01c. 1804 ADThe red-letter days now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
02c. 1804 ADFor with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
04c. 1804 ADSentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
07c. 1804 ADThe pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling—a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
11c. 1804 ADYour absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
13c. 1804 ADI have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days. All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
16c. 1804 ADWho first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . Sabbathless Satan!Charles Lamb / quote ↗
17c. 1804 ADI like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
18c. 1804 ADHe might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
21c. 1804 ADReturning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."Charles Lamb / quote ↗
23c. 1804 ADA worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
24c. 1804 ADIn tale or history your beggar is ever the first antipode to your king.Charles Lamb / quote ↗
