The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1875 |
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... whole company his enemies . His conceptions rose kindlier than his utterance , and his hap- piest impromptus had the appearance of effort . He has been accused of trying to be witty , when in truth he was but struggling to give his poor ...
... whole company his enemies . His conceptions rose kindlier than his utterance , and his hap- piest impromptus had the appearance of effort . He has been accused of trying to be witty , when in truth he was but struggling to give his poor ...
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... whole duty of man consisted in writing off dividend warrants . The striking of the annual balance in the company's books ( which , perhaps , differed from the bal- ance of last year in the sum of 25l . 1s . 6d . ) occupied his day's and ...
... whole duty of man consisted in writing off dividend warrants . The striking of the annual balance in the company's books ( which , perhaps , differed from the bal- ance of last year in the sum of 25l . 1s . 6d . ) occupied his day's and ...
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... whole , the literary dignity of Elia is very little , if at all , compromised in the condescension . * Not that , in my anxious detail of the many commodities in- cidental to the life of a public office , I would be thought blind to ...
... whole , the literary dignity of Elia is very little , if at all , compromised in the condescension . * Not that , in my anxious detail of the many commodities in- cidental to the life of a public office , I would be thought blind to ...
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... whole day leaves when , by some strange arrangement , we were turned out , for the live- long day , upon our own hands , whether we had friends to go to , or none . I remember those bathing excursions to the New River , which L. recalls ...
... whole day leaves when , by some strange arrangement , we were turned out , for the live- long day , upon our own hands , whether we had friends to go to , or none . I remember those bathing excursions to the New River , which L. recalls ...
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... whole number of his school- fellows , whose joint lessons and sports he was thenceforth to share no more ; the awful presence of the steward , to be seen for the last time ; of the executioner beadle , clad in his state robe for the ...
... whole number of his school- fellows , whose joint lessons and sports he was thenceforth to share no more ; the awful presence of the steward , to be seen for the last time ; of the executioner beadle , clad in his state robe for the ...
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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.