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Excerpt from A General Introduction to Charles Lamb: Together With a Special Study of His Relation to Robert Burton, the Author of the Anatomy of Melancholy
The actual education that Charles received at Christ's Hospital set him in the way of writing a good style, and the atmosphere of the place was in accordance With his tastes and feelings. Christ's was an ancient and venerable foundation, which owed its initial existence to that godly and royal child, King Edward the Sixth, the ?ower of the Tudor name the young ?ower that was untimely cropped as it began to fill the land with its early odours the boy-patron of boys, and though it was a charity school the boys were inspired by feelings of awe for its lengthy past. Lamb felt this in particular, and thus we see that from his first to his fourteenth year, he was continually in an atmosphere of medioevalism. He went from the School to the Temple and from the Temple to the School; on the one hand he was surrounded by relics of the ancient Tem plars, on the other he was in daily contact with sights and customs that had been retained in the school ever since the time of its founder. These haunts of ancient culture fostered his taste for all that was antique, and hence when be devoted himself to a study of the authors of the Eliza bethan period, and the one following it, he felt that the air they had breathed, he had breathed, and that their ancient memorials were to him as household gods.
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