The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

In The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) William James wrote of the 'amiable' personality shown in this book: "This is a complex a tender a submissive and graceful state of mind. In 1872 Lady Charlotte Locker died. As a poet Locker belongs to the choir who deal with the gay rather than the grave in verse with the poliFrederick Locker-Lampsond and witty rather than the lofty or emotional.

Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) was an English man of letters bibliophile and poet.