Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . et gainingrather than losing in permanence of charm throughthe circumstance. It was, however, in prose, notin verse, that he was to find his true the same year as Blank Verse he publishedhis little prose romance. The Tale of RosamundGray and Old Blind Margaret; and four years later his John Woodvil—the fruit of that study ofthe dramatic poetry of the Elizabethan period, inthe revived study
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . et gainingrather than losing in permanence of charm throughthe circumstance. It was, however, in prose, notin verse, that he was to find his true the same year as Blank Verse he publishedhis little prose romance. The Tale of RosamundGray and Old Blind Margaret; and four years later his John Woodvil—the fruit of that study ofthe dramatic poetry of the Elizabethan period, inthe revived study of which he was to bear solarge a part. Lamb had little or no dramaticfaculty. The play was crude and valueless asa drama, but with detached passages reflectingmuch of the music and quaintness of Fletcherand Jonson. Meantime Lamb and his sister were wanderingfrom lodging to lodging, too often forced to leavethrough the rumour of Mary Lambs malady whichfollowed them wherever they went. They had livedat more than one house in Pentonville—they werein Southampton Buildings in 1800 and 1801—andthen removed to Lambs old familiar neighbour-hood, where they continued for sixteen years. The. CHARLES LAMB. From the Drawing (1798) by R. Hancock in the National PortraitGallery. early years of their residence in the Temple wereamong the hardest and saddest of their lives. Theywere very poor; Charless experiments in literaturehad as yet brought him neither money nor repu-tation ; and the gradual accession of new friendsthat might have brightened their path had thedrawback of bringing Charles face to face withsocial temptations which he could not resist. Avery moderate indulgence in wine or spirits seemsto have speedily affected him, and his shynessand his impediment of speech made him eagerlyresort to what for the moment made him forgetboth. We are very poor, writes Mary Lambin 1804 ; and again in 1805, It has been sad andheavy times with us lately. In Lambs anxietyto raise a few poun
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