The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Lamb With Anecdotes by His Contemporaries (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Lamb: With Anecdotes by His Contemporaries There are few writers in English literature whose works lend themselves more readily to quotation than do those of Charles Lamb. One has through these occasional glimpses vistas of Lamb's mind, heart, and personality. Indeed in his case the three cannot be separated, for his mind was his heart and his person ality was the combination of the two. He was but one person to his friends and to his readers. 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.