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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, reminiscences, letters and essays, than any otherman since the days of Johnson. Dear Charles Lamb ! Who is notfamiliar with thy outward form?—those gaiter-clad legs, which Hood * Charles Lamb was a living anachronism—a seventeenth century man, mislaidand brought to life, two hundred years too late. Never did author less belong to whatwas, nominally, his own time ; he could neither sympathize with it, nor comprehendit; his quaintness of style and antiqimrianism of taste were no affectation. He belongedto the school of his contemporaries ; but they were contemporaries that never met himin the streets, but were mostly to be fotmd in Poets Corner, or under gravestones ofthe long ago. He was happy in this, however, that though shut out from his day andgeneration, his day and generation understood and appreciated him, for, with theexception of Goldsmith, no man of letters has ever been more sincerely loved, ortenderly regretted.—Notes and Queries, September 22nd, 1866. f Leigh Hunt,
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CHARLES LAMB. 291 called immaterial; that noble head, which Leigh Hunt said was worthy of Aristotle,—with as fine a heart as ever beat in human bosom.,and limbs very fragile to sustain it ; that slim, middle-aged man, inquaint uncontemporary habiliments, as Mr. Westwood, a neighbour,described him; those mobile and sensitive features, whence beamedforth, as he himself said of the glorious singer, Braham,—a compoundof the Jew, the Gentleman and the Angel. What is there yet unknownabout Charles Lamb ? Talfourd has given us his Life a?td Letters^ andthen,—when the British Quarterly had opened the cupboard-door,—inhis Filial Memorials, disclosed the skeleton within, in all its ghastlyhideousness, and gave the world that lifes lesson of affection, devotionand self-sacrifice. De Quincey then came with his reminiscences ; Barry Cornwall with his loving record ; Percy Fitzgerald, who tellsof his homes, his haunts and his books ; the Halls, with their everpleasant and genial Memories; B

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