late-- or do you think it needs none?
9365Have you trampled on the Cross yet?
9365Have you_ room_ for me,_ leisure_ for me, and are you all pretty well?
9365He has a friend, I understand, who is now at the head of the Admiralty; why may he not return, and make a fortune here?
9365He is at present under the medical care of a Mr. Gilman( Killman?)
9365How are my cousins, the Gladmans of Wheathamstead, and farmer Bruton?
9365How can omnipresence be affirmed of anything in part?
9365How canst thou translate the language of cat- monkeys?
9365How could Burns miss the series of lines from 42 to 49?
9365How did the pearls, and the fine court finery, bear the fatigues of the voyage, and how often have they been worn and admired?
9365How do the Lions go on?
9365How do you all do, amanuenses both-- marital and sororal?
9365How do you go on, and how many new ones have you had lately?
9365How do you like my way of writing with two Inks?
9365How do you like the Mandarinesses?
9365How do you like this in an old play?
9365How do you like this little epigram?
9365How does Miss Chambers do?''
9365How does Mrs. Field get on in her geography?
9365How does that same Life go on in your parts?
9365How does your Calendar prosper?
9365How easy, as you come from Kensington(_ à propos_, how is your excellent family?)
9365How is Ball?
9365How is Dorothy?
9365How is Edith?
9365How is Mr. Ball?
9365How is Mrs.[ M.]?
9365How many more new letters are still to come to light, who shall say?
9365How often must I tell you never to do any needle work for any body but me?
9365How- do?
9365Hume?]
9365Hylas has[?
9365I am also obliged to you, I believe, for a review in the"Annual,"am I not?
9365I am sometimes curious to know what progress you make in that same"Calendar:"whether you insert the nine worthies and Whittington?
9365I believe you have heard us say we like him?
9365I can conceive Pindar( I do not mean to compare myself[ to]_ him_) by the command of Hiero, the Sicilian tyrant( was not he the tyrant of some place?
9365I certainly invented that conceit, and its coincidence with fact is incidental[?
9365I could be content to receive money, or clothes, or a joint of meat from a friend; why should he not send me a dinner as well as a dessert?
9365I did indite a splenetic letter, but did the black Hypocondria never gripe_ thy_ heart, till them hast taken a friend for an enemy?
9365I did not distinctly understand you,--you do n''t mean to make an actual ploughman of him?
9365I do n''t remember, he_ says_ black: but could Milton imagine them to be yellow?
9365I expect Manning of Cambridge in town to- night-- will you fulfil your promise of meeting him at my house?
9365I have heard a waspish punster say,"Sir, why did you not laugh at my jest?"
9365I humbly represented to him that his own eyes were dark[?
9365I mean, when we mean[?
9365I should like you, too, a good deal to enlarge the most striking part, as it might have been, of the poem--"Is it idleness?"
9365I think a letter from Maison Magnan( is that a person or a thing?)
9365I think if you could do any thing for George in the way of an office( God knows whether you can in any haste[?
9365I think it would draw another third volume of Dodsley out of me; but you say you do n''t want any English books?
9365I wish I was leprous& black jaundiced skin- over, and[?
9365I wish they did not resemble the latter in their scarceness.--And how does little David Hartley?
9365I write plainly about him, and he would stare and frown finely if he read this treacherous epistle, but I really am anxious about him, and that[?
9365I''m glad to see you like my wife, however; you''ll come and see her, ha?"
9365II"Whether the archangel Uriel_ could_ knowingly affirm an untruth, and whether, if he_ could_, he_ would_?"
9365IV"Whether the seraphim ardentes do not manifest their goodness by the way of vision and theory?
9365If God''s judgments now fail to take away from me the heart of stone, what more grievous trials ought I not to expect?
9365If with any, why do you delay to notice White''s book?
9365If you do this, she will tell your brother, you will say; and what then, quotha?
9365If you do, can you put us in a way how to send it?
9365If you had been with us, would you have laughed the whole time like Charles and Miss Rickman or gone to sleep as Southey and Rickman did?
9365If you know that at that time he had any such intention, will you write instantly?
