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Charles Lamb: Citations en anglais

“It argues an insensibility.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)

“[Of Coleridge] His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.”

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Charles Lamb

Letter to Wordsworth (April 26, 1816)

“Far transcend my weak invention.
’Tis a simple Christian child,
Missionary young and mild,
From her store of script’ral knowledge
(Bible-taught without a college)
Which by reading she could gather,
Teaches him to say Our Father
To the common Parent, who
Colour not respects nor hue.
White and Black in him have part,
Who looks not to the skin, but heart.”

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Charles Lamb

“The Young Catechist” 1827.

“Nay, rather,
Plant divine, of rarest virtue;
Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.”

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Charles Lamb

A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.”

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Charles Lamb

Letter to Wordsworth (January 30, 1801)

“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

A Chapter on Ears; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)

“The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling—a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.”

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My First Play; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.”

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Letter to Coleridge 1790.

“A presentation copy…is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.”

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Popular Fallacies: XI, That We Must Not Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“Thou through such a mist dost show us,
That our best friends do not know us.”

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A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

“Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."”

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Autobiographical Recollections (Leslie) ; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“For thy sake, tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.”

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A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

“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 who shall beat the drums for its retreat?”

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Charles Lamb

Letter to George Dyer (December 20, 1830)

“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

Oxford in the Vacation.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“Riddle of destiny, who can show
What thy short visit meant, or know
What thy errand here below?”

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On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born (1827).

“I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

New Year's Eve.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“It is good to love the unknown.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

Valentine's Day; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)

“I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

Imperfect Sympathies.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!”

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Letter to Proctor (January 22, 1829), in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (2000), p. 526

“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

The Two Races of Men.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!
In whose capacious all-embracing leaves
The very marrow of tradition 's shown;
And all that history, much that fiction weaves.”

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Charles Lamb

To the Editor of the Every-Day Book; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)

“Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”

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Letter to Southey (August 9, 1815)

“Each day used to be individually felt by me in its reference to the foreign post days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. I had my Wednesday feelings, my Saturday nights’ sensations.”

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

Witches, and Other Night Fears.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

Valentine's Day.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“Severe and saintly righteousness
Composed the clear white bridal dress;
Jesus, the Son of Heaven's high King
Bought with his blood the marriage ring”

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A Vision Of Repentance, as quoted in Works of Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.

“A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)

“Sunday itself—that unfortunate failure of a holyday as it too often proved, what with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it …”

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Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”

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Charles Lamb livre Essays of Elia

The Two Races of Men.
Essays of Elia (1823)

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