Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook49 pages7 minutes
A Masque of Days - From the Last Essays of Elia
By Charles Lamb
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
THE OLD YEAR being dead, and the NEW YEAR coming of age, wh: he does by Calendar Law, as soon as the breath is out of the old gentleman's body, nothing would serve the young spark but he must give a dinner upon the occasion, to wh: all the Days in the year were invited. The Festivals, whom he deputed as his stewards, were mightily taken with the notion. They
Read more from Charles Lamb
Shakespeare for Children (Illustrated) The Essays of Elia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tales from Shakespeare - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales From Shakespeare: Illustrated Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales from Shakespeare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales From Shakespeare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Adventures of Ulysses (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ten Tales from Shakespeare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dissertation upon Roast Pig Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Essays of Elia (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Best Letters of Charles Lamb Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales from Shakespeare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Complete) Vol 1-5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Adventures of Ulysses - illustrated Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Masque of Days - From the Last Essays of Elia
Related ebooks
A Masque of Days: From the Last Essays of Elia: Newly Dressed & Decorated Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChristmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCHRISTMAS DAY - an illustrated extract from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMistress Anne Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHalf a Life-Time Ago Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFairlop and Its Founder; or, Facts and Fun for the Forest Frolickers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Wedding on the Beach Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wessex Tales: "The Dorset Ooser Dines" (Story 26) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOld Christmas and Bracebridge Hall from the Sketch-book of Washington Irving Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Magic words: A tale for Christmas time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Best of Bruce Chatwin: On the Black Hill and The Songlines Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Alice Guerin Crist: "The evening air was full of sweets, Of Springtime odours vague and faint" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Bloodsmoor Romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Capsina: An Historical Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShirley Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mrs. Dalloway Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Original Poems of Edward Edwin Foot, of Her Majesty's Customs, London Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeak's Island: A Romance of Buccaneer Days Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House by the Church-Yard Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lion's Masquerade: A Sequel to The Peacock at Home Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Works of Alice Brown Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProse Idylls, New and Old Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOld Christmas from the Sketchbook of Washington Irving Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChristmastide – Its History, Festivities, and Carols Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChristmas: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMrs. Dalloway Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bride of the Mistletoe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
General Fiction For You
Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Candy House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Recital of the Dark Verses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Second Life of Mirielle West: A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Other Black Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything's Fine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Schiehallion: Highland Folklore and Second Sight 0% found this document usefulCMP Special 02b Midsummer 2008 Part 2: Midsummer 2008 with a story from William Russeth 0% found this document usefulThese are the Days when we look back- On this fair Poet and how she Grew 0% found this document usefulEp. 204 : Winter Solstice 0% found this document usefulThe 12 Days of Medieval Christmas 0% found this document usefulIs There a Santa Clause? 0% found this document usefulCMP Special 21 Autumn Holiday Special 2010: Customs of the Fey in Northern Scotland 100% found this document usefulCMP Special 03 Lughnasadh 2008: Music, Info and Arthurian Romance from Kelley Heckhart 0% found this document usefulEp. 145 - Winter Solstice 0% found this document usefulEp. 232 : Winter Solstice 0% found this document usefulCelebrating Christmas with Christina Rossetti 0% found this document useful
Related articles
A Curate At Christmas Who Do You Think You Are?Article
A Curate At Christmas
Nov 15, 2022
2 min readNot So Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Country LifeArticle
Not So Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Dec 6, 2023
4 min readJanuary Blues Country LifeArticle
January Blues
Jan 5, 2022
MELCHIOR, Caspar and Balthasar finally arriving in Bethlehem. A cold coming they had of it, just the worst time of year, camels galled, sore-footed, refractory. Elizabeth I, at the first performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night entertainment, laugh
2 min readWill You Come And Join The Dance? Country LifeArticle
Will You Come And Join The Dance?
