The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1875 |
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... smile at the comparative insignificance of the pretensions which had just awed you . His intellect was of the shallowest order . It did not reach to a saw or a proverb . His mind was in its original state of white paper . A suckling ...
... smile at the comparative insignificance of the pretensions which had just awed you . His intellect was of the shallowest order . It did not reach to a saw or a proverb . His mind was in its original state of white paper . A suckling ...
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... ) whose portrait seems to smile upon their overlooked beadsman , and to adopt me for Then , to take a peep in , by - the - way , at the but their own . teries and sculleries , redolent of antique hospitality : the ESSAYS OF ELIA . 21.
... ) whose portrait seems to smile upon their overlooked beadsman , and to adopt me for Then , to take a peep in , by - the - way , at the but their own . teries and sculleries , redolent of antique hospitality : the ESSAYS OF ELIA . 21.
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... smiling , fresh powdered , betokening a mild day . The other , an old , discoloured , unkempt , angry caxon , denoting frequent and bloody execution . Wo to the school when he * Cowley + In this and everything B. was the antipodes of ...
... smiling , fresh powdered , betokening a mild day . The other , an old , discoloured , unkempt , angry caxon , denoting frequent and bloody execution . Wo to the school when he * Cowley + In this and everything B. was the antipodes of ...
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... smile , and still more cordial laugh , with which thou wert wont to make the old cloisters shake , in thy cogni ... smiles , with that beautiful counte- nance , with which , ( for thou wert the Nireus formosus of the school , ) in the ...
... smile , and still more cordial laugh , with which thou wert wont to make the old cloisters shake , in thy cogni ... smiles , with that beautiful counte- nance , with which , ( for thou wert the Nireus formosus of the school , ) in the ...
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... smile , and troubleth you with no receipt ; confining himself to no set season . Every day is his Candlemas , or his feast of Holy Michael . He ap- plieth the lene tormentum of a pleasant look to your purse— which to that gentle warmth ...
... smile , and troubleth you with no receipt ; confining himself to no set season . Every day is his Candlemas , or his feast of Holy Michael . He ap- plieth the lene tormentum of a pleasant look to your purse— which to that gentle warmth ...
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Page 100 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness. The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Page 84 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 233 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Page 35 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 287 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 483 - A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed. And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flushed her spirit.
Page 236 - High-way, since you my chief Parnassus be, And that my Muse (to some ears not unsweet) Tempers her words to trampling horses' feet More oft than to a chamber melody ; Now blessed you bear onward blessed me To her, where I my heart safe left shall meet ; My Muse, and I must you of duty greet With thanks and wishes, wishing thankfully.
Page 118 - ... nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would be foolish indeed.
Page 357 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 142 - There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is well called ; the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance, with the adhesive oleaginous.