The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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Page 65
... manner and feeble voice making it doubly ludicrous . Mr. Lamb , on being pressed to sing , excused himself in his own peculiar manner , but offered to pronounce a Latin eulogium instead . This was accepted , and he accordingly stammered ...
... manner and feeble voice making it doubly ludicrous . Mr. Lamb , on being pressed to sing , excused himself in his own peculiar manner , but offered to pronounce a Latin eulogium instead . This was accepted , and he accordingly stammered ...
Page 133
... manner . The phrase could not be improved . Affecta- tion is a manner put on to impress others . Lamb's manner pleased himself — and that is why , to use a familiar phrase , he was " happy in it . " To one of the writers just named Lamb ...
... manner . The phrase could not be improved . Affecta- tion is a manner put on to impress others . Lamb's manner pleased himself — and that is why , to use a familiar phrase , he was " happy in it . " To one of the writers just named Lamb ...
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... manners , brings down the account of character to the few straggling remains of the last generation , seldom ventures beyond the bills of mortality , and occupies that nice point between egotism and disinterested humanity . No one makes ...
... manners , brings down the account of character to the few straggling remains of the last generation , seldom ventures beyond the bills of mortality , and occupies that nice point between egotism and disinterested humanity . No one makes ...
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