Selections Mainly Autobiographical From Nineteenth Century Prose
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Excerpt from Selections Mainly Autobiographical From Nineteenth Century Prose: With Notes There are few English authors with whose character and circumstances we may become so closely acquainted as with Charles Lamb´s, on account of his habit of self-confession in his essays, his skill and charm as a letter-writer, and his many literary friendships. The first seven years of his life were spent at the Inner Temple, where his father had rooms as clerk and confidential servant to one of the barristers; for the next seven he was a "blue coat boy" at Christ´s Hospital, of which he has left us the two accounts given in the following pages. Lamb was passionately fond of London, where he passed nearly all his days, but in Mackery End in Hertfordshire and other essays he has given us delightful glimpses of holiday visits to the country home of his grandmother Field. It was on one of these visits that he fell in love with the "fair Alice" of Dream Children, but this youthful romance was cruelly cut short. There was a strain of mental weakness in the family, and Lamb´s mind gave way. Early in 1796 he writes to his schoolfellow and life-long friend Coleridge: "My life has been somewhat diversified of late. The six weeks that finished last year and began this, your very humble servant spent very agreeably in a madhouse at Hoxton. I am got somewhat rational now, and don´t bite any one. But mad I was!" Hard upon this followed the tragedy which altered the whole course of his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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