The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 11
Page 70
... beautiful deep - set eye , aquiline nose , and a very indescribable mouth . Whether it expressed most humour or feeling , good nature or a kind of whimsical peevishness , or twenty other things which passed over it by turns , I cannot ...
... beautiful deep - set eye , aquiline nose , and a very indescribable mouth . Whether it expressed most humour or feeling , good nature or a kind of whimsical peevishness , or twenty other things which passed over it by turns , I cannot ...
Page 277
... will have much force with anyone who remembers Charles Lamb's beautiful sonnet addressed to his own name , and ending : " No deed of mine shall shame thee , gentle name ! " W. Had been derived the name he bore - a name 277.
... will have much force with anyone who remembers Charles Lamb's beautiful sonnet addressed to his own name , and ending : " No deed of mine shall shame thee , gentle name ! " W. Had been derived the name he bore - a name 277.
Page 290
... beautiful Quakers of Pentonville , noise of coaches , drowsy cry of mechanic watchmen at night , with bucks reeling home drunk ; if you happen to wake at midnight , cries of Fire and Stop thief ; inns of court , with their learned air ...
... beautiful Quakers of Pentonville , noise of coaches , drowsy cry of mechanic watchmen at night , with bucks reeling home drunk ; if you happen to wake at midnight , cries of Fire and Stop thief ; inns of court , with their learned air ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
20 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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