The Essays of Elia: 1st [and 2d] seriesE. Moxon, 1841 |
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... tion was there laid for a friendship to which the world is probably indebted for all that Lamb has added to its sources of pleasure . Junior to Coleridge by two years , and far in- ferior to him in all scholastic acquirements , Lamb had ...
... tion was there laid for a friendship to which the world is probably indebted for all that Lamb has added to its sources of pleasure . Junior to Coleridge by two years , and far in- ferior to him in all scholastic acquirements , Lamb had ...
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... married , and relinquished his splendid dream of emigra- tion , was resident at Bristol ; and Lamb , who had quitted the Temple , and lived with his father , then sinking into dotage , felt his ab- LETTERS TO COLERIDGE . 7.
... married , and relinquished his splendid dream of emigra- tion , was resident at Bristol ; and Lamb , who had quitted the Temple , and lived with his father , then sinking into dotage , felt his ab- LETTERS TO COLERIDGE . 7.
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... tion and selling the copyright . The book itself not a week's work ! To - day's portion of my journalising epistle has been very dull and poverty - stricken . I will here end . " " Tuesday night . " I have been drinking egg - hot and ...
... tion and selling the copyright . The book itself not a week's work ! To - day's portion of my journalising epistle has been very dull and poverty - stricken . I will here end . " " Tuesday night . " I have been drinking egg - hot and ...
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... tion to need my humble tribute of advice ; in pain , and in sickness , and in all manner of dis- appointments , I trust you have that within you which shall speak peace to your mind . Make it , I entreat you , one of your puny comforts ...
... tion to need my humble tribute of advice ; in pain , and in sickness , and in all manner of dis- appointments , I trust you have that within you which shall speak peace to your mind . Make it , I entreat you , one of your puny comforts ...
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... tion with the scenes of the world alike narrow ; never having kept separate company , or any company ' together - never having read separate books , and few books together - what knowledge have we to convey to each other ? In our little ...
... tion with the scenes of the world alike narrow ; never having kept separate company , or any company ' together - never having read separate books , and few books together - what knowledge have we to convey to each other ? In our little ...
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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