Essays of Charles LambGinn, 1904 - 413 Seiten |
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... better than me , and all my wretched imperfections I cover to myself by resolutely thinking on her goodness . She would share life and death , heaven and hell with me . She lives but for me . " 2 " Rich indeed in moral instruction ...
... better than me , and all my wretched imperfections I cover to myself by resolutely thinking on her goodness . She would share life and death , heaven and hell with me . She lives but for me . " 2 " Rich indeed in moral instruction ...
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... a subject . His title of the " Last of the Elizabethans " is nowhere better justified than in his fondness for verbal humor . He delights in words , and revives the literary standing of the long - neglected pun INTRODUCTION xxix.
... a subject . His title of the " Last of the Elizabethans " is nowhere better justified than in his fondness for verbal humor . He delights in words , and revives the literary standing of the long - neglected pun INTRODUCTION xxix.
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... of unlicked , incondite things — villanously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases . They had not been his , if they had been — other than such ; and better it is , that I A CHARACTER OF THE LATE ELIA I.
... of unlicked , incondite things — villanously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases . They had not been his , if they had been — other than such ; and better it is , that I A CHARACTER OF THE LATE ELIA I.
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Charles Lamb George Armstrong Wauchope. other than such ; and better it is , that a writer should be natural in a self - pleasing quaintness , than to affect a natural- ness ( so called ) that should be strange to him . Egotistical they ...
Charles Lamb George Armstrong Wauchope. other than such ; and better it is , that a writer should be natural in a self - pleasing quaintness , than to affect a natural- ness ( so called ) that should be strange to him . Egotistical they ...
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... better library , are very agreeable and edifying spectacles . I can look upon these defunct dragons with complacency . Thy heavy odd - shaped ivory - handled penknives ( our ancestors had everything on a larger scale than we have hearts ...
... better library , are very agreeable and edifying spectacles . I can look upon these defunct dragons with complacency . Thy heavy odd - shaped ivory - handled penknives ( our ancestors had everything on a larger scale than we have hearts ...
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Seite 37 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, 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.
Seite 119 - ... yet in some respects she might be said to be the mistress of it too) committed to her by the owner, who preferred living in a newer and more fashionable mansion which he had purchased somewhere in the adjoining county; but still she lived in it in a manner as if it had been her own, and kept up the dignity of the great house in a sort while she lived, which...
Seite 146 - ... pigs, no less than nine in number, perished. China pigs have been esteemed a luxury all over the East from the remotest periods that we read of. Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake...
Seite 246 - 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 122 - I bore his death as I thought pretty well at first, but afterwards it haunted and haunted me ; and though I did not cry or take it to heart as some do, and as I think he would have done if I had died, yet I missed him all day long, and knew not till then how much I had loved him.
Seite 149 - The thing took wing and now there was nothing to be seen but fires in every direction. Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district. The insurance offices one and all shut up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world.
Seite 150 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth! Wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation. From these sins he is happily snatched away — Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care.
Seite 146 - I take to be the elder brother) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swineherd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast...
Seite 41 - When I think of this man, — his fiery glow of heart, his swell of feeling, — how magnificent, how ideal he was; how great at the midnight hour; and when I compare with him the companions with whom I have associated since, I grudge the saving of a few idle ducats, and think that I am fallen into the society of lenders and little men.
Seite 149 - The judge, 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 be on fire.