Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, philologist, historian, and civil servant. He is widely recognized for "Essays of Elia," a collection of autobiographical essays, and for "Tales from Shakespeare," which he co-wrote with his sister Mary. Lamb's life was marked by personal challenges, including his sister's mental illness and his own financial struggles. Despite these adversities, he maintained a strong friendship with many of the leading intellectuals of his time, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His writing is characterized by its poignancy, humor, and insight, offering a glimpse into 19th-century London life and the complexities of the human condition. He died in Edmonton, Middlesex.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family’s eye?
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I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature,—a piece of impertinent correspondency,—an odious approximation,—a haunting conscience,—a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.
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A presentation copy, reader,—if haply you are yet innocent of such favours—is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
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Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple,—in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes of her.
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