 Narrative teases me. I have little concern in the progress of events. She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations of fortune in fiction — and...  The Essays of Elia - Seite 147von Charles Lamb - 1901 - 294 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1835 - 430 Seiten
...She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations...a native disrelish of any thing that sounds odd or hizarre. Nothing goes down with her that is quaint, irregular, or out of the road of common sympathy.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 Seiten
...She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations...please me most. My cousin has a native disrelish of anything that sounds odd or bizarre. Nothing goes down with her, that is quaint, irregular, or out... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 Seiten
...She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations...please me most. My cousin has a native disrelish of anything that sounds odd or bizarre. Nothing goes down with her that is quaint, irregular, or out of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 Seiten
...She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations...interest, or operate but dully upon me. Out-of-the-way humors and opinions — heads with some diverting twist in them — the oddities of authorship please... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 Seiten
...almost in real life — have ceased to interest, or operate but dully upon me. Out-of-the-way humors and opinions — heads with some diverting twist in...please me most. My cousin has a native disrelish of anything that sounds odd or bizarre. Nothing goes down with her, that is quaint, irregular, or out... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations...interest, or operate but dully upon me. Out-of-the-way humors and opinions — heads with some diverting twist in them — the oddities of authorship please... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 Seiten
...She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations...please me most. My cousin has a native disrelish of anything that sounds odd or bizarre. Nothing goes down with her that is quaint, irregular, or out of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 Seiten
...She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and^ plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations...please me most. My cousin has a native disrelish of anything .that sounds odd or bizarre. Nothing goes down with her that is quaint, irregular, or out... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 386 Seiten
...indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluetuations of fortune in fiction — and almost in real life...interest, or operate but dully upon me. Out-of-the-way humors and opinions — heads with some diverting twist in them — the oddities of authorship please... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 Seiten
...She must have a story — well, ill, or indifferently told — so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations...interest, or operate but dully upon me. Out-of-the-way humors and opinions — heads with some diverting twist in them — the oddities of authorship please... | |
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