9365If you prize them ought, Why should my_ Labour_, not enough be thought, Unlesse, I adde_ Expences_ to my paines?
9365Imprimis, is there any chance of success in application to Parliament for a reward?
9365In all his distress he was sweetly and exemplarily calm and master of himself,--and seemed perfectly free from his disorder.-- How do you all at?
9365In particular, I fear lest you should prefer printing my first sonnet, as you have done more than once,"did the wand of Merlin wave"?
9365In the ignorant present time, who can answer for the future man?
9365In what shape and how does it come into public?
9365In"The Force of Prayer,"which opens with the question-- What is good for a bootless bene?
9365Is Lloyd with you yet?--are you intimate with Southey?
9365Is Mr. Moncrief doing well there?
9365Is he likely to make a very good fortune, and in how long a time?
9365Is it a farm you have got?
9365Is it a feeling to be exposed on theatres to mothers and daughters?
9365Is it an untoward fatality( speaking humanly) that does this for you, a stubborn irresistible concurrence of events?
9365Is it as big as Old London Wall by Bedlam?
9365Is it as cold at Winterslow as it is here?
9365Is it not hard,"this dread dependance on the low bred mind?"
9365Is it the best sort of feeling?
9365Is life, with such limitations, worth trying?
9365Is now meditating a book:"Why should every creature make books but I?"
9365Is the Patriot come yet?
9365Is the chair empty?
9365Is the metaphysic well( without a bottom) drained dry?
9365Is the phrase classic?
9365Is there a possible chance for such an one as me to realize in this world, such friendships?
9365Is there no law against these rascals?
9365Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
9365Is there no_ lineal descendant_ of Prester John?
9365Is your being with, or near, your poor dear Mother necessary to her comfort?
9365Is_ morals_ a subject so exhausted, that he must quit that line?
9365It is a delicate subject, but is Mr.*** really married?
9365It will be unexpected, and it will give her pleasure; or do you think it will look whimsical at all?
9365Itidem comparationes istas tuas satis callidas et lepidas certè novi: sed quid hoc ad verum?
9365Jack,"& c.& c.& c. Now you have it all- how do you like it?
9365John Braham(? 1774- 1856), the great tenor and the composer of"The Death of Nelson."
9365LETTER 137 MARY LAMB TO SARAH STODDART[?
9365LETTER 147 MARY LAMB TO SARAH STODDART[?
9365LETTER 197 MARY LAMB TO SARAH HAZLITT[?
9365LETTER 204 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN SCOTT[ P.M.(?
9365LETTER 259 CHARLES LAMB TO JOSEPH COTTLE London, India House,[?
9365Lamb got up, and taking a candle, said,"Sir, will you allow me to look at your phrenological development?"
9365Lamb seemed to take no notice; but all of a sudden he roared out,"Which is the gentleman we are going to lose?"
9365Lamb who was dozing by the fire turned round and said,"Pray, sir, did you say Milton was a great genius?"
9365Lamb?"
9365Laugh, e''en at kings, and mock each prudish rule, The merry motley priest of ridicule[6]?
9365Letter 251 Charles Lamb to Thomas Noon Talefourd(?)
9365Light Hymen''s torch through ev''ry blooming grove,[4] And tinge each flow''ret with the blush of love?
9365Like Horatio with Calista, he might wring his[ her?]
9365Lit._, Sara Coleridge writes, concerning children and domestic evenings,"''Did a very little babby make a very great noise?''
9365Little Fenwick( you do n''t see the connexion of ideas here, how the devil should you?)
9365Lloyd objects to"pourtray''d in his face,"--do you?
9365Lloyd, it minded me of Falkland in the"Rivals,""Am I full of wit and humour?
9365Loving all these as much as I can love poetry new to me, what could I wish or desire more or extravagantly in a new volume?
9365Macbeth''s witch has a good advice to a magic[?
9365Manning wrote:"I am actually thinking of Independent Tartary as I write this, but you go out and skate-- you go out and walk some times?
9365Manning, your letter dated Hottentots, August the what- was- it?
9365Mars, Bacchus, or Apollo?
9365May I, can I, shall I, come so soon?
