The Essays of Elia: 1st [and 2d] seriesE. Moxon, 1841 |
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... expression , may show the manner in which he endeavoured to discharge his parental duties : — " Dear Grandam , Pray to God to bless Your grandson dear , with happiness ; That , as I do advance each year , I may be taught my God to fear ...
... expression , may show the manner in which he endeavoured to discharge his parental duties : — " Dear Grandam , Pray to God to bless Your grandson dear , with happiness ; That , as I do advance each year , I may be taught my God to fear ...
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... expression . While Coleridge remained at the university , they met occasionally on his visits to London ; and when he quitted it , and came to town , full of mantling hopes and glorious schemes , Lamb became his admiring disciple . The ...
... expression . While Coleridge remained at the university , they met occasionally on his visits to London ; and when he quitted it , and came to town , full of mantling hopes and glorious schemes , Lamb became his admiring disciple . The ...
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... expression , a certain air of mysticism , more consonant to the conceits of pagan philosophy , than consistent with the humility of genuine piety . To instance now in your last letter , - you say , ' it is by the press , that God hath ...
... expression , a certain air of mysticism , more consonant to the conceits of pagan philosophy , than consistent with the humility of genuine piety . To instance now in your last letter , - you say , ' it is by the press , that God hath ...
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... expression appears to me inaccurate - portion of omnipresence - omnipresence is an attribute whose very essence is unlimitedness . How can omnipresence be affirmed of anything in part ? But enough of this spirit of disputaci- ousness ...
... expression appears to me inaccurate - portion of omnipresence - omnipresence is an attribute whose very essence is unlimitedness . How can omnipresence be affirmed of anything in part ? But enough of this spirit of disputaci- ousness ...
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... expression . allow no hot beds in the gardens of Parnassus . I am unwilling to go to bed , and leave my sheet unfilled ( a good piece of night - work for an idle body like me ) , so will finish with beg- ging you to send me the earliest ...
... expression . allow no hot beds in the gardens of Parnassus . I am unwilling to go to bed , and leave my sheet unfilled ( a good piece of night - work for an idle body like me ) , so will finish with beg- ging you to send me the earliest ...
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actor admiration beauty Benchers BERNARD BARTON character CHARLES LAMB Christ's Hospital Coleridge confess dear delight dreams EDWARD MOXON Elia Enfield Essays of Elia eyes face fancy fear feel genius gentle gentleman give grace hand hath head hear heard heart Hertfordshire honour hope hour humour Inner Temple kind knew lady Lamb Lamb's less live London look Malvolio manner Margate MDCCCXLI ment mind Miss moral morning Munden nature ness never night occasion once pain passion perhaps person play pleasant pleasure poem poet poetry poor present pretty Quaker reason remember ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON scarce seemed seen sense sight Skiddaw sonnet sort Southey spirit sure sweet taste tell thee thing thou thought tion truth verse walk whist wish words Wordsworth write young younkers
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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