Works: Including His Most Intesesting LettersBell and Daldy, 1867 - 648 pages |
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... walk slow and peculiar , adding to the staid appearance of his figure . I never heard his name men- tioned without the addition of Charles , although , as there was no other boy of the name of Lamb , the addition was unnecessary ; but ...
... walk slow and peculiar , adding to the staid appearance of his figure . I never heard his name men- tioned without the addition of Charles , although , as there was no other boy of the name of Lamb , the addition was unnecessary ; but ...
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... walk gowned ; feel unusual powers . success can , indeed , ever compensate for the want of timely nurture beneath the shade of one of these venerable institutions -- for the sense of antiquity shading , not checking , the joyous ...
... walk gowned ; feel unusual powers . success can , indeed , ever compensate for the want of timely nurture beneath the shade of one of these venerable institutions -- for the sense of antiquity shading , not checking , the joyous ...
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... walk , gave him " a peep at the contrasting accidents of a great fortune , " and an alliance with that gentility of soul , which to appreciate , is to share . He has beautifully recorded his own recollections of this place in the essay ...
... walk , gave him " a peep at the contrasting accidents of a great fortune , " and an alliance with that gentility of soul , which to appreciate , is to share . He has beautifully recorded his own recollections of this place in the essay ...
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... walk , her manners ; distinctly understand you - you don't mean finds fault with her eyebrows ; can see no to make an actual ploughman of him ? Is wit in her ; his friend looks blank , he begins Lloyd with you yet ? Are you intimate ...
... walk , her manners ; distinctly understand you - you don't mean finds fault with her eyebrows ; can see no to make an actual ploughman of him ? Is wit in her ; his friend looks blank , he begins Lloyd with you yet ? Are you intimate ...
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... walk alone , and hear nothing . I am quite lost to conversation from disuse ; and out of the sphere of my little family , who , I am thankful , are dearer and dearer to me every day , I see no face that brightens up at my approach . My ...
... walk alone , and hear nothing . I am quite lost to conversation from disuse ; and out of the sphere of my little family , who , I am thankful , are dearer and dearer to me every day , I see no face that brightens up at my approach . My ...
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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.