9365Moreover, I certainly recognise that your comparisons are acute and witty; but what has this to do with truth?
9365Mr. Hook is author of several pieces,"Tekeli,"& c. You know what_ hooks and eyes_ are, do n''t you?
9365My Tragedy will be a medley( as[?
9365My dear friend, Before I end,-- Have you any More orders for Don Giovanni To give Him that doth live Your faithful Zany?
9365N.B.--Dirty books[? backs], smeared leaves, and dogs''ears, will be rather a recommendation than otherwise.
9365Need I turn over to blot a fresh clean half- sheet?
9365Neither could Lycidas, or the Chorics( how do you like the word?)
9365No doubt, many sons might feel a wayward pleasure in the honourable guilt of their mothers; but is it a true feeling?
9365Now love to linger in the daisied vale, Then rise sublime in legendary tale[16]?
9365Nursed amid her noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke-- what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes?
9365Of this part a little is left, but so as without conjuration no man could tell what I was driving it[?
9365Oh, where be now those sports And infant play- games?
9365Once more she hears the well- loved sounds of,''How do you do, Mrs. Reynolds?
9365Only let me ask, is not that thought and those words in Young,"Stands in the Sun"?
9365Only utter[?
9365Or are you doing any thing towards it?
9365Or better perhaps, BOXES, in old English character, like Madoc or Thalaba?
9365Or dost thou soar, in youthful ardour strong, And bid some female hero live in song[8]?
9365Or dost thou still though banish''d from the town, In Britain love to linger, though unknown?
9365Or e''en regardless of the poet''s praise, Deck the fair magazine with blooming lays[18]?
9365Or have they any?
9365Or have thieves no politics?
9365Or perhaps the Comic Muse?
9365Or rather do you not write in the Critical?
9365Or shall I have no Apollo?--simply nothing?
9365Or steal from beauty''s lip th''ambrosial kiss, Paint the domestic grief, or social bliss[10]?
9365Or wilt thou spread the light of Leo''s age, And smooth, as woman''s guide, Tansillo''s page[12]?
9365Or, being pardoned, can she not teaze her husband to get him banished?
9365Or, faithful still to nature''s sober joy, Smile on the labours of some Farmer''s Boy[17]?
9365Postmark?
9365Pray are you King''s or Queen''s men in Sidney?
9365Pray tell your wife that a note of interrogation on the superscription of a letter is highly ungrammatical-- she proposes writing my name_ Lamb_?
9365Pray, are the Winterslow Estates entailed?
9365Pray, is it a part of your sincerity to show my letters to Lloyd?
9365Quid tibi equidem cum uno vel altero Caesare, cùm universi Duodecim ad comparationes tuas se ultro tulerint?
9365Quoth Jack,"Why what the devil storm''s a- brewing?
9365Recall, employment sweet, thy youthful day, Then wake, at Mithra''s call, the mystic lay[14]?
9365Rogers''poem begins:--"Say what remains when hope is fled?"
9365Samuel Taylor C. had not deigned an answer; was it impertinent of me to avail myself of that offered source of knowledge?
9365Saturday[? June 3].
9365Shall I appoint a time to see you here when he is from home?
9365Shall I send them, or may I expect to see you in town?
9365Should he go on acting upon this theory, which of our shelves is safe?"
9365Sing winter, summer- sweets, the vernal air, Or the soft Sofa, to delight the fair[5]?
9365Singly what am I to do?
9365Sleep, too, I ca n''t get for these damn''d winds of a night: and without sleep and rest what should ensue?
9365Some of Lloyd''s lines on Coleridge run thus:-- How shall I fitly speak on such a theme?
9365Southey(?)
9365Spirit of Spenser!--was the wanderer wrong?"
9365Still in her locks the gales of summer sigh?
9365Suppose you were to write to that good- natured heathen--"or is he a_ shadow_?"
9365THESES QUAEDAM THEOLOGICAE I"Whether God loves a lying angel better than a true man?"
9365TO CHARLES LLOYD, AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR Alone, obscure, without a friend, A cheerless, solitary thing, Why seeks my Lloyd the stranger out?
9365TO SARA AND HER SAMUEL Was it so hard a thing?