Nov 17, 2021
3 min readHappy History Holidays All About HistoryArticle
Happy History Holidays
Dec 5, 2019
8 min readOn The First Day Of Christmas, My True Love Read To Me Country LifeArticle
On The First Day Of Christmas, My True Love Read To Me
Dec 16, 2020
4 min readLong Live The Christmas Cliché The FieldArticle
Long Live The Christmas Cliché
Nov 9, 2023
3 min readThe Myth Of The Victorian Christmas The Critic MagazineArticle
The Myth Of The Victorian Christmas
Nov 25, 2021
4 min readTHE BLACK SPIDER Part Two PEARLArticle
THE BLACK SPIDER Part Two
Oct 30, 2019
25 min readWhile Shepherds Watched Who Do You Think You Are?Article
While Shepherds Watched
Dec 5, 2023
2 min readCelebrating Christmas The OldieArticle
Celebrating Christmas
Oct 19, 2022
3 min readPop Music The OldieArticle
Pop Music
Oct 19, 2022
Why wouldn’t you try and write a Christmas hit? Imagine being Noddy Holder. Once a year, at the first mention of mulled wine, Merry Christmas Everybody crackles from every available radio and streaming device and the heavens open and pour cold, hard
3 min readGrey’s Elegy In A Welsh Churchyard The OldieArticle
Grey’s Elegy In A Welsh Churchyard
Nov 17, 2021
4 min read16 Decades of Atlantic Christmases The AtlanticArticle
16 Decades of Atlantic Christmases
Dec 25, 2018
6 min readA Parsonage in New Hope Wisconsin Magazine of HistoryArticle
A Parsonage in New Hope
Dec 4, 2023
12 min readLords Of Misrule Fortean TimesArticle
Lords Of Misrule
Dec 3, 2020
Christmas, in past times, included adult entertainment and also the celebration of dark themes such as death and retribution. The death of the old year, and the turning point of the Winter Solstice, was a time to affirm the contrast of light and dark
8 min readTed Hughes, 25 Years On: Now, More Than Ever, The Poet Is The Voice For Our Times The IndependentArticle
Ted Hughes, 25 Years On: Now, More Than Ever, The Poet Is The Voice For Our Times
Oct 28, 2023
9 min readA Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster Literary HubArticle
A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster
Nov 22, 2019
7 min readAutumn Has Always Been Poets’ Season Literary HubArticle
Autumn Has Always Been Poets’ Season
Oct 23, 2017
6 min readAt Ellis Island, Imagining My Father’s Journey to America Literary HubArticle
At Ellis Island, Imagining My Father’s Journey to America
Sep 8, 2017
6 min readHaphazard By Starlight Country LifeArticle
Haphazard By Starlight
Dec 16, 2020
ADVENT is a time of waiting and we have become a congregation of experts. I nominate the people of Planet Earth for the Nobel Prize for Waiting. Even in a country smaller than Montana, we have modified our motto ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ to ‘Keep Wait
4 min readYe Gods! Chat It's FateArticle
Ye Gods!
Oct 27, 2020
4 min readWashington Danced Here American HistoryArticle
Washington Danced Here
Jan 22, 2019
3 min read“Some Loving Words” British Columbia HistoryArticle
“Some Loving Words”
Mar 15, 2022
5 min readThe Queen “Devoted To Your Service” Australian Women’s Weekly NZArticle
The Queen “Devoted To Your Service”
May 18, 2022
Princess Elizabeth was young, unworldly and head over heels in love when she made a speech that would become the framework of her life. It was a jubilant time for the heir apparent, who was aching to become engaged to Philip Mountbatten, the handsome
3 min readSeamus Heaney's Extraordinary Generosity The AtlanticArticle
Seamus Heaney's Extraordinary Generosity
Sep 11, 2013
5 min readHear The Angels Sing Country LifeArticle
Hear The Angels Sing
Dec 13, 2023
4 min readSilent As The Grave Adirondack LifeArticle
Silent As The Grave
Feb 23, 2023
6 min readHow White Supremacists Used Mardi Gras to Enforce Racial Division Literary HubArticle
How White Supremacists Used Mardi Gras to Enforce Racial Division
Aug 4, 2020
The stage is arranged, the Ku-Klux pageant begins. On March 4, 1867, a Monday at 10 am, 2,000 firemen jostle left and right into parade columns on Canal Street, near the levee of the river. Their costume is full dress uniform. Marshals from the Firem
5 min readStop Hating on Adjectives! The MillionsArticle
Stop Hating on Adjectives!
Jun 12, 2019
A common admonition in creative writing pedagogy is, “Cut as many adjectives as possible.” I propose that this rule springs from mere prejudice. The post Stop Hating on Adjectives! appeared first on The Millions.
7 min read
Reviews for A Masque of Days - From the Last Essays of Elia
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Masque of Days - From the Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1