Quote#Politics & Power
A Pun is a Noble Thing per se: O never lug it in as an accessory. A…
Quote byCharles Lamb · 1775–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Coleridge (2 July 1825), collected as Letter 358 in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters, editor E. V. Lucas..
English (original)
A Pun is a Noble Thing per se: O never lug it in as an accessory. A Pun is a sole object for reflection (vide my aids to that recessment from a savage state)—it is entire, it fills the mind: it is perfect as a Sonnet, better.
— Charles Lamb
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For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
I have something more to do than to feel.
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.
Severe and saintly righteousness Composed the clear white bridal dress; Jesus, the Son of Heaven's high King Bought with his blood the marriage ring
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.