The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First seriesE. Moxon, 1836 |
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... knew it , -a magnificent relic ! What alterations may have been made in it since , I have had no opportunities of verifying . Time , I take for granted , has not freshened it . No wind has resuscitated the face of the sleeping waters ...
... knew it , -a magnificent relic ! What alterations may have been made in it since , I have had no opportunities of verifying . Time , I take for granted , has not freshened it . No wind has resuscitated the face of the sleeping waters ...
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... than for a man to be ungrateful . Thy sire was old surly M- , the unapproachable church- warden of Bishopsgate . He knew not what he did , when he begat thee , like spring , gentle offspring THE SOUTH - SEA HOUSE . 13.
... than for a man to be ungrateful . Thy sire was old surly M- , the unapproachable church- warden of Bishopsgate . He knew not what he did , when he begat thee , like spring , gentle offspring THE SOUTH - SEA HOUSE . 13.
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... knew also , thou most assuredly wouldst never turn over one leaf of the illustrious folio : -- what but the mere spirit of con- tradiction , and childish love of getting the better of thy friend ? —Then , worst cut of all ! to transport ...
... knew also , thou most assuredly wouldst never turn over one leaf of the illustrious folio : -- what but the mere spirit of con- tradiction , and childish love of getting the better of thy friend ? —Then , worst cut of all ! to transport ...
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... knew Sarah Battle many of the best years of it - saw her take out her snuff - box when it was her turn to play ; or snuff a candle in the middle of a game ; or ring for a ser- vant , till it was fairly over . She never introduced , or ...
... knew Sarah Battle many of the best years of it - saw her take out her snuff - box when it was her turn to play ; or snuff a candle in the middle of a game ; or ring for a ser- vant , till it was fairly over . She never introduced , or ...
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... knew her to forfeit a rubber ( a five dollar stake ) , because she would not take advantage of the turn - up knave , which would have given it her , but which she must have claimed by the disgraceful tenure of declaring " two for his ...
... knew her to forfeit a rubber ( a five dollar stake ) , because she would not take advantage of the turn - up knave , which would have given it her , but which she must have claimed by the disgraceful tenure of declaring " two for his ...
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admired Benchers better Bishopsgate Bo-bo boys Bridget cards character CHRIST'S HOSPITAL comedy common confess countenance cousin creature cribbage dear dreams Elia face fancy favourite fear feel female fortune gardens gentle gentleman give Gladmans grace hath heart Hertfordshire honour humours imagination impertinent Inner Temple John Kemble kind knew lady lative least lenitive less lived look Love for Love Malvolio manner married matter mind moral Munden nature nectarines nereids never night occasions once palate passed passion person play pleasant pleasure poor present pretty quadrille Quakers racters Religio Medici remember scene seemed seen sense sentiment Shacklewell sight Sizar smile solemn sometimes sort sound spectators spirit stand stood story suppose sweet tender thee thing thou thought tion truth turn walks whist woman young younkers youth
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Página 187 - s made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside My soul into the boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Página 45 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 187 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Página 230 - ... old great house and gardens too, but had too much spirit to be always pent up within their boundaries, — and how their uncle grew up to man's estate as brave as he was handsome...
Página 228 - I in particular used to spend many hours by myself in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I to be turned into marble with them...
Página 151 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 19 - What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage...
Página 187 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Página 184 - I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places ? — these are my oldest recollections.
Página 185 - What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that Time which they measured, and to take their revelations of its flight immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain of light!