I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Source: Letter, 30 Jan. 1801, to William Wordsworth; published in Complete Works, vol. 3, 1882.
-- Charles Lamb, (Feb 10 1775-1834), English essayist, author; The Mitre Courtier was master of the essay, e.g., Essays of Elia, 1823.