description: Excerpt from PoemsBy an odd coincidence, Charles Lamb's father is said to have greatly resembled David Garrick in appearance, while his mother is stated to have had so matronly and commanding an aspect that she might readily have been mistaken for a sister of Mrs. Siddons. A chirruping blithe little fellow in his younger days, must have been Mr. Salt's figaro-factotum a clerkly domestic - a sort of valet man of letters - a Dodsley in all but wearing the livery His solitary claim to the dignity of authorship, it must be added, however, was one thin quarto, entitled Poetical Pieces on Several Occasions. It com prised among its contents an old-world picture of the life of a lady's footman in the last century, a History of the Patriarch Joseph, in heroic couplets, and - its writer's favourite effusion, his-principal solace later on, when he was sinking into dotage - a childish, prattling little fable, after the manner of John Gay, called The Sparrow's Wedding.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
language: English
title: Poems
titlecomplete: Poems
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publisher: Little Brown & Co (Pap)