The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
Contributors: Percy Fitzgerald (Editor)
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780836956542
Subjects: 1775-1834; Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Charles,; Literary Criticism
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.