...never to be weaned from: "Sun and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats...irony itself ... do these things go out with life?" (50) Alas, they do. By the end of the essay, however, the note of pathos is gone. Elia, mustering up...

...tentative question is allowed: "Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats...vanities, and jests, and irony itself" - do these things form no part of your Eternity?30 This passage recalls another one. In Strachey's literary judgements,...

...state of being staggers me. Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats...shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him? (2: 29-30) Amusingly, in his zeal to vindicate mundane reality, Lamb quite forgets his customary (and,...

...humorously, yet wistfully, tearfully, " and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats...irony itself — do these things go out with life?" He wants to know if a ghost can laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him? and...

...of being staggers me. • Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats...conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself—do these things go out with life ? 1 Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you...

...and sky," questions Elia wistfully, "and solitary walks, and summer holidays and the greenness of the fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes,...conversations, and innocent vanities and jests, and even irony itself; do these things go out with life?" Thus Elia droops and flutters in his thousand...

...in his speculations too, "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 fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself — do these things go...

...in his speculations too, "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 fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself — do these things go...

...the fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and 68 The Yale Literary Magazine. [No. 557 society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light,...conversations, and innocent vanities and jests, and even irony itself; do these things go out with life?" Thus Elia droops and flutters in his thousand...

...attachment. Well might he ask — Sun and aky and breeze, and solitary walks and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society and candlelight, and fireside conversa8 1857.] Literary Style. tions, and innocent vanities and jests,...