Works: Including His Most Intesesting LettersBell and Daldy, 1867 - 648 pages |
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... seen excepted ) I have not writ fifty lines since I left school . It may not be amiss to remark that my grand- mother ( on whom the verses are written ) " Unfurnished at present with any sheet - lived housekeeper in a family the fifty ...
... seen excepted ) I have not writ fifty lines since I left school . It may not be amiss to remark that my grand- mother ( on whom the verses are written ) " Unfurnished at present with any sheet - lived housekeeper in a family the fifty ...
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... seen the gentle- man , thou wouldst have sworn that it must indeed have been many years ago , for his rueful physiognomy would have scared away the playful goddess from the meeting , where he presided , for ever . A wit ! a wit ! what ...
... seen the gentle- man , thou wouldst have sworn that it must indeed have been many years ago , for his rueful physiognomy would have scared away the playful goddess from the meeting , where he presided , for ever . A wit ! a wit ! what ...
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... seen quoted , took for a choice fragment of an old dramatist , and went to Lamb to assist him in finding the author . To have my love to bed and to arise . ' Midsummer Night's Dream . " I think there is a sweetness in the versi ...
... seen quoted , took for a choice fragment of an old dramatist , and went to Lamb to assist him in finding the author . To have my love to bed and to arise . ' Midsummer Night's Dream . " I think there is a sweetness in the versi ...
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... seen . nature . ) ' So lonely ' twas , that God himself Scarce. extract or two that might not displease you ; but I will not do that ; and whether it will come to anything , I know not , for I am as slow as a Fleming painter when I ...
... seen . nature . ) ' So lonely ' twas , that God himself Scarce. extract or two that might not displease you ; but I will not do that ; and whether it will come to anything , I know not , for I am as slow as a Fleming painter when I ...
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... seen . But fate and wisest Stewart ' say No.t 6 " I can send you 200 pens and six quires of paper immediately , if they will answer the carriage by coach . It would be foolish to pack ' em up cum multis libris et cæteris , — they would ...
... seen . But fate and wisest Stewart ' say No.t 6 " I can send you 200 pens and six quires of paper immediately , if they will answer the carriage by coach . It would be foolish to pack ' em up cum multis libris et cæteris , — they would ...
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admiration beauty BERNARD BARTON blank verse bless character CHARLES LAMB Christ's Hospital Coleridge David Hartley dead Dear death delightful dream Dyer Elia Enfield Essays Essays of Elia excuse expression eyes fancy fear feel following letter genius gentle gentleman George Dyer give Godwin gone grace hand hath Hazlitt head hear heard heart honour hope humour Inner Temple Islington Joan of Arc kind lady Lamb's lines live Lloyd London look Mary Mary Lamb mind morning Moxon nature never night person play pleasant pleasure poem poet poetry poor Pray present pretty Quaker remember scarce seems Shakspeare sister Skiddaw sonnet soul Southey spirit Stowey sweet talk tell thank thee things thou thought tion verses Vincent Bourne volume walk week wish words Wordsworth write written young
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Page 457 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ;' and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 390 - ... a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I - I myself, and not another - would eat her nice cake - and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present...
Page 598 - While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination quite, And their hasty wrath let fall, To appease their frantic gall, On the darling thing whatever, Whence they feel it death to sever, Though it be, as they, perforce, Guiltless of the sad divorce. For I must (nor let it grieve thee, Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee.
Page 67 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Page 414 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, " That is Mr ." A rap, between familiarity and respect, that demands, and at the same time seems to despair of entertainment. He entereth smiling and embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner-time, when the table is full.
Page 469 - It strengthened and knit our compact closer. We could never have been what we have been to each other if we had always had the sufficiency which you now complain of. The resisting power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away.
Page 414 - With half the familiarity, he might pass for a casual dependant ; with more boldness, he would be in no danger of being taken for what he is. He is too humble for a friend ; yet taketh on him more state than befits a client. He is a worse guest than a country tenant, inasmuch as he bringeth up no rent ; yet 'tis odds, from his garb and demeanour, that your guests take him for one.
Page 383 - JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died — of my world at least. His old clients look for him among the pens ; and missing him, reproach the altered feast of St. Bartholomew, and the glory of Smithfield departed for ever.
Page 326 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Page 65 - Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt, that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like ; instead of that beautiful interest in wild tales, which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child.