 | 1821 - 724 pages
...naving) in return. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first seven years oí my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, 1 had almost said ; for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me, but a stream that... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...reverence her sex. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, Ihad almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...region are noticed. " I was born," says this pleasant writer, " and passed the first seven years of my life in the Temple. Its church, its' halls, its...river, I had almost said, for, in those young years, wliat was this king of rivers to me, but a stream that watered our pleasant places? these are of my... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1850 - 406 pages
...reverence her sex. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its...of my oldest recollections. I repeat, to this day, 110 verses to myself more frequently, or with kindlier emotion, than those of Spenser, where he speaks... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...reverence her sex. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its...to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places 1 — these are of my oldest recollections. I repeat, to this day, no verses to myself more frequently,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1856 - 386 pages
...reverence her sex. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, 1 had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that... | |
 | James Walter Wall - Europe - 1856 - 336 pages
...years of my life near, and in the Temple Gardens. Its church, its halls, its gardens, and fountains are of my oldest recollections. I repeat to this day no verses to myself with greater emotion than those of Spencer, where he speaks of this spot." Passing the Temple with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...reverence her sex. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, 1 had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that... | |
 | International Exhibition - 1862 - 460 pages
...delightful essay on The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple, " I was born, and passed the first seven years of my life in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its...to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places 1 — these are my oldest recollections. I repeat, to this day, no verses to myself more frequently,... | |
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I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant... 
