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... Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters - Page 469by Charles Lamb - 1867 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1823 - 450 pages
...circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is supplemental youth ; a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the...ride, where we formerly walked ; live better, and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so— than we had means to do in those good old days yon speak of.... | |
| English literature - 1823 - 734 pages
...circumstances cannot straiten— with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is supplemental youth; a sorry supplement indeed, .but I fear the...ride, where we formerly walked ; live better, and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so— than we had means to do in those good old days. you speak... | |
| Charles Lamb - Decision making - 1833 - 308 pages
...power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit, which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is...ride, where we formerly walked : live better, and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so — than we had means to do in those good old days you speak... | |
| Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit, which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is...ride, where we formerly walked : live better, and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so — than we had means to do in those good old days you speak... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit, which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is...ride, where we formerly walked: live better, and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so — than we had means to do in those good old days you speak... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit, which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is...ride, where we formerly walked: live better, and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so — than we had means to do in those good old days you speak... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit, which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is...supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to Ъе had. We must ride where we formerly walked: lire better and lie softer — and shall be wise to... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit, which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is...ride where we formerly walked — live better and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so — than we had means to do in those good old days you speak... | |
| Charles Lamb - Essays - 1851 - 396 pages
...power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit, which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age is...ride where we formerly walked — live better and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so — than we had means to do in those good old days you speak... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...spirit, which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away. Competence to age ia supplementary youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but...ride, where we formerly walked : live better, and lie softer — and shall be wise to do so — than we had means to do in those good old days you speak... | |
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