The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... talk ; he perhaps did not under- stand the subject scientifically . And when Hazlitt's impetu- osity drove him , as it sometimes did , into fierce expressions on public affairs , these were usually received in silence ; and the matter ...
... talk ; he perhaps did not under- stand the subject scientifically . And when Hazlitt's impetu- osity drove him , as it sometimes did , into fierce expressions on public affairs , these were usually received in silence ; and the matter ...
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... talk of Robin Hood who never shot in his bow , so do many talk of Charles Lamb who have never entered in spirit into the homely and happy sanctuary of his more private or inward presence . But for all who love him the charm of that ...
... talk of Robin Hood who never shot in his bow , so do many talk of Charles Lamb who have never entered in spirit into the homely and happy sanctuary of his more private or inward presence . But for all who love him the charm of that ...
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... talk being , as usual , chiefly appropriated by himself . One day the soliloquy thus poured into the ears of the two friends turned upon the blessing of faith , and it was both in tone and phraseology marked by the accepted dialect of ...
... talk being , as usual , chiefly appropriated by himself . One day the soliloquy thus poured into the ears of the two friends turned upon the blessing of faith , and it was both in tone and phraseology marked by the accepted dialect of ...
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