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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1820] THOMAS ALLSOP 31 December 27th: ?Took tea at Lamb's. One of his monthly parties; less agreeable than usual. His vulgar brother there, whose manners are intolerable, and Phillips. And late Ayrton, also Talfourd, stepped in. In this year we might perhaps take note of a new friend in the person of Thomas Allsop, aged twenty-five, the favourite disciple of Coleridge, as he was called, whose wife had a special claim on Lamb's interest in that she was a daughter of Mrs. Jordan. Allsop, who was in business as a silk merchant, was a man of very generous nature, and he seems early to have discovered that one road to Lamb's heart (as Lamb himself publicly stated later) was by presents of game. Writing to Miss Wordsworth in January, 1821, Lamb says that Allsop sends hares and pheasants twice a week: I have almost forgotten butcher's meat as Plebeian. Allsop's benefactions to Coleridge were of a more substantial character. A few years later, in 1825, the Lambs and the Allsops shared lodgings at Enfield, and although there is no indication that they ever became intimate on the highest plane, they were very friendly. Were it not for such relations as subsisted between them, we should be without many stories of Lamb that are to be found in the Letters, Conversations and Recollections of Coleridge, which Allsop compiled. I quote a few passages: ? I am quite aware that I can convey no notion of what Charles Lamb was, hardly even of what he said, as far the greatest part of its value depended upon the manner in which it was said. Even the best of his jokes?and how good they were you can never know?depended upon the circumstances, which to narrate would be to overlay and weary the attention. The following lines of Lloyd will convey some idea, though very imperfect, of ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458982087
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 214
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458982084
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 390 gr


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