9365Teach fancy how through nature''s walks to stray, And wake, to simpler theme, the lyric lay[9]?
9365Tell me how I shall send my packet to you?--by what conveyance?--by Longman, Short- man, or how?
9365Tell, and would not that in the present state of discussions be likely to_ tell_?
9365That is not my poetry, but Quarles''s; but have n''t you observed that the rarest things are the least obvious?
9365The 2d Antistrophe( what is the meaning of these things?)
9365The beginning was awakening and striking; the ending is soothing and solemn-- Are you serious when you ask whether you shall admit this ode?
9365The concluding line, is it not a personif: without use?
9365The expression in the 2d"more happy to be unhappy in hell"--is it not very quaint?
9365The little room( was it not a little one?)
9365The most difficult thing seems to be, What to do with the husband?
9365The reading your lines about it fixed me for a time, a monument, in Harrow Church,( do you know it?)
9365The stanzas from which Lamb quotes run:--"What is good for a bootless bene?"
9365The three poems were"Address to a Child"( beginning,"What way does the Wind come from?
9365Then what puddings have you?
9365There''s your friend Tuthill has got away from France-- you remember France?
9365These, Coleridge, are the few sketches I have thought worth preserving; how will they relish thus detached?
9365They do n''t thieve all day long, do they?
9365They were the"Description of a Forest Life,""The General Lover"("What is it you love?")
9365Thy Watchman''s, thy bellman''s, verses, I do retort upon thee, thou libellous varlet,--why, you cried the hours yourself, and who made you so proud?
9365Till pleas''d, you make in fair translated song, Odin descend, and rouse the fairy throng[13]?
9365To come to the point then, and hasten into the middle of things, have you a copy of your Algebra to give away?
9365To familiar faces we do associate familiar scenes and accustomed objects; but what hath Apollidon and his sea- nymphs to do in these affairs?
9365To have made free with these cattle, where was the harm?
9365To relieve the former part of the Play, could not some sensible images, some work for the Eye, be introduced?
9365Ulterius progrediri[?
9365Unfold the Paradise of ancient lore[15], Or mark the shipwreck from the sounding shore?
9365V"Whether the higher order of seraphim illuminati ever_ sneer_?"
9365VI"Whether pure intelligences can_ love_, or whether they love anything besides pure intellect?"
9365VIII"Whether an''immortal and amenable soul''may not come_ to be damned at last, and the man never suspect it beforehand_?"
9365W. standing near the shrouds or any place of safety at the moment of sinking?
9365W._ now) Plato''s double animal parted never longed[?
9365Was Coleridge often with you?
9365Was n''t you sorry for Lord Nelson?
9365We have got a picture of Charles; do you think your brother would like to have it?
9365We have nobody about us that cares for Poetry, and who will rear grapes when he shall be the sole eater?
9365We next discussed the question, whether Pope was a poet?
9365Well, and how does the land of thieves use you?
9365Well, and how far is Saint Valery from Paris; and do you get wine and walnuts tolerable; and the vintage, does it suffer from the wet?
9365Were his limbs ever found?
9365Wesley( have you read his life?
9365What Review are you connected with?
9365What am I to do with such people?
9365What can I do till you send word what priced and placed house you should like?
9365What character does it bear?
9365What do I say?
9365What do the rascals mean?
9365What do you in Shropshire when so many fine pictures are a- going, a- going every day in London?
9365What do you intend to do about Mr. Turner?
9365What do you mean by calling Madame Mara harlot& naughty things?
9365What do you think of a life of G. Dyer?
9365What do you think?
9365What followed then?
9365What had you to do with one Caesar, or a second, when the whole Twelve offered themselves to your comparison?
9365What has Charles done that nobody invites him to the wedding?
9365What has happened to learned Trismegist?--Doth he take it in ill part, that his humble friend did not comply with his courteous invitation?
9365What have you to do among such Ethiopians?
9365What is Mr. Turner?
9365What is become of Cowper?
9365What is become of Moschus?
9365What is become of the rich Auditors in Albemarle Street?
9365What is gone of that frank- hearted circle, Morgan and his cos- lettuces?
