 Nature but a week or two before. Poor Col., but two days before he died he wrote to a bookseller, proposing an epic poem on the " Wanderings of Cain," in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism,...  The North American Review - Page 423edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 666 pages
...of Cain," in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pages
...of Cain," in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of time has... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...of Cain,' in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...of Cain,' in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 546 pages
...of Cain,' in twentyfour books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of...which the later ones have followed, " was rather a rifacimento ," as the author said, " than a new edition, the additions forming so large a portion of... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 576 pages
...of Cain,' in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...of Cain,' in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of...state of completion." — Talfourd's Life of Lamb, i. 174. lop any one subject, it was necessary that I should make myself master of some other, which... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...Cain,' in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises La criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 514 pages
...of Cain,' in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion." Nor was Mr. de Quincey, so like Coleridge in some subjective aspects of character, as well as in certain... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 454 pages
...of Cain," in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
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