Frases de Charles Lamb (94 citas)

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).

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

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Charles Lamb libro Essays of Elia

Fuente: Essays of Elia

“The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry”

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

“Look upward, Feeble Ones! look up, and trust
That He, who lays this mortal frame in dust,
Still hath the immortal Spirit in His keeping
In Jesus' sight they are not dead, but sleeping”

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Charles Lamb

In his letter to Vincent Novello, November 8, 1830.

“Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.”

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Letter to Coleridge (August 14, 1800)

“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.”

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

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

“Nursed amid her [London's] 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?”

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Letter to Thomas Manning (February 15, 1802)

“And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.”

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

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

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

The Convalescent.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

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

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Letter to Samuel Rogers (December 21, 1833)

“For I hate, yet love thee, so,
That, whichever thing I show,
The plain truth will seem to be
A constrained hyperbole,
And the passion to proceed
More from a mistress than a weed.”

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A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

“Fanny Kelly's divine plain face.”

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Letter to Mrs. Wordsworth (February 18, 1818)

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

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

“This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.”

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Letter to Thomas Manning (December 26, 1815)

“From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.”

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

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

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

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Amicus Redivivus.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.”

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

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

“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”

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Letter to Thomas Manning (February 15, 1802)

“For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.”

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Letter to Coleridge (August 6, 1800)

“In heav'n, the saint nor pity feels, nor care,
For those thus sentenced - pity might disturb
The delicate sense and most divine repose
Of spiritus angelical
Blessed be God,
The measure of his judgments is not fixed
By man's erroneous standard. He discerns
No such inordinate difference and vast
Betwixt the sinner and the saint, to doom
Such disproportion'd fates.
Compared with him,
No man on earth is holy called: they best
Stand in his sight approved, who at his feet
Their little crowns of virtue cast, and yield,
To him of his own works the praise, his due.”

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Composed at midnight, as quoted in The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb, p. 72.

“I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true time, which a man can properly call his own, that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people’s time, not his. The remnant of my poor days, long or short, is at least multiplied for me three-fold. My ten next years, if I stretch so far, will be as long as any preceding thirty.”

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

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