Charles Lamb
Essayist and critic, 1775-1834
Cited as Lamb. — 24 quotations
Antipode
In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king.
Archive
Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press.
Arride
Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning.
Being
A man who is being strangled.
Caput
Your caputs and heads of colleges.
Clap
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony.
Collector
I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector.
Commentate
Commentate upon it, and return it enriched.
Compromise
I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
Crackling
For the first time in his life he tested crackling.
Deranged
The story of a poor deranged parish lad.
Expiry
He had to leave at the expiry of the term.
In
Their vacation . . . falls in so pat with ours.
Inhibitory
I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory.
Jeremiad
He has prolonged his complaint into an endless jeremiad.
Jostle
None jostle with him for the wall.
Lachrymose
You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy.
Order
In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them.
Reverse
By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.
Revoke
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke.
Societarian
The all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation.
Susceptible
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises.
Wanton
How merrily we would sally into the fields, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams!
Ycleped
Those charming little missives ycleped valentines.