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Albeit not to be compared with Elia's best and most finished productions, these articles contain some of the best qualities and peculiarities of his genius. Without doubt, all genuine admirers, all true lovers of the gentle, genial, delightful Elia, will be mightily pleased with these productions of his inimitable pen.
Clare remembered Elia's words: 'I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. There were more lions at a 'London Magazine' dinner which Mr. Taylor gave at the end of another week. It was a kind of state reception, and Clare was put for the occasion in pumps and dress-coat.
A great fear was in him that a perverse fate would yet rob them of justice. Elia was dying, and he knew it. He needed no examination to tell him so. It was there, written in the glazing eyes, in the hideous blue pallor stealing over the lad's face. "We're in time, laddie," he said hoarsely, with his mouth close to Elia's ear. "Speak up and say the truth."
This paper, being printed in the same number as that which announced Elia's death, was signed "Elia's Ghost." George's Day. For these letters see Vol. I. of this edition. "On the bat's back ..." From Ariel's song in "The Tempest." Lamb confesses, in at least two of his letters, to a precisely similar plight. London Magazine, June, 1825.
Peter laughed to think that he had expected the boy to understand him. How could he at his age? "I'll give it to you, laddie all of it." "Gee!" Elia's cold eyes lit with sudden greed. "But you'd best say nothing to the folks," Peter added slyly. "Don't let 'em know we're looking for anything." "Sure," cried the boy quickly, with a cunning painful to behold. "They'd steal it. Will Henderson would."
You shall tell Peter what you've told me, and maybe it isn't too late to do something yet. Come along." But the boy tried to drag free. His guilty conscience made him fear Peter, and in a frenzy he struggled to release himself. But Eve was no longer the gentle, indulgent woman he had always known. She was fighting for a life perhaps dearer to her than Elia's.
In the "Reflector," a short-lived periodical set up by Leigh Hunt, and in which Lamb's quaint and beautiful poem, "A Farewell to Tobacco," and his masterly critical essays on "The Tragedies of Shakspeare," and on "The Genius of Hogarth," and other of his early writings, appeared, I find the following characteristic article from Elia's pen.
That's why Jim killed him. Elia's just told me so. He even took these things from from the body after thinking it might save Jim. He brought them to me just now; and he says he's been down at the saloon, and never said a word to help Jim. He said he was frightened to go in. Did Jim tell them it was to save Elia? Oh, surely they can be made to understand it was not wilful wilful murder!
In course of conversation I asked my companion if he thought Lamb had ever been really in love, and he told me interesting things of Hester Savory, a young Quaker girl of Pentonville, who inspired the poem embalming the name of Hester forever, and of Fanny Kelly, the actress with "the divine plain face," who will always live in one of "Elia's" most exquisite essays.
the great and wonderful impersonator of the "Cobbler of Preston" and "Old Dozey," methinks I see this fine actor, this genial and jovial comedian, and his son, gravely and carefully examining the great map of Kent in search of Lupton Magna! Leigh Hunt, in his Autobiography, speaking of some of Elia's contributions to the "London Magazine," thus mentions these two "he-children" of Lamb's:
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