More from Charles Lamb

  1. Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down?
  2. Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
  3. Fanny Kelly's divine plain face.
  4. When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'
  5. I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
  6. Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites. For my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel.
  7. [Of Coleridge] His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
  8. Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but…

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