 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...to say of it, in a way of hal£complimcnt, half,irony, tliat it was too domical for representation. "Poor JB ! may all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities." Under him were many good and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...than with the pious ejaculation of C. — when he heard that his old master was on his death-bed. " Poor JB! — may all his faults be forgiven ; and...may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities." Under him were many good and... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...to say of it, in a way of half-compliment, haltirony, that it was too classical for representation. "Poor JB! may all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, ail head and wings, with no bottonu to reproach hia sublunary infirmities." Under him were many good... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...than with the pious ejaculation of C. — when he heard that his old master was on his death-bed " Poor JB ! — may all his faults be forgiven ; and...may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities." Under him were many good and... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...than with the pious ejaculation of C , when he heard that his old master was on his deathbed — " Poor JB ! may all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities." Under him were many good and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...than with the pious ejaculation of C. — when he heard that his old master was on his death-bed : " Poor JB ! — may all his faults be forgiven ; and...may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities." Under him were many good and... | |
 | Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...and among the rest the poet C , who, when he heard that his old master was on his death-bed said, " May all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head aad wings, with no bottoms to reproach his infirmities." THE EARLY LIFE OF DR. ISAAC WATTS. THERE... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...Coleridge (the joke was no doubt Lamb's own) when he heard that his old master was on his deathbed, ' Poor JB, may all his faults be forgiven, and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities." How much of all this may be... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1845 - 396 pages
...better than with the pious ejaculation of C., when he heard that his old master was on his deathbed : " Poor JB ! — may all his faults be forgiven ; and...may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities." Under him were many good and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1852 - 684 pages
...pious ejaculation of C. — when he heard that his old master was on his deathbed: "Poor J. В.! — a% C۸ h +I Ի E ^ s ?k ơݷ - < $9 ( `@ O 6~~ ( head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities." Under him were many good and... | |
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Poor JB !— may all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities. 
