The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3T. Y. Crowell, 1881 - English essays |
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... believe that thou canst take a perverse pleasure in distorting the brains of us , poor mortals . Lunatics ! moonstruck ! Calumny invented , and folly took up , these names . I would hope better things from thy mild aspect and benign ...
... believe that thou canst take a perverse pleasure in distorting the brains of us , poor mortals . Lunatics ! moonstruck ! Calumny invented , and folly took up , these names . I would hope better things from thy mild aspect and benign ...
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... believe , was something of a physiognomist , and thought she could trace in the countenance and manner of Rosamund , qualities which no brother of hers need be ashamed to love . The time was now come when Elinor was desirous of knowing ...
... believe , was something of a physiognomist , and thought she could trace in the countenance and manner of Rosamund , qualities which no brother of hers need be ashamed to love . The time was now come when Elinor was desirous of knowing ...
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... believe , Allan , on a second thought , was not very sorry to be spared the awkwardness of introducing two persons to each other , both so dear to him , but either of whom might happen not much to fancy the other . At times , indeed ...
... believe , Allan , on a second thought , was not very sorry to be spared the awkwardness of introducing two persons to each other , both so dear to him , but either of whom might happen not much to fancy the other . At times , indeed ...
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... believe , got little sleep that night . I know not , whether joy be not a more troublesome bedfellow than grief - hope keeps a body very wake- ful , I know . Elinor Clare was the best good creature- - the least selfish human being I ...
... believe , got little sleep that night . I know not , whether joy be not a more troublesome bedfellow than grief - hope keeps a body very wake- ful , I know . Elinor Clare was the best good creature- - the least selfish human being I ...
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... believe in a devil . " - Presently he bid us " not tell Allan Clare . " -Allan was hanging over him at that very moment , sobbing . - I could not resist the impulse , but cried out , " This is Allan Clare Allan Clare is come to see you ...
... believe in a devil . " - Presently he bid us " not tell Allan Clare . " -Allan was hanging over him at that very moment , sobbing . - I could not resist the impulse , but cried out , " This is Allan Clare Allan Clare is come to see you ...
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Page 197 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 91 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least : Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered...
Page 175 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 91 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 160 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 269 - 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 flush'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call : — if 'twas not pride, It was a joy to that allied, She did inherit.
Page 26 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 117 - I do not know where to find, in any play, a catastrophe so grand, so solemn, and so surprising, as in this. This is indeed, according to Milton, to describe high passions and high actions.
Page 141 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candlelight, and fireside conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself — do these things go out with life...
Page 95 - The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano ; they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches.