The Essays of Elia: 1st [and 2d] seriesE. Moxon, 1841 |
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... delightful of English writers is wholly due to his correspondents , who have kindly entrusted the precious relics to the care of the Editor , and have permitted them to be given to the world ; and to Mr. Moxon , by whose interest and ...
... delightful of English writers is wholly due to his correspondents , who have kindly entrusted the precious relics to the care of the Editor , and have permitted them to be given to the world ; and to Mr. Moxon , by whose interest and ...
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... delight pure. OF LAMB . CHAPTER I. [ 1775 to 1796. ] Lamb's Parentage , School - days , and Youth , to the com ... delighted to hear Charles read * . His wife was.
... delight pure. OF LAMB . CHAPTER I. [ 1775 to 1796. ] Lamb's Parentage , School - days , and Youth , to the com ... delighted to hear Charles read * . His wife was.
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1st [and 2d] series Charles Lamb. delighted to hear Charles read * . His wife was a woman of appearance so matronly and commanding , that , according to the recollection of one of Lamb's dearest schoolmates , " she might be taken for a ...
1st [and 2d] series Charles Lamb. delighted to hear Charles read * . His wife was a woman of appearance so matronly and commanding , that , according to the recollection of one of Lamb's dearest schoolmates , " she might be taken for a ...
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... delighted , when other duties did not hinder , to pass his vacations in their neighbour- hood , and indulge in that ... delightful visit to the two - shilling gallery of the theatre , in company with his sister , and an occasional supper ...
... delighted , when other duties did not hinder , to pass his vacations in their neighbour- hood , and indulge in that ... delightful visit to the two - shilling gallery of the theatre , in company with his sister , and an occasional supper ...
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... delight pure from all envy , and , it may be , enhanced by his sense of his own feebleness and difficulty of ... delightful years , ' even so far back as those old suppers at our old inn- when life was fresh , and topics exhaustless ...
... delight pure from all envy , and , it may be , enhanced by his sense of his own feebleness and difficulty of ... delightful years , ' even so far back as those old suppers at our old inn- when life was fresh , and topics exhaustless ...
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Էջ 12 - reckoned, in particular, on my aunt's living many years ; she was a very hearty old woman. But she was a mere skeleton before she died, looked more like a corpse that had lain weeks in the grave, than one fresh dead. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes tobehold the sun; but
Էջ 5 - witcombats," (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller), between him and CV Le G , " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man of war ; Master C'oleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances.
Էջ 32 - love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks; thy languish! grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries. Then, even of fellowship, О Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they
Էջ 32 - sweet pillows, sweetest bed A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light ; A rosy garland, and a weary head. And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shall in me, Livelier than elsewhere, STELLA'S image see.
Էջ 5 - PASS their annals by. Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee—the dark pillar not yet turned—Samuel Taylor Coleridge—Logician, Metaphysician, Bard !—How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, intranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the
Էջ 68 - who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision : and when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town-house was observed to
Էջ 54 - and think what we might spare it out of, and what saving we could hit upon, that should be an equivalent. A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it. " Do you remember the brown suit, which you made to hang upon
Էջ 69 - impart a share of the good things of this life which fall to their lot (few as mine are in this kind) to a friend. I protest I take as great an interest in my friend's pleasures, his relishes, and proper satisfactions, as in mine own. "Presents," I often say, " endear Absents.
Էջ 56 - crying, and asked if their little mourning which they had on was not for uncle John, and they looked up, and prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in