I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision.

Lucas suggests that sometime in 1781 Charles left Mrs. In one famous story Boyer was said to have knocked one of Leigh Hunt's teeth out by throwing a copy of Homer at him from across the room. " The essays "Dream Children" "New Year's Eve" and several others speak of the many years that Lamb spent pursuing his love that ultimately failed.

V. Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare which he produced with his sister Mary Lamb (1764–1847).