The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems, EtcW. T. Amies, 1879 - 656 pages |
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... sort of dedication in my head for my few things , which I want to know if you approve of , and can insert . I mean to inscribe them to my sister . It will be unexpected , and it will give her pleasure : or do you think it will look ...
... sort of dedication in my head for my few things , which I want to know if you approve of , and can insert . I mean to inscribe them to my sister . It will be unexpected , and it will give her pleasure : or do you think it will look ...
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... sort straitened ; you are manifestly wedded to this poem , and what fancy has joined let no man separate . I turn me to the Joan of Arc , second book . -he hath a most prolific brain , and is indeed a most sweet poet . But how can you ...
... sort straitened ; you are manifestly wedded to this poem , and what fancy has joined let no man separate . I turn me to the Joan of Arc , second book . -he hath a most prolific brain , and is indeed a most sweet poet . But how can you ...
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... sort of a time , Col. , when a remissness of this sort in complacency which my little hoard at home a dear friend would have lain very heavy on would feel at receiving the new - comer into my mind , but latterly I have been too familiar ...
... sort of a time , Col. , when a remissness of this sort in complacency which my little hoard at home a dear friend would have lain very heavy on would feel at receiving the new - comer into my mind , but latterly I have been too familiar ...
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... sort of inter- course , where the presents are all on one side . I have read the last Eclogue again with great pleasure . It hath gained considerably by abridgment , and now I think it wants nothing but enlargement . You will call this ...
... sort of inter- course , where the presents are all on one side . I have read the last Eclogue again with great pleasure . It hath gained considerably by abridgment , and now I think it wants nothing but enlargement . You will call this ...
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... sort of agrarian law , or common property , in matter of society ; but for once he has done me a great pleasure , while he was only pursuing a principle , as ignes fatui may light you home . This Rickman lives in our Buildings ...
... sort of agrarian law , or common property , in matter of society ; but for once he has done me a great pleasure , while he was only pursuing a principle , as ignes fatui may light you home . This Rickman lives in our Buildings ...
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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems ... Charles Lamb No preview available - 2015 |
COMP WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB Charles 1775-1834 Lamb,Thomas Noon Sir Talfourd, 1795-1854 No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 342 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, 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 404 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron.
Page 392 - I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was, — and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter...
Page 392 - I did not cry or take it to heart as some do, and as I think he would have done if I had died, yet I missed him all day long, and knew not till then how much I had loved him. I missed his kindness, and I missed his crossness, and wished him to be alive again, to be quarrelling with him, (for we quarrelled sometimes,) rather than not have him again...
Page 481 - ... keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted it about in that overworn suit — your old corbeau — for four or five weeks longer than you should have done, to pacify your conscience for the mighty sum of fifteen — or sixteen shillings was it ? — a great affair we thought it then — which you had lavished on the old folio. Now you can afford to buy any book that pleases you, but I do not see that you ever bring me home any...
Page 341 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard...
Page 543 - To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may "upon horror's head horrors accumulate,
Page 405 - Behold him, while he is doing - it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than a scorching heat, that he is so passive to. How equably he twirleth round the string! - Now he is just done. To see the extreme sensibility of that tender age, he hath wept out his pretty eyes - radiant jellies - shooting stars.
Page 428 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, "That is Mr. ." A rap, between familiarity and respect; that demands, and, at the same time, seems to despair of, entertainment. He entereth smiling and — embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and — draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner-time — when the table is full.
Page 406 - I forget the decision. His sauce should be considered : decidedly, a few bread crumbs, done up with his liver and brains, and a dash of mild sage. But banish, dear Mrs. Cook, I beseech you, the whole onion tribe. Barbecue your whole hogs to your palate, steep them in shalots, stuff them out with plantations of the rank and guilty garlic ; you cannot poison them, or make them stronger than they are ; but consider, he is a weakling, — a flower.