The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3T. Y. Crowell, 1881 - English essays |
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... stand idle by . ― Allan had a propensity to do little kind offices for everybody but at the sight of Rosamund Gray , his first fire was kindled his young mind seemed to have found an object , and his enthusiasm was from that time forth ...
... stand idle by . ― Allan had a propensity to do little kind offices for everybody but at the sight of Rosamund Gray , his first fire was kindled his young mind seemed to have found an object , and his enthusiasm was from that time forth ...
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... standing by , looking over her , with one hand thrown round her neck , and a finger of the other pointing to a passage in Julia's third letter . - " Maria ! in my hours of visionary indulgence , I have sometimes painted to myself a ...
... standing by , looking over her , with one hand thrown round her neck , and a finger of the other pointing to a passage in Julia's third letter . - " Maria ! in my hours of visionary indulgence , I have sometimes painted to myself a ...
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... In the visions of last night her spirit seemed to stand at my bedside a light , as of noonday , shone upon she opened my curtains she smiled upon the room - - me with the same placid smile as in her lifetime 36 ROSAMUND GRAY .
... In the visions of last night her spirit seemed to stand at my bedside a light , as of noonday , shone upon she opened my curtains she smiled upon the room - - me with the same placid smile as in her lifetime 36 ROSAMUND GRAY .
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... stands at the back of the house- we called ' it the Wilderness . A well - known form was missing , that used to meet ... standing , with all their luxuriant company of underwood - the squir- rel was there , and the melancholy cooings of ...
... stands at the back of the house- we called ' it the Wilderness . A well - known form was missing , that used to meet ... standing , with all their luxuriant company of underwood - the squir- rel was there , and the melancholy cooings of ...
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... standing about , few of them without some token , such as their slender means could provide , a black riband or something , to denote respect and a sense of their loss . The time itself was a time of anarchy , a time in which all ...
... standing about , few of them without some token , such as their slender means could provide , a black riband or something , to denote respect and a sense of their loss . The time itself was a time of anarchy , a time in which all ...
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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.