Selections from the Essays of Elia (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. OXFOED IN THE VACATION. " Lamb was fond of spending his annual holiday in one or other of the great, university towns, more often perhaps in Cambridge. . . . On its first appearance in the London, the paper was dated ' August 5, 1820, from my rooms facing the Bodleian.' A sonnet, written a year before at Cambridge, tells of the charm that university associations had for one who had been debarred through infirmity of health and poverty from a university education."?Aingee. Page 15, Line 5. Vivares. A celebrated French engraver, 1709-1780. P. 13, 1. 6. Woollett. An English engraver, 1735-1785. P. 15,1. 7. Ella. Lamb's pseudonym. See Introduction. P. 15,1. 8. in my last. .Referring to his essay on The South-Sea House. P. 15, 1. 13. notched. Closely cut, a term applied by the Cavaliers to the Roundheads. P. 15,1. 16. agnize. To acknowledge. See Othello, I. iii. 232:? "I do agnize A natural and prompt alacrity." P. 16, 1. 5. In the first place . . . When Lamb first published his collected essays in book form, he omitted the passages here represented by points. P. 16, 1. 21. Joseph's vest. A reference to Joseph's " coat of many colors." See Gen. xxxvii. 3. P. 16, 1. 25. red-letter days. So called because formerly marked in the calendar of the Book of Common Prayer by red-letter charac- , ters. Only the red-letter days have special services provided for them in the Prayer-book. Page 16, Line 28. Andrew and John, etc. The original line is: ? " Andrew and Simon, famous after known." Paradise Regained, II. 7. P. 17,1. 2. At Christ's. Sc. Hospital. The " Blue-coat School" where Lamb was educated. See Introduction. P. 17, 1. 3. efllgies. Meaning? P. 17, 1. 3. Baskett Prayer Book. An edition of the Prayer- book with prints,...