Charles Lamb

Noun

Meaning

English essayist (1775-1834)

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The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water. Charles Lamb

Background Joyce first encountered the figure of Odysseus/Ulysses in Charles Lamb 's Adventures of Ulysses —an adaptation of the Odyssey for children, which seemed to establish the Roman name in Joyce's mind. Source: Internet

Coleridge and Charles Lamb both died in 1834, their loss being a difficult blow to Wordsworth. Source: Internet

The dictionary’s earliest written use of the noun is from an essay by Charles Lamb in the September 1822 issue of the London Magazine: “The cottage (a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building).” Source: Internet

He has found her name in a used book and writes to ask her help in obtaining more books by the author Charles Lamb. Source: Internet

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