Works: Including His Most Intesesting LettersBell and Daldy, 1867 - 648 pages |
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... speak peace to your mind . Make it , I entreat you , one of your puny comforts , that I feel for you , and share all your griefs with you . I feel as if I were troubling you about little things ; now I am going to resume the subject of ...
... speak peace to your mind . Make it , I entreat you , one of your puny comforts , that I feel for you , and share all your griefs with you . I feel as if I were troubling you about little things ; now I am going to resume the subject of ...
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... speak it , I long to leave off , for it is unprofitable to my soul ; I feel it is ; and these questions about words , and debates about alterations , take me off , I am conscious , from the properer business of my life . Take my sonnets ...
... speak it , I long to leave off , for it is unprofitable to my soul ; I feel it is ; and these questions about words , and debates about alterations , take me off , I am conscious , from the properer business of my life . Take my sonnets ...
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... speak of myself . My motto is , ' contented with little , yet wishing for more . ' Now , the books you wish for would require some pounds , which , I am sorry to say , I have In the year 1800 , Lamb carried into effect not by me ; so ...
... speak of myself . My motto is , ' contented with little , yet wishing for more . ' Now , the books you wish for would require some pounds , which , I am sorry to say , I have In the year 1800 , Lamb carried into effect not by me ; so ...
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... speak , especially George Dyer , who anybody ; a great farmer , somewhat con- has no other name , nor idea , nor definition of cerned in an agricultural magazine - reads no Cambridge , —namely , its being a market- poetry but Shakspeare ...
... speak , especially George Dyer , who anybody ; a great farmer , somewhat con- has no other name , nor idea , nor definition of cerned in an agricultural magazine - reads no Cambridge , —namely , its being a market- poetry but Shakspeare ...
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... speak ; but the sage managers have a scene of frigid chiding not vivified by any chosen Miss Heard , except Miss Tidswell , fire of Kemble's own , Antonio drew his the worst actress ever seen or heard . Now , sword and plunged it into ...
... speak ; but the sage managers have a scene of frigid chiding not vivified by any chosen Miss Heard , except Miss Tidswell , fire of Kemble's own , Antonio drew his the worst actress ever seen or heard . Now , sword and plunged it into ...
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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.