The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1875 |
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... hear you exclaim , reader , Who is Elia ? Because in my last I tried to divert thee with some half - for- gotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have al- ready ...
... hear you exclaim , reader , Who is Elia ? Because in my last I tried to divert thee with some half - for- gotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have al- ready ...
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... hear mention of them without an accompanying feeling , as though a palpable obscure had dimmed the face of things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and ...
... hear mention of them without an accompanying feeling , as though a palpable obscure had dimmed the face of things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and ...
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... hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus , ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts , ) or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar - while the ...
... hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus , ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts , ) or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar - while the ...
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... solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the old year . I never hear it without a gathering up of my mind to a concentration of all the images that have been diffused over the past twelvemonth ; all 40 ESSAYS OF ELIA .
... solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the old year . I never hear it without a gathering up of my mind to a concentration of all the images that have been diffused over the past twelvemonth ; all 40 ESSAYS OF ELIA .
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... hear a person say , " You do not expect me to speak as if I were upon my oath . ” Hence a great deal of incorrectness and inadvertency , short of falsehood , creeps into ordinary conversation ; and a kind of secondary or laic truth is ...
... hear a person say , " You do not expect me to speak as if I were upon my oath . ” Hence a great deal of incorrectness and inadvertency , short of falsehood , creeps into ordinary conversation ; and a kind of secondary or laic truth is ...
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Page 100 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness. The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Page 84 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 233 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Page 35 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 287 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 483 - A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed. And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flushed her spirit.
Page 236 - High-way, since you my chief Parnassus be, And that my Muse (to some ears not unsweet) Tempers her words to trampling horses' feet More oft than to a chamber melody ; Now blessed you bear onward blessed me To her, where I my heart safe left shall meet ; My Muse, and I must you of duty greet With thanks and wishes, wishing thankfully.
Page 118 - ... nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would be foolish indeed.
Page 357 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 142 - There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is well called ; the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance, with the adhesive oleaginous.