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The "Popular Fallacies," which in course of time followed, and were eventually added to the second series and re-published, are in manner essays also on a small scale, brief and dealing with abstract subjects more than the "Elia." It may be interesting to know that Lamb's two favorites were "That home is home, though it is never so homely," and "That we should rise with the lark."
He did not think that greatness lay in the "thews and sinews," or in the bulk alone. When Nelson was walking on the quay at Yarmouth, the mob cried out in derision, "What! make that little fellow a captain!" "He was the only pretence of a great man we had." The large stage blusterer and ostentatious drawcansir were never, in Lamb's estimation, models for heroes.
I've never been a friend of Henrietta Lamb's, though, and I almost wish she weren't taking such pains to be a friend of yours." "Oh, but she's not. It's all on account of " "On Mildred's account," Alice finished this for him, coolly. "Yes, of course." "It's on account of the two families," he was at pains to explain, a little awkwardly.
In Captain Keller's library she found excellent books, Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare," and better still Montaigne. After the first year or so of elementary work she met her pupil on equal terms, and they read and enjoyed good books together. Besides the selection of good books, there is one other cause for Miss Keller's excellence in writing, for which Miss Sullivan deserves unlimited credit.
I have bought a new looking-glass and razor-case on the strength of these compliments, and am meditating on the expediency of having my hair cut in the Burlington Arcade, rather than in Lamb's Conduit Street. As Richard says, "Since I am crept in favour with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost." But what nonsense I write, and in times that make many merry men look grave! Ever yours
But we may feel confident that her own wishes were consulted in the matter. Lamb's share in Mrs. I wrote only the Witch Aunt, the first going to Church, and the final Story, about a little Indian girl in a ship." The little book was well received, and was quietly popular for some years, running into eight editions by 1823.
And poor Schubert, after his short but brilliant life, laid it down at the early age of thirty-two; his sole property at his death consisting of his manuscripts, the clothes he wore, and sixty-three florins in money. Some of Lamb's finest writings were produced amidst deep sorrow, and Hood's apparent gaiety often sprang from a suffering heart. As he himself wrote,
If moved by some self-confident speculations regarding the constancy of nature, he had entered through the portals of the twilight into that awful night, he would have perished while his neighbours were preserved: not that a lamb's blood had power to save, but because this man refused to take God's way of being saved, and trusted in his own.
So it is that, though I am no worshipper of the old, I think the older gardeners had in some ways a better practice of the art than we have, for they planted not for the eye alone but for the nose and the sense of taste and even, in growing such plants as the lamb's tongue, to gratify, curiously, the sense of touch. They loved the scented herbs, and appropriately called them simples.
The essay was printed in the London Magazine for December, 1821, six years after "the estate has passed into more prudent hands." And lastly, the following letter in Charles Lamb's own handwriting, found with the deeds which are in my possession, clinches the matter: "MR. SARGUS, This is to give you notice that I have parted with the Cottage to Mr.
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