The Life Letters And Writings Of Charles Lamb
Contributors: Percy Fitzgerald (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781417910106
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: A VERY ingenious and subtle writer, whom there is good reason for suspecting to be an Ex-Jesuit, not unknown at Douay some five-and twenty years since, (he will not obtrude himself at M-th again in a hurry,) about a twelvemonth back set himself to prove the character of the Powder Plot conspirators to have been that of heroic self-devotedness and true Christian martyrdom.