9365What is the general opinion of it?
9365What is the matter between you and your good- natured maid you used to boast of?
9365What is your proper address?
9365What new idea is gained by this Title, but one subversive of all credit, which the tale should force upon us, of its truth?
9365What other news is there, Mary?--What puns have I made in the last fortnight?
9365What pieces are performed?
9365What progress do you make in your hymns?
9365What right have I to obtrude all this upon you?
9365What says Coleridge?
9365What shall I say to your Dactyls?
9365What testimonials shall I bring of my being worthy of such friendship?
9365What the devil!--are men nothing but word- trumpets?
9365When I laughed at the"miserable man crawling from beneath the coverture,"I wonder I[?
9365When do you come back full of riches and renown, with the regret of all the honest, and all the other part of the colony?
9365When shall I ever see you in them?
9365When shall scepter''d SLAUGHTER cease?
9365When shall we two smoke again?
9365When will he be delivered of his new epic?
9365When, and where, shall I ever see you again?
9365Where am I to look for''em?
9365Where is Coleridge?
9365Where is the Life?
9365Where the joyous troops Of children, and the haunts I did so love?
9365Where will you get holly to stick in your churches, or churches to stick your dried tea- leaves( that must be the substitute) in?
9365Wherefore to day art singing in mine ear Sad songs were made so long ago, my dear?
9365Whether God loves a lying Angel better than a true Man?
9365Whether Honesty be an angelic virtue?
9365Whether an immortal and amenable soul may not come to be damned at last, and the man never suspect it beforehand?
9365Whether pure intelligences can love?
9365Whether the Archangel Uriel_ could_ affirm an untruth?
9365Whether the Seraphim Ardentes do not manifest their virtues by the way of vision and theory?
9365Whether the higher order of Seraphim Illuminati ever sneer?
9365Who art thou, fair one, who usurp''st the place Of Blanch, the Lady of the matchless grace?
9365Who ever caught you, Dyer, designing a landscape, or taking a likeness?
9365Who is to read them, I do n''t know: who is it that reads Tales of Terror and Mysteries of Udolpho?
9365Who lookd over your proof sheets, and left_ ordebo_ in that line of Virgil?
9365Who put your marine sonnet and about Browne into"Blackwood"?
9365Whose head is competent to these things?
9365Why did you not add the Waggoner?
9365Why do you never drop in?
9365Why is he wandering on the sea?
9365Why is not your poem on Burns in the Monthly Magazine?
9365Why not adopt it, Coleridge?
9365Why not your father?
9365Why omit 73?
9365Why sing sad songs were made so long ago?
9365Why sleep the Watchman''s answers to that_ Godwin_?
9365Why sleep thy Bolts unhurl''d?"
9365Why the devil am I never to have a chance of scribbling my own free thoughts, verse or prose, again?
9365Why wert not thou born in my father''s dwelling?
9365Will Hartley be with you?
9365Will Miss H. pardon our not replying at length to her kind Letter?
9365Will none of you ever be in London again?
9365Will they, have they, did they, come safe?
9365Will you and Mrs. R. join the party?
9365Will you answer me two questions, and return them with the papers as soon as you can?
9365Will you drop in to- morrow night?
9365Will you excuse one short extract?
9365Will you reject all or any of them?
9365Will you some day soon write a few words just to tell me how they all are and all you know concerning them?
9365With modest pencil paint the vernal scene, The rustic lovers, and the village green?
9365Wordsworth seemed asking himself,"Who is this?"
9365Would not the people have ejected the Brunswicks some day in his favour?
9365You ask me about the"Farmer''s Boy"--don''t you think the fellow who wrote it( who is a shoemaker) has a poor mind?
9365You have seen"Beauties of Shakespear?"
9365You knew Dick Hopkins, the swearing scullion of Caius?
9365You will be good friends with us, will you not?
9365You will not make him jealous of his own son?
9365You will not refuse us them next time we send for them?
9365You would laugh, or you would cry, perhaps both, to see us sit together, looking at each other with long and rueful faces, and saying,"how do you do?"
9365You''ll come some day, wo n''t you?
