Charles Lamb - The Collected Works of Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare, Essays of Elia, The Adventures of Ulysses, The King and Queen of Hearts, Poetry for Children, Letters

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ROSAMUND GRAY ROSAMUND GRAY Table of Contents (Written 1797–1798. First Edition 1798. Text of 1818) CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII

CURIOUS FRAGMENTS, CURIOUS FRAGMENTS, Table of Contents Extracted from a common-place book, which belonged to Robert Burton, the famous Author of The Anatomy of Melancholy (1800. First Published 1802. Text of 1818) EXTRACT I EXTRACT II EXTRACT III

EARLY JOURNALISM EARLY JOURNALISM Table of Contents I.—G. F. COOKE IN "RICHARD THE THIRD" II.—GRAND STATE BED III.—FABLE FOR TWELFTH DAY IV.—THE LONDONER

CHARACTERS OF DRAMATIC WRITERS, CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKSPEARE. CHARACTERS OF DRAMATIC WRITERS, CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKSPEARE. Table of Contents (1808. Text of 1818) When I selected for publication, in 1808, Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare, the kind of extracts which I was anxious to give were, not so much passages of wit and humour, though the old plays are rich in such, as scenes of passion, sometimes of the deepest quality, interesting situations, serious descriptions, that which is more nearly allied to poetry than to wit, and to tragic rather than to comic poetry. The plays which I made choice of were, with few exceptions, such as treat of human life and manners, rather than masques and Arcadian pastorals, with their train of abstractions, unimpassioned deities, passionate mortals—Claius, and Medorus, and Amintas, and Amarillis. My leading design was, to illustrate what may be called the moral sense of our ancestors. To shew in what manner they felt, when they placed themselves by the power of imagination in trying circumstances, in the conflicts of duty and passion, or the strife of contending duties; what sort of loves and enmities theirs were; how their griefs were tempered, and their full-swoln joys abated: how much of Shakspeare shines in the great men his contemporaries, and how far in his divine mind and manners he surpassed them and all mankind. I was also desirous to bring together some of the most admired scenes of Fletcher and Massinger, in the estimation of the world the only dramatic poets of that age entitled to be considered after Shakspeare, and, by exhibiting them in the same volume with the more impressive scenes of old Marlowe, Heywood, Tourneur, Webster, Ford, and others, to shew what we had slighted, while beyond all proportion we had been crying up one or two favourite names. From the desultory criticisms which accompanied that publication, I have selected a few which I thought would best stand by themselves, as requiring least immediate reference to the play or passage by which they were suggested.

ON THE INCONVENIENCES RESULTING FROM BEING HANGED

ON THE DANGER OF CONFOUNDING MORAL WITH PERSONAL DEFORMITY; WITH A HINT TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE FRAMING OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR APPREHENDING OFFENDERS

ON THE AMBIGUITIES ARISING FROM PROPER NAMES

ON THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF HOGARTH; WITH SOME REMARKS ON A PASSAGE IN THE WRITINGS OF THE LATE MR. BARRY

ON THE CUSTOM OF HISSING AT THE THEATRES, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A CLUB OF DAMNED AUTHORS

ON BURIAL SOCIETIES; AND THE CHARACTER OF AN UNDERTAKER

ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKSPEARE, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR FITNESS FOR STAGE REPRESENTATION

SPECIMENS FROM THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN

EDAX ON APPETITE

HOSPITA ON THE IMMODERATE INDULGENCE OF THE PLEASURES OF THE PALATE

THE GOOD CLERK, A CHARACTER; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF "THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN"

MÉMOIR OF ROBERT LLOYD

CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD

RECOLLECTIONS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL

TABLE-TALK IN THE EXAMINER

REVIEW OF THE EXCURSION; A POEM

ON THE MELANCHOLY OF TAILORS

ON NEEDLE-WORK

ON THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE WITHER

FIVE DRAMATIC CRITICISMS

FOUR REVIEWS

SIR THOMAS MORE

THE CONFESSIONS OF H. F. V. H. DELAMORE, Esq.

THE GENTLE GIANTESS

LETTER TO AN OLD GENTLEMAN WHOSE EDUCATION HAS BEEN NEGLECTED

RITSON VERSUS JOHN SCOTT THE QUAKER

LETTER OF ELIA TO ROBERT SOUTHEY

GUY FAUX

NUGÆ CRITICÆ

ORIGINAL LETTER OF JAMES THOMSON

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF MR. LISTON

A VISION OF HORNS

THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEFUNCT[49]

UNITARIAN PROTESTS

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MR. MUNDEN

THE "LEPUS" PAPERS

REFLECTIONS IN THE PILLORY

THE LAST PEACH

"ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE"

THE RELIGION OF ACTORS

A POPULAR FALLACY

REMINISCENCES OF JUKE JUDKINS, ESQ., OF BIRMINGHAM

CONTRIBUTIONS TO HONE'S EVERY-DAY BOOK AND TABLE BOOK

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

SHAKSPEARE'S IMPROVERS

SATURDAY NIGHT

ESTIMATE OF DE FOE'S SECONDARY NOVELS

CLARENCE SONGS

RECOLLECTIONS OF A LATE ROYAL ACADEMICIAN

THE LATIN POEMS OF VINCENT BOURNE

THE DEATH OF MUNDEN

THOUGHTS ON PRESENTS OF GAME, &c.

TABLE-TALK BY THE LATE ELIA

THE DEATH OF COLERIDGE

CUPID'S REVENGE

APPENDIX

THE MISCELLANY

COMIC TALES, Etc.,

DOG DAYS

THE PROGRESS OF CANT

MR. EPHRAIM WAGSTAFF, HIS WIFE, AND PIPE

REVIEW OF MOXON'S SONNETS

NOTES

APPENDIX

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(Written 1797–1798. First Edition 1798. Text of 1818)

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

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It was noontide. The sun was very hot. An old gentlewoman sat spinning in a little arbour at the door of her cottage. She was blind; and her grandaughter was reading the Bible to her. The old lady had just left her work, to attend to the story of Ruth.

"Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her." It was a passage she could not let pass without a comment . The moral she drew from it was not very new , to be sure. The girl had heard it a hundred times before—and a hundred times more she could have heard it, without suspecting it to be tedious. Rosamund loved her grandmother.

The old lady loved Rosamund too; and she had reason for so doing. Rosamund was to her at once a child and a servant. She had only her left in the world. They two lived together.

They had once known better days. The story of Rosamund's parents, their failure, their folly, and distresses, may be told another time. Our tale hath grief enough in it.