The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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Page 52
... heart was on its knees the next minute , and for the two or three inter- vening days I trod on air ; I lived in a ... heart's talk of two poets , so much the purer for its being uncontaminated by the desire for fame . The time came ...
... heart was on its knees the next minute , and for the two or three inter- vening days I trod on air ; I lived in a ... heart's talk of two poets , so much the purer for its being uncontaminated by the desire for fame . The time came ...
Page 110
... heart profoundly went : Not that thy voice did as an echo chime , But as if born by Nature to prefer The depths of Jonson or of Massinger ! Simple in life , of independent breast , Thou hadst no pride , or vanity , or guile , The ...
... heart profoundly went : Not that thy voice did as an echo chime , But as if born by Nature to prefer The depths of Jonson or of Massinger ! Simple in life , of independent breast , Thou hadst no pride , or vanity , or guile , The ...
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... heart , the unworldly temper , the fine courtesy , betray them- selves in every utterance of Lamb . It was in early manhood and in snatches of time that his first verses were written ; he speaks of them as creatures of the fancy and ...
... heart , the unworldly temper , the fine courtesy , betray them- selves in every utterance of Lamb . It was in early manhood and in snatches of time that his first verses were written ; he speaks of them as creatures of the fancy and ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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