Excerpt from The Works of Charles Lamb, Vol. 1 of 2 Am I right in assuming this as the cause? Or is it that, as years come upon us, (except with some more healthy-happy spirits, ) Life itself loses much of its Poetry for us? We transcribe but what we read in the great volume of Nature and, as the characters grow dim, we turn off, and look another way. You yourself write no Christabels, nor Ancient Mariners, now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.