The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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Page 139
... whole pro- cess of their production to its starting - point in the deep places of the mind , he seems to realise the but half - conscious intuitions of Hogarth or Shakespeare , and develops the great ruling unities which have swayed ...
... whole pro- cess of their production to its starting - point in the deep places of the mind , he seems to realise the but half - conscious intuitions of Hogarth or Shakespeare , and develops the great ruling unities which have swayed ...
Page 153
... whole . This infirmity ( which is nothing to brag of ) may be seen in my two little compo- sitions , the tale and my play , in both which no reader , however partial , can find any story . " My brain , " he says in a letter to ...
... whole . This infirmity ( which is nothing to brag of ) may be seen in my two little compo- sitions , the tale and my play , in both which no reader , however partial , can find any story . " My brain , " he says in a letter to ...
Page 180
... whole episode is not one jot the less humorous because it is clear to the reader , not that the traveller invented his facts , but that Lamb invented the traveller . Or yet once more , how exquisitely unforeseen and how rich in ...
... whole episode is not one jot the less humorous because it is clear to the reader , not that the traveller invented his facts , but that Lamb invented the traveller . Or yet once more , how exquisitely unforeseen and how rich in ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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