One of his essays claims "I have an almost feminine partiality for old china" and another divides humans into "men who borrow" and "men who lend." Another of his essays imagines a baby angel afflicted with a lame gait and human weakness named Ge-Urania, while the Alice of "New Year's Eve" and "Dream Children" is his first love Ann Simmons. He quotes Marvell's "The Garden" in "Old Benchers of the Inner Temple" and describes Coleridge's 'wit-combats' in "Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago." He aided his sister Mary in the compilation of the prose volume Tales from Shakespeare, and another of his essays recollects giving a beggar a plum
One of his essays claims "I have an almost feminine partiality for old china" and another divides humans into "men who borrow" and "men who lend." Another of his essays imagines a baby angel afflicted with a lame gait and human weakness named Ge-Urania, while the Alice of "New Year's Eve" and "Dream Children" is his first love Ann Simmons. He quotes Marvell's "The Garden" in "Old Benchers of the Inner Temple" and describes Coleridge's 'wit-combats' in "Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago." He aided his sister Mary in the compilation of the prose volume Tales from Shakespeare, and another of his essays recollects giving a beggar a plum cake. In that essay, cottages burn down thanks to Ho-ti and Bobo's discovery of the pleasures of roast pig. For 10 points, name this author of the Essays of Elia.
One of his essays claims "I have an almost feminine partiality for old china" and another divides humans into "men who borrow" and "men who lend."
{Charles Lamb}