charles-lamb Quotes About book

“Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.”

Kind Book Eye Interest Novel Modern Extremes Incidents Modern Novel

Book:Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H

Source: Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H

“A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.”

Ifs Doe Book Brother Return Demand Sells Stranger Foolish Copies Presentation Autographs

Author:Charles Lamb

“I cannot sit and think; books think for me.”

Thinking Book Reading

Book:The Essays of Elia and Eliana

Source: The Essays of Elia and Eliana

“Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?”

Thinking Book Reading Five Minutes Ready Depends Six Dinner Queens Volume Sermons Impatient Bishops Faerie Andrew

Author:Charles Lamb

“Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.”

Thinking I Can Book I Can Read

Author:Charles Lamb

“I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?”

Source: Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H

“Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.”

Giving Should Book Lasts Prayer Dying Giving Up

Book:The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia

Source: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia

“She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.”

Mind Book

Author:Charles Lamb

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

Knows Long Has Beens Book Reading Known Dog Ears Tea Reading Books Dirt Book Reading Bookstores Muffins Topography

Book:The Essays of Elia

Source: The Essays of Elia

“I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”