Quote#Books & Reading
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!
Quote byCharles Lamb · 1775–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: To the Editor of the Every-Day Book; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
— Charles Lamb
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I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.