Charles Lamb, Volume 9Harper & Brothers, 1882 - 182 pages |
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... scene , I preserved a tranquillity which by - standers may have construed into indifference - a tranquillity not of despair . Is it folly or sin in me to say that it was a religious principle that most sup- ported me ? I allow much to ...
... scene , I preserved a tranquillity which by - standers may have construed into indifference - a tranquillity not of despair . Is it folly or sin in me to say that it was a religious principle that most sup- ported me ? I allow much to ...
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... scene which he afterwards told the world " moved pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern " with which he was acquainted . The conduct of the little story bears strong traces of the influence of Richardson and Mackenzie , and ...
... scene which he afterwards told the world " moved pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern " with which he was acquainted . The conduct of the little story bears strong traces of the influence of Richardson and Mackenzie , and ...
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... scene of it in that Hertfordshire village of Widford where so many of his own happiest hours had been spent , and that the heroine , Rosamund Gray , is drawn with those features on which he was never weary of dwelling in the object of ...
... scene of it in that Hertfordshire village of Widford where so many of his own happiest hours had been spent , and that the heroine , Rosamund Gray , is drawn with those features on which he was never weary of dwelling in the object of ...
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... scenes ? " " What must I have been doing all my life ? " This might well be the language of tender retrospect indulged by some man of sixty . It is that of a young man of six- and - twenty . It serves to show us how much of life had ...
... scenes ? " " What must I have been doing all my life ? " This might well be the language of tender retrospect indulged by some man of sixty . It is that of a young man of six- and - twenty . It serves to show us how much of life had ...
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... scene of his drama , written in a language for the most part closely imitated from certain Elizabethan models , in the period of the Restoration , and with a strange carelessness introduced side by side with the imagery and rhythm of ...
... scene of his drama , written in a language for the most part closely imitated from certain Elizabethan models , in the period of the Restoration , and with a strange carelessness introduced side by side with the imagery and rhythm of ...
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Page 43 - Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man ; Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly ; Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.
Page 117 - ... receding, and still receding till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : "We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name...
Page 1 - I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places ? — these are of my oldest recollections.
Page 62 - HESTER When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. 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 commdn rate, ; That flushed her spirit.
Page 19 - She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion.
Page 50 - In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its establishment, kept an author, who was bound to furnish daily a quantum of witty paragraphs. Sixpence a joke — and it was thought pretty high too — was Dan Stuart's settled remuneration in these cases. The chat of the day, scandal, but, above all, dress, furnished the material. The length of no paragraph was to exceed seven lines. Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant.
Page 104 - In ample space, under the broadest shade, A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine Bay, and Afric coast.