 CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw. It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about me the...  Essays of Elia - Page 189by Charles Lamb - 1888 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...: the ensemble produced a tumultuous and afflicting spectacle. DREAM-CHILDREN JA BEVERIE. /CHILDREN love to listen to stories ^-^ about their elders,...great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk '(a hundred times higger than that in which they and Papa lived) which had been the scene — so at... | |
 | 1822 - 734 pages
...dames of the romantic vale of Corrie. DREAM-CHILDREN; A REVEfelE. CHILDREN love to listen to stone's about their elders, when they were children ; to stretch...this spirit that my little ones crept about me the VOL. V. 22 CJan. country — of the tragic incidents which dancer, I was saying, in the county, they... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...became to me, upon a new stock, the most delightful of recreations. DREAM-CHILDREN ; A REVERIE. CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when...greatgrandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred times higger than that in which they and papa lived) which had been the scene — so at... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...became to me, upon a new stock, the most delightful of recreations. DREAM-CHILDREN 5 A REVERIE. CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when...greatgrandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived) which had been the scene — so at... | |
 | English fiction - 1835 - 356 pages
...the Loreley, his young life died away in the longings of love. DREAM-CHILDREN; A REVERIE. CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when...great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in 11 * Norfolk (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived), which had been the scene... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...became to me, upon a new stock, the most delightful of recreations. DREAM-CHILDREN; A REVERIE. CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when...great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived) which had been the scene — so at... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...became to me, upon a new stock, the most delightful of recreation. DREAM CHILDREN. A REVERY. CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children ; to stretch their imaginations to the conception of a traditionary great uncle or grandam whom they never saw. It was... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...gave us — horreseo referent — trousers instead of mutton. 62 DREAM-CHILDREN; A REVERIE. CHILDEEH love to listen to stories about their elders, when...little ones crept about me the other evening to hear a bouttheir great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred times bigger... | |
 | Story-teller - English fiction - 1843 - 324 pages
...DREAM-CHILDREN: A JŒVEUIE. ч BV CHARLES LAMO. CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, and when they were children ; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great uncle or grandame, whom they never saw. It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about... | |
 | Ethan Allen Andrews - American prose literature - 1844 - 356 pages
...the Loreley, his young life died away in the longings of love. DREAM-CHILDREN; A REVERIE. CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when...great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in 11 * Norfolk (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived), which had been the scene—so,... | |
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