The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1838 - 476 pages |
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... better library - are very agreeable and edifying specta- cles . I can look upon these defunct dragons with compla- cency . Thy heavy , odd - shaped , ivory - handled penknives ( our ancestors had everything on a larger scale than we ...
... better library - are very agreeable and edifying specta- cles . I can look upon these defunct dragons with compla- cency . Thy heavy , odd - shaped , ivory - handled penknives ( our ancestors had everything on a larger scale than we ...
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... better than such as at first sight seems most abhor- rent from his beloved studies ) —to while away some good hours of my time in the contemplation of indigoes , cottons , raw silks , piece goods , flowered or otherwise . In the first ...
... better than such as at first sight seems most abhor- rent from his beloved studies ) —to while away some good hours of my time in the contemplation of indigoes , cottons , raw silks , piece goods , flowered or otherwise . In the first ...
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... better Jude with Simon , clubbing ( as it were ) their sanctities together , to make up one poor gaudy - day between them , as an economy unworthy of the dispensation . These were bright visitations in a scholar's and a clerk's life ...
... better Jude with Simon , clubbing ( as it were ) their sanctities together , to make up one poor gaudy - day between them , as an economy unworthy of the dispensation . These were bright visitations in a scholar's and a clerk's life ...
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... better than all the waters of Damascus . " On the muses ' hill he is happy , and good , as one of the shepherds on the Delectable Mountains ; and when he goes about with you to show you the halls and col- leges , you think you have with ...
... better than all the waters of Damascus . " On the muses ' hill he is happy , and good , as one of the shepherds on the Delectable Mountains ; and when he goes about with you to show you the halls and col- leges , you think you have with ...
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... better , I think , than he can - for he was a home - seeking lad , and did not much care for such water pastimes : how merrily we would sally forth into the fields ; and strip under the first warmth of the sun ; and wanton like young ...
... better , I think , than he can - for he was a home - seeking lad , and did not much care for such water pastimes : how merrily we would sally forth into the fields ; and strip under the first warmth of the sun ; and wanton like young ...
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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 100 - What wond'rous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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 357 - 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 141 - ... that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later; I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious, arts make their way among mankind.
Page 250 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 392 - Achilles' image stood his spear Grip'd in an armed hand; himself behind Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind: A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head, Stood for the whole to be imagined.
Page 142 - Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous, — no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon, — no coal-heaver bolteth him in reeking sausages, — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, — and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Page 360 - ... the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, — why torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy? As if the childish pleasure of getting his gilt robes and sceptre again could tempt him to act over again his misused station ! — as if, at his years and with his experience, anything was left but to...