How To Use Charles Lamb In A Sentence
- Charles Lamb, a notorious punster, explained that the pun is “a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.” Punditry
- In lines later excised at Charles Lamb's urging, the poem's speaker goes on to chastise Susan as a "Poor Outcast" (perhaps a prostitute, then no uncommon condition) who should return to her father's rustic home and, having replaced her fancy loomed dress for a "plain russet" home-spun gown, once again hear a "thrush sing from a tree of its own" (17-20). 'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
- An ironic exception to these nineteenth-century writers who were emphasizing the mysterious, irrational, and overwhelming forces that gave rise to genius was the essayist Charles Lamb; confined at one time to a private asylum for what now would almost certainly be called manic-depressive illness, he was also the close companion to a sister intermittently insane with manic-depressive psychosis. Touched with Fire
- Probably he thought they heightened effect, much as Charles Lamb spelt plum pudding with a b ” “plumb pudding,” because, he said, “it reads fatter and more suetty.” Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland
- I agree with Charles Lamb: you shouldn't even go and see somebody try and act the part, because it's unactable. An Interview with Harold Bloom
- Charles Lamb Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
- And so kindly and gladly did the public -- or at least that portion of the public that read the "Atlantic Monthly" -- receive the specimens of Charles Lamb's uncollected writings, published somewhile since in these pages, that I am induced to print another paper on the same pleasant and entertaining subject. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
