Frases de Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb fue un ensayista inglés de ascendencia galesa, principalmente reconocido por su obra Essays of Elia y por el libro de cuentos Tales from Shakespeare, escrito en colaboración con su hermana, Mary Lamb . Lamb ha sido descrito por E.V. Lucas, su biógrafo principal, como la figura más encantadora de la literatura inglesa, y su influencia en los ensayos ingleses no puede ser subestimada. Charles Lamb fue homenajeado por la Latymer School, escuela que posee seis dependencias, una de las cuales se denomina "Lamb" en su honor. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. febrero 1775 – 27. diciembre 1834
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Frases célebres de Charles Lamb

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“Generalmente se lee para decir que se ha leído.”

Sin fuentes

“La prisa es del diablo; la paciencia es de Dios.”

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Charles Lamb: Frases en inglés

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

Fuente: The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb

“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Poor Relations.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

Charles Lamb libro Essays of Elia

The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

Quoted in "Table Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=LIxUAAAAcAAJ&q=%22greatest+pleasure+I+know+is+to+do+a+good+action+by+stealth+and+to+have+it+found+out+by+accident%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in The Athenaeum magazine (4 January 1834).

“The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry”

Lamb's letter to Charles Cowden Clarke, in summer, 1821. As quoted in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1905). Letter 263.

“I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.”

Written at Cambridge; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

The Convalescent.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”

Letter to Samuel Rogers (December 21, 1833)

“Fanny Kelly's divine plain face.”

Letter to Mrs. Wordsworth (February 18, 1818)

“The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.”

Abraham Hayward, writing in the Edinburgh Review in 1848.
Attributed

“Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Amicus Redivivus.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)