The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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Page 63
... admiring disciple ; her eyes seldom absent from his face . Even when apparently engrossed in conversation with others ... admiration while she spoke , to find her words have so much charm for such a man as Charles Lamb . He appeared to ...
... admiring disciple ; her eyes seldom absent from his face . Even when apparently engrossed in conversation with others ... admiration while she spoke , to find her words have so much charm for such a man as Charles Lamb . He appeared to ...
Page 148
... admiration of Shakespear and Milton does not make him despise Pope ; and he can read Parnell with patience and Gay with delight . His taste in French and German literature is somewhat defective ; nor has he made much progress in the ...
... admiration of Shakespear and Milton does not make him despise Pope ; and he can read Parnell with patience and Gay with delight . His taste in French and German literature is somewhat defective ; nor has he made much progress in the ...
Page 163
... admirable , and often contained as deep things as the wisdom of some who have greater names ; such a man , for instance , as Nicole , the Frenchman , who was a baby to him . Lamb would have cracked a score of jokes at Nicole , worth his ...
... admirable , and often contained as deep things as the wisdom of some who have greater names ; such a man , for instance , as Nicole , the Frenchman , who was a baby to him . Lamb would have cracked a score of jokes at Nicole , worth his ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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admiration AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Ayrton Barry Cornwall beauty BECKY BERNARD BARTON called Carlyle character Charles and Mary Charles Lamb charm Christ's Hospital Coleridge Covent Garden cribbage criticism dear delight diddle dinner dream E. V. LUCAS Elia's English essayist Essays of Elia expression eyes face fancy father feel garden genius gentle gentleman George Dyer hand Hazlitt head heart Heaven humour India House Inner Temple Jews John kind Lamb's laugh Leigh Hunt letters literary literature live London Magazine look Mary Lamb memory mind Miss Lamb nature never night once person play poem poet poetry poor prose quaint remember schoolmaster seemed Shakespeare sister smile sonnet soul speak spirit stammering Street sweet talk taste Temple thee things Thomas thou thought verses walk whimsical whist Widford William William Hazlitt words Wordsworth writings wrote