The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...is a little discordantly placed opposite to another act of Chairing, where the huzzas were Hosannahs, --but I was pleased to see so many of my old acquaintances brought together notwithstanding. Believe me, yours truly, C. Lamb. Note Haydon's "Chairing the Member " was exhibited in Bond Street this year, together with " Christ's Entry into Jerusalem," and other of his works. "The former picture" was his "Mock Election," which the King had bought for 500 guineas. For "Chairing the Member" Haydon received only half that price. See Appendix II., page 975, for three other letters. 1828 JOHN BUNYAN 779 LETTER 440 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON p.m. October n. 1828. A SPLENDID edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim--why, the thought is enough to turn one's moral stomach. His cockle hat and staff" transformed to a smart cockd beaver and a jemmy cane, his amice gray to the last Regent Street cut, and his painful Palmer's pace to the moder n swagger. Stop thy friend's sacriligious hand. Nothing can be done for B. but to reprint the old cuts in as homely but good a style as possible. The Vanity Fair, and the pilgrims there--the silly soothness in his setting out countenance--the Christian idiocy (in a good sense) of his admiration of the Shepherds on the Delectable Mountains--the Lions so truly AUe forical and remote from any similitude to Pidcock's. The great ead (the author's) capacious of dreams and similitudes dreaming in the dungeon. Perhaps you don't know my edition, what I had when a child: if you do, can you bear new designs from--Martin, enameld into copper or silver plate by--Heath, accompanied with verses from Mrs. Heman's pen O how unlike his own--Wouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy? Wouldst thou be pleas...