The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Miscellaneous prose, 1798-1834Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... sense , which would not suffer her to take advantage of her grandmother , to deceive her , or conceal any thing from her , though Margaret was old , and blind , and easy to be imposed upon . Another virtuous trait I recollect of ...
... sense , which would not suffer her to take advantage of her grandmother , to deceive her , or conceal any thing from her , though Margaret was old , and blind , and easy to be imposed upon . Another virtuous trait I recollect of ...
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... sense of unreality , which at last became too powerful - I rushed out of the room to give vent to my feelings . I wandered , scarce knowing where , into an old wood , that stands at the back of the house - we called it the Wilderness ...
... sense of unreality , which at last became too powerful - I rushed out of the room to give vent to my feelings . I wandered , scarce knowing where , into an old wood , that stands at the back of the house - we called it the Wilderness ...
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... sense of our ancestors . To shew in what manner they felt , when they placed themselves by the power of imagination in trying circumstances , in the conflicts of duty and passion , or the strife of contending duties ; what sort of loves ...
... sense of our ancestors . To shew in what manner they felt , when they placed themselves by the power of imagination in trying circumstances , in the conflicts of duty and passion , or the strife of contending duties ; what sort of loves ...
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... sense , somewhat a greater delicacy of perception in ques- tions of right and wrong , than goes to the writing of two or three hackneyed sentences about the laws of honour as opposed to the laws of the land , or a common - place against ...
... sense , somewhat a greater delicacy of perception in ques- tions of right and wrong , than goes to the writing of two or three hackneyed sentences about the laws of honour as opposed to the laws of the land , or a common - place against ...
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... sense into the absurd . " He makes his readers glow , weep , tremble , take any affection which he pleases , be moved by words , or in spite of them , be disgusted and overcome their disgust . FRANCIS BEAUMONT . - JOHN FLETCHER Maid's ...
... sense into the absurd . " He makes his readers glow , weep , tremble , take any affection which he pleases , be moved by words , or in spite of them , be disgusted and overcome their disgust . FRANCIS BEAUMONT . - JOHN FLETCHER Maid's ...
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Seite 470 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Seite 370 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Seite 501 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Seite 222 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Seite 200 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
Seite 218 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Seite 374 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Seite 104 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Seite 200 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, 220 And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Seite 391 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.