LAMB AS AN ESSAYIST  Charles Lamb is entitled to a place as an essayist just after Montaigne, Steel and Addison. He unites many of the characteristics of each of these writers – refined and exquisite humor, a genuine and heart-touching pathos and his own self in it. His thoughts and meanings are often covered in simple language. Each of his sentences is full of a number of meanings. The color of his essays is taken from his personal life. It is inseparable from the circumstances in which it came into being. His essays are inspired by a influence of the lively remembrance of the past. In the essays, these events are narrated in form of a story with a running comment on them. He adds the element of sorrow to them, which gives him a special place in literary history. In his own world, the connection with Hertford and Grandmother Mrs. Field is seen. She was the house-keeper at Blakesware, country-house. In “Dream Children”, this house is described with its empty rooms, gardens