Charles Lamb, Volume 9Harper & Brothers, 1882 - 182 pages |
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... writing verses , in the true spirit of the fut- ure Coleridge . The lines he composed in his sixteenth year ... written at the same age : " On the wide level of a mountain's head ( I knew not where , but ' twas some fairy place ) ...
... writing verses , in the true spirit of the fut- ure Coleridge . The lines he composed in his sixteenth year ... written at the same age : " On the wide level of a mountain's head ( I knew not where , but ' twas some fairy place ) ...
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... writing to his friend a few years later , from the " drudgery of the desk's dead wood " at the India House , Lamb complains sorrow- fully , " Not a soul loves Bowles here : scarce one has heard of Burns : few but laugh at me for reading ...
... writing to his friend a few years later , from the " drudgery of the desk's dead wood " at the India House , Lamb complains sorrow- fully , " Not a soul loves Bowles here : scarce one has heard of Burns : few but laugh at me for reading ...
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... written thirty years later in the London Magazine as the first of the papers signed Elia . The essay contains little ... writing of Charles Lamb of earlier date than 1795 has been preserved . His work as a junior clerk absorbed the ...
... written thirty years later in the London Magazine as the first of the papers signed Elia . The essay contains little ... writing of Charles Lamb of earlier date than 1795 has been preserved . His work as a junior clerk absorbed the ...
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... writing poems , and finding a temporary home for them in the columns of the Morning Chronicle . Among them ap- peared the sonnet on Mrs. Siddons , which was thus prob- ably Lamb's first appearance in print . Both the young men were ...
... writing poems , and finding a temporary home for them in the columns of the Morning Chronicle . Among them ap- peared the sonnet on Mrs. Siddons , which was thus prob- ably Lamb's first appearance in print . Both the young men were ...
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... written by Mr. Charles Lamb of the India House . Independently of the signature , their superior merit would have sufficiently distinguished them . " The effusions consisted of four son- nets , the one already noticed on Mrs. Siddons ...
... written by Mr. Charles Lamb of the India House . Independently of the signature , their superior merit would have sufficiently distinguished them . " The effusions consisted of four son- nets , the one already noticed on Mrs. Siddons ...
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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.