9365Your picture of idiocy, with the sugar- loaf head, is exquisite; but are you not too severe upon our more favoured brethren in fatuity?
9365Yours very truly, C. L. Do you observe the delicacy of not signing my full name?
9365[ Footnote 4: In_ Spain!!?]
9365[ Sidenote: Is"_ morbid_ wantonness of woe"a good and allowable phrase?]
9365[_ Here is a paragraph erased._] What do you think of smoking?
9365[_ Lamb here erases six lines._] Is it not a pity so much fine writing should be erased?
9365_ A propos_( is it pedantry, writing to a Frenchman, to express myself sometimes by a French word, when an English one would not do as well?
9365_ Allons_--or what is it you say, instead of_ good- bye_?
9365_ Are you happy?
9365_ Ecquid meditatur Archimedes?_ What is Euclid doing?
9365_ Ecquid meditatur Archimedes?_ What is Euclid doing?
9365_ I_ rank thee with Alves, Latinè Helvetius, or any of his cursed crew?
9365_ The bed was very cold last night._ Feb. 21[? 22].
9365_ What god_ does he most resemble?
9365_ racemi nimium alte pendentes_?
9365and David''s mother?
9365and all of you?
9365and do you not repent going out?_ I wish I could see you for one hour only.
9365and has he found a gargle to his mind?
9365and how do you like him?
9365and how do you pass your time in your extra- judicial intervals?
9365and how go on the little rogue''s teeth?
9365and if he_ could_ whether he_ would_?
9365and is there any prospect of her recovery?
9365and what do you intend to do about it?
9365and what does your worship know about farming?
9365and what is likely to come of him?
9365and what the devil is the matter with your Aunt?
9365and whether practice be not a sub- celestial and merely human virtue?
9365and whether practice be not a sub- celestial, and merely human virtue?"
9365and"how do you do?"
9365are both yours blanks?
9365are men all tongue and ear?
9365are the women_ all_ painted, and the men_ all_ monkeys?
9365brick and stone walls in her way, which she can by no means eat through?
9365can you leave off harassing yourself to please a thankless multitude, who know nothing of you,& begin at last to live to yourself& your friends?
9365does she take any notice of you?
9365has he carried away any of the_ tables_, Becky?"
9365has he discovered Mr. Curse- a- rat''s correspondence?
9365his posthumous works and letters?
9365how- do?
9365is Magna Charta then a mockery?
9365is it as good as hanging?
9365is it merely to fill up his letters as he filled ours with Lord Nelson''s exploits?
9365my friend, I think sometimes, could I recall the days that are past, which among them should I choose?
9365not] hang a[?
9365nuts in the Will''s mouth too hard for her to crack?
9365or Patrick''s Pilgrim?
9365or are there not a_ few_ that look like_ rational_ of_ both sexes_?
9365or are they made of packthread?
9365or can a Frenchman_ laugh_?
9365or has any new thing come out against you?
9365or is he the same in this last as in all his former pieces?
9365or is it only such as Young in one of his_ better moments_ might have writ?
9365or is it the Pedlar and the Priest that are?
9365or lies the fault, as I fear it does, in your own mind?
9365or not rather to be reckoned among those qualities which the Schoolmen term''_ Virtutes minus splendidoe et terrae et hominis participes_''?
9365or what rare witchery, Impregning with delights the charmed air, Enlighted up the semblance of a smile In those fine eyes?
9365or"is n''t it better to lean over a stile in a sort of careless easy half astronomical position eyeing the blue expanse?"
9365said I,"Who are you talking of?"
9365sore lets,_ impedimenta viarum_, no thoroughfares?
9365they have sympathised in our sorrow as tenderly as if they had grown up in the same[ town?]
9365was_ he_ not an elevated character?)
9365what could he mean?
9365what is such a letter to you?
9365what shall I say next?
9365what things are perfect?"
9365what will your Mother think of us?
9365what you do or how you can manage when two Saints meet and quarrel for precedency?
9365whither[ wherefore] does the Northern Conqueress stay?
9365will she pardon my inefficiency?
9365would not"dulcet"fruit be less harsh, or some other friendly bi- syllable?