Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles LambEdward Moxon and Company, 1864 - 437 Seiten |
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... dear , good - meaning , no- thinking creature had been dumfounding a company of us with a detail of inextricable difficulties , in which the circumstances of an acquaintance of his were in- volved . No clew of light offered itself . He ...
... dear , good - meaning , no- thinking creature had been dumfounding a company of us with a detail of inextricable difficulties , in which the circumstances of an acquaintance of his were in- volved . No clew of light offered itself . He ...
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... ring , By way of marriage , I will you take , and lady make . " Turn we to the version of it , ten times diluted , of dear Mat . Prior , -in his own way unequalled , and a poet now - a - days too much neglected . TABLE - TALK . 25.
... ring , By way of marriage , I will you take , and lady make . " Turn we to the version of it , ten times diluted , of dear Mat . Prior , -in his own way unequalled , and a poet now - a - days too much neglected . TABLE - TALK . 25.
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... dear at such a price . Some years ago , a gentleman in passing along Cheapside saw the figures 1,069 , of which num- ber he was the sole proprietor , flaming on the window of a lottery - office as a capital prize . Somewhat flurried by ...
... dear at such a price . Some years ago , a gentleman in passing along Cheapside saw the figures 1,069 , of which num- ber he was the sole proprietor , flaming on the window of a lottery - office as a capital prize . Somewhat flurried by ...
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... DEAR M - Though none of your acquaintance can with greater sincerity congratulate you upon this happy conjuncture than myself , one of the oldest of them , it was with pain I found you , after the ceremony , depositing in the vestry ...
... DEAR M - Though none of your acquaintance can with greater sincerity congratulate you upon this happy conjuncture than myself , one of the oldest of them , it was with pain I found you , after the ceremony , depositing in the vestry ...
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... dear sir , With much respect , yours , & c . , ON ELIA . THE CUSTOM OF HISSING AT THE THEATRES ; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A CLUB OF DAMNED AUTHORS . MR . REFLECTOR , -I am one of those persons whom the world has thought proper to designate ...
... dear sir , With much respect , yours , & c . , ON ELIA . THE CUSTOM OF HISSING AT THE THEATRES ; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A CLUB OF DAMNED AUTHORS . MR . REFLECTOR , -I am one of those persons whom the world has thought proper to designate ...
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admired Alcinous Antinous Bacha beauty beggar behold better Betty called Calypso Charles Lamb church Circe CUPID'S REVENGE Cutlet Cyclop daughter Davenport dead dear death delight Demodocus dream Echetus EDITOR Elia Essays Essays of Elia Eumæus Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fancy father fear fell Flint gave gentleman give gods guest hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honor Jove king knew lady Lamb's land Leucippus living London Magazine look Lord Lucy Lycia Marian marriage mind Minerva Miss F mother Nausicaa never night Ogygia palace passion Pendulous person Phæacian pleasure poor pretty prince remember Scylla seemed ship sight Sittingbourn sort speak stood story suitors tears Telemachus tell thee thing thou thought tion Tiresias told took Troy Ulysses wife wine woman words write young
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Seite 195 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Seite 24 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 139 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candlelight, and fireside conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself — do these things go out with life...
Seite 98 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Seite 43 - ... by an exposure to the influence of heaven in a long flow of generations, from the hard, acidulous, metallic tincture of the spring.
Seite 158 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Seite 185 - He was too much of the boyman. The toga virilis never sate gracefully on his shoulders. The impressions of infancy had burnt into him, and he resented the impertinence of manhood.
Seite 18 - The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Seite 140 - When I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, - that he. had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men and books, without an ineffectual turning and reference to him.
Seite 174 - How it staggered me to see the fine things in their ore ! interlined, corrected ! as if their words were mortal...