Quote #15
Fanny Kelly's divine plain face.
More from Charles Lamb
- I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
- Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down?
- [Of Coleridge] His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
- I came home for ever!
- This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realize…
- Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
- Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
- When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'