The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... head in a childish fashion ) I often - yes - I often wish my old mother was alive ! CHARLES . That's a sentiment common to us all in moments of dis - distress , sir . • MR . LAMB ( his mind caught by the new topic ) . Ah yes — my poor ...
... head in a childish fashion ) I often - yes - I often wish my old mother was alive ! CHARLES . That's a sentiment common to us all in moments of dis - distress , sir . • MR . LAMB ( his mind caught by the new topic ) . Ah yes — my poor ...
Page 261
... head , and churned nearly all the sense out of the poor man . He was the leanest of mankind ; tiny black breeches buttoned to the knee - cap and no further , surmounting spindle - legs also in black ; face and head fineish , black ...
... head , and churned nearly all the sense out of the poor man . He was the leanest of mankind ; tiny black breeches buttoned to the knee - cap and no further , surmounting spindle - legs also in black ; face and head fineish , black ...
Page 311
... head was a Jewish look , which pervaded every portion of it , even to the sallow and uniform complexion , and the black and crisp hair standing off loosely from the head , as if every single hair were independent of the rest . The nose ...
... head was a Jewish look , which pervaded every portion of it , even to the sallow and uniform complexion , and the black and crisp hair standing off loosely from the head , as if every single hair were independent of the rest . The nose ...
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