The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-30

Ny heart doth fly with longing indnits,
To And thee on that dim aud distant shore
oyer the naasing waves,
Over the pamelees graves,
A little dove 10 white
Doth scsk the evmmore. ass&
s.BasnY CoRs~ AT e. Memoir 81 Charlie,
Lamb" Just published BY Roberts Brothers,
Of Boston, has been hsiied With much JOY b
the numerous admirers Of i'the gentle Ella
on both aides of the Atlantic. Everything
which treats Of one SO universally admired
possesses species Of facination, and, ~ Mr.
!, Proctor is almost the only man living who
knew Lamb personally, these recollections
justly lay claim to . happy authenticity, and
restore to us the genial clerk as be moved
aud had his beingin past age.
His story has thread Of ssdness running
through it which gives mild pathos to what
ever be wrote. For forty years he devoted
his manhood to the care and support Of An
insane sister, and this source Of sadnesss,
through his own veins, added zest to his live
liest sallies.
Lambs exquisite humor will never tire the
public, and We cannot forbear reproducing
the following bits, in Mr.. Procter's own Ian
gaage:
In his exaltation form being released from
his "a years Of labor at the India House, he
says Had little son would christen him
Nothing to do " This Is in the '.Superan>
nuated MANY
Speaking of Don Qaixote, he calls him
nthe errant Star of knighthood, made more
tender by eclipse"
On being asked by schoolmistress for
some sign indicative of her calling, be re.
commended ssThe Murder of the limo
cent.
once said something in his presence
which thought possessed smartness. he
commended me with.aa stammer: "Very
we'll, my dear boy. very WE'LL Ben taking a
pinch of snaif,) Ben johnson has said worse
things than that-and b>b>better." .ssis
His young chimney -sweepers, ''fron sheir
little rulpiis 1.-THE tops Of chimneys1 10 the
nippihg air OF "A December morning, preach
lesson Of patience TO mankind
To Colertdge. "Bless you, old sophia.
who, next to human nature. taught me all
the corruption. was capable of know
ing"
10 Mr. Gilman. surgeon, (s'query, Ki>
many he writes: Colerdge is very bad,
but he wonderfully picks mp. and his face.
when he repeats his verses, hath its ancient |
glory-an exchanged little damaged" =,
To Wordsworth who was superfiuously
solemn he writes: .'tSone DID people have |
come in, and I must finish abruptly. By id !
/ only mean denced.
The second SON ofGeorge the Second. it |
was said, had very cold and uneemal MAJ /
ner. Lamb stamnered out in his defence !
that s'this WAS very natural in the Duke OF
Cu.Cnmber land. !
To Mr.. H. ,ofa person eccentric sWhy
does not his guardian angel look to him?
He deserves one-may be he has tired him |
out
.sCharles,n said Coleridge to Lamb, 81
think You have heard me presch?'' II
n-n-never heard you do anything else re-
piled Lamb. s
One evening coleridge had consum ed the |
whole time in talking Of some '.regenerated'
orthodoxy Leigh Hunt, who was one Of the
listeners, on leaving the house, expressed his
surprise at the prodigality and intensity of
Coleridge's religious expressions. Lamb
tranquiized him by, ''N-ne-never mind
what Coleridge says, he's full OF fun
There we're. etc, etc.. and at the top OF
all Hunger (eldest, strongest, Of the Panon>1
sions,l predominant, breaking down the
stony fences of shame.
The Bank OF the India House, and other
rich traders look insnitingly on that old de-
serted South Sea House on "thelr poor
ueiehbors out Of business"
e0fa Scotchrnan ''His understanding 10
aiways at its meridian Betweea the afim>
alive and the negative there is no border
hand with him. You cannot hover with him
ON the confines af truth
=, On book of CoIeridge's nephew he writes: |
al confess he has more OF the Sterne
u IL uknlA INIT e ~0d~
Sens into excellent sense before the conclu- |
SION ae
As to monument being erected for Clark>
son, in his life>time. he opposes it, and ar
CUES Goodness blows no trumpet, nor
desires to have Il blown We should be mod !
est for modest man
A fine sonnet Of his The Gypsy Malisonl
being refused publication, he exclaimed
sHsng the age win write for Antiquity.
Mrs K, after expressing her love for her |
young children. added, teneeriy, "snd how
do YOU like babies, Mr.. lamb His an
swer, immediate, almost preeipitate, was,
''Boi- BOZ. boiled, madam =
Hood, tempting Lamb 10 dine with him,
said, 1--WE have hare. And many
fnends7n enquired Lamb.
II being suggested that he wonld not sit
down to a meal with the Italian witnesses at !
the Queen trial, Lamb rejected the imputa>
ton, asserting that be would not sit With any
thing except q hen or . tailor. 8s
Ofa man too prodigaf of lampoons and
verbal Jokes, Lamb said, threatengly, III
Lamb pun him"
On two Prussians Of the same name being
accused OF the same crime, il was remarked
as curious that they were not in any Wy re-
listed to each other "a mistake, sad he,
'.they are cozens German. W. sa
An old lady fond Of her dissenting minister,
wearied Lamb by the lenght OF her pFaises
II speak, because k,sor him we'll, said
she siWeli. don't,' replied Lamb; II
don't but d--n him at q Venture
The Scotch, whom he did not like, ought,
he said, to have double punishment, and to
have fire without birthstone.
Sou,hey. iu 1893, showed him dull poem
on a rose, Lambs criticism was: four
rose is insipid: IL has neither thorns nor
sweetness. sas
A person sending an unnecessarily large
sum with layers brief, Lamb said .lt Wa
a fee simple. .fk.
Mr.. H. G. Robinson, just called TO the bar,
tells him exultingly thai he ID retained IN !.
cause in the Kings Bench. "Ah,' said
Lamb, "ths 6rst srsaa casse, leass under
STOOD ~ rs *xe8
Ofa pup, Lamb says Il is 1 "noble thing
per &C. Il il entire Il 6lls the mind; it u
as perfect ~ . sonnet; better. Il iiMps
ashamed in the train and retinus Of huuaor. "
Last Hours ~ Miss Drsnsr.
That lChristmas) night she dreamed, -