The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... Poor Lamb , indeed ! Poor Coleridge , robbed of his will ; poor Wordsworth , de- voured by his own ego ; poor Southey , writing his tomes and deeming himself a classic ; poor Carlyle , with his nine volumes of memoirs , where he " Lies ...
... Poor Lamb , indeed ! Poor Coleridge , robbed of his will ; poor Wordsworth , de- voured by his own ego ; poor Southey , writing his tomes and deeming himself a classic ; poor Carlyle , with his nine volumes of memoirs , where he " Lies ...
Page 260
... Poor Lamb ! Poor England , when such a despicable abortion is named genius ! He said , " There are just two things I regret in England's history : first , that Guy Fawkes ' plot did not take effect ( there would have been so glorious an ...
... Poor Lamb ! Poor England , when such a despicable abortion is named genius ! He said , " There are just two things I regret in England's history : first , that Guy Fawkes ' plot did not take effect ( there would have been so glorious an ...
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... poor old Lamb . His talk contemptibly small , indicat- ing wondrous ignorance and shallowness , even when it was serious and good - mannered , which it seldom was ; usually ill - mannered ( to a degree ) , screwed into frosty ...
... poor old Lamb . His talk contemptibly small , indicat- ing wondrous ignorance and shallowness , even when it was serious and good - mannered , which it seldom was ; usually ill - mannered ( to a degree ) , screwed into frosty ...
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