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Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). He also wrote a number of poems, and was part of a literary circle in England, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, whom he befriended. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as the most lovable figure in English literature.;The Last Essays of EliaOld CHINA; Here is a young and courtly Mandarin, handing tea to a lady from a salver - two miles off. See how distance seems to set off respect! And here the same lady, or another - for likeness is identity on teacups - is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the hither side of this calm garden river, with a dainty mincing foot, which in a right angle of incidence (as angles go in our world) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead - a furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream! Farther on - if far or near can he predicated of their world - see horses, trees, pagodas, dancing the hays. ; 这位年轻的中国官员十分彬彬有礼，正用托盘向一位夫人献茶——他们之间的距离是两英里。距离就是这样衍生崇敬的！就是这一位女士——或者另外一位——因为在茶杯上的相似就是相同——正要走进一条小巧的小船中，而小船正停在这条平静的花园小河的这一边。她轻轻地挪动着小巧的步子，如果估计正确（像我们生活中一样的话），绝对会踏上这片鲜花满布的草地，草地就在200米以外的一条同样奇特的河对岸。 　　远处——如果他们也有远近的话——可以看见马、树、塔等正跳着圆圈舞。 ;I was pointing out to my cousin last evening, over our Hyson (which we are old fashioned enough to drink unmixed still of an afternoon) some of these speciosa miracula upon a set of extra-ordinary old blue china (a recent purchase) which we were now for the first time using; and could not help remarking, how favourable circumstances had been to us of late years, that we could afford to please the eye sometimes with trifles of this sort - when a passing sentiment seemed to over-shade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. 昨天傍晚，一杯熙春在手（这里附带一句，我们的喝