Literature of the world : an introductory study . ements; A Chapter on Ears, A QuakersMeeting, and The Oldand the New Schoolmas-ter for a good glimpse ofLambspersonal attractionsand his antipathies; Mrs,BattlesOpinionson Whistand A Dissertation uponRoast Pig for his whim-sical and delicate humor;and New Years Eve,Old China, and DreamChildren for their veinof subtle reminiscence andtender retrospect. Lambs style is full ofgrace and beauty, with atouch of antiquity in dic-tion and vocabulary. Hisjudgments are always hisown. His loves included old books,^ old customs, old dwellings, old familiar
Literature of the world : an introductory study . ements; A Chapter on Ears, A QuakersMeeting, and The Oldand the New Schoolmas-ter for a good glimpse ofLambspersonal attractionsand his antipathies; Mrs,BattlesOpinionson Whistand A Dissertation uponRoast Pig for his whim-sical and delicate humor;and New Years Eve,Old China, and DreamChildren for their veinof subtle reminiscence andtender retrospect. Lambs style is full ofgrace and beauty, with atouch of antiquity in dic-tion and vocabulary. Hisjudgments are always hisown. His loves included old books,^ old customs, old dwellings, old familiar faces, thesights of city streets, the memories of bygone days. Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays,and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes,and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fireside con-versations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irofiy itself—do thesethings go out with life? Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasantwith him?. CHARLES LAMB iHow natural it was to C. L. said Leigh Hunt, to give a kiss to anold folio, as I once saw him do to Chapmans Homer. 420 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD And you, my midnight darlings, my Folios! must I part with theintense delight of having you (huge armfuls) in my embraces? Mustknowledge come to me, if it come at all, by some awkward experimentof intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading? Shall I enjoy friendships there, wanting the smiling indicationswhich point me to them here,—the recognizable face—the sweetassurance of a look? Lambs friends included among many others Barry Cornwall andTalfourd, who have left us so delightful a picture of him; and Hay-don the painter; and Coleridge and Hazlitt. Coleridge had a deepaffection for Charles and IMary Lamb. Dear to my heart, yea, asit were, my heart, he had said of them; and his visits to theirhome were not soon forgotten. For Coleridge was a great man. Nosuch
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