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... VERSE : - CHILDHOOD THE GRANDAME THE SABBATH BELLS FANCY EMPLOYED ON DIVINE SUBJECTS . COMPOSED AT MIDNIGHT JOHN WOODVIL , A TRAGEDY THE WITCH , A DRAMATIC SKETCH OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ALBUM VERSES , WITH A FEW OTHERS . 605 605 605 ...
... VERSE : - CHILDHOOD THE GRANDAME THE SABBATH BELLS FANCY EMPLOYED ON DIVINE SUBJECTS . COMPOSED AT MIDNIGHT JOHN WOODVIL , A TRAGEDY THE WITCH , A DRAMATIC SKETCH OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ALBUM VERSES , WITH A FEW OTHERS . 605 605 605 ...
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... VERSES , & c.— Page 629 629 629 629 630 . 630 630 TO J. S. KNOWLES , ESQ . , ON HIS TRAGEDY OF VIRGINIUS 630 TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS , PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAME OF BARRY CORNWALL 631 TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EVERY - DAY BOOK " 631 TO T ...
... VERSES , & c.— Page 629 629 629 629 630 . 630 630 TO J. S. KNOWLES , ESQ . , ON HIS TRAGEDY OF VIRGINIUS 630 TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS , PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAME OF BARRY CORNWALL 631 TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EVERY - DAY BOOK " 631 TO T ...
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... Verses to grace the festivities of a benefit was a woman of appearance so matronly and commanding ,. CHAPTER I. [ 1775 to 1796. ] LAMB'S PARENTAGE , SCHOOL - DAYS , AND YOUTH , TO THE RIDGE . CHARLES LAMB was born on 10th February , 1775 ...
... Verses to grace the festivities of a benefit was a woman of appearance so matronly and commanding ,. CHAPTER I. [ 1775 to 1796. ] LAMB'S PARENTAGE , SCHOOL - DAYS , AND YOUTH , TO THE RIDGE . CHARLES LAMB was born on 10th February , 1775 ...
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... verse- produced slowly , at long intervals , and with self - distrust which the encouragements of Coleridge could not ... verses and with great facility , -a facility fatal to excellence ; but his mind was chiefly remarkable for the fine ...
... verse- produced slowly , at long intervals , and with self - distrust which the encouragements of Coleridge could not ... verses and with great facility , -a facility fatal to excellence ; but his mind was chiefly remarkable for the fine ...
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... verses inter- espe - spersed in it ; it would sweeten a man's temper time to read it ; it would Christianise every discordant angry passion ; pray make yourself acquainted with it . Have you made it up with Southey yet ? Surely one of ...
... verses inter- espe - spersed in it ; it would sweeten a man's temper time to read it ; it would Christianise every discordant angry passion ; pray make yourself acquainted with it . Have you made it up with Southey yet ? Surely one of ...
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admiration beauty BERNARD BARTON blank verse bless character CHARLES LAMB Christ's Hospital Coleridge David Hartley dead Dear death delightful dream Dyer Elia Enfield Essays Essays of Elia excuse expression eyes fancy fear feel following letter genius gentle gentleman George Dyer give Godwin gone grace hand hath Hazlitt head hear heard heart honour hope humour Inner Temple Islington Joan of Arc kind lady Lamb's lines live Lloyd London look Mary Mary Lamb mind morning Moxon nature never night person play pleasant pleasure poem poet poetry poor Pray present pretty Quaker remember scarce seems Shakspeare sister Skiddaw sonnet soul Southey spirit Stowey sweet talk tell thank thee things thou thought tion verses Vincent Bourne volume walk week wish words Wordsworth write written young
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Page 457 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ;' and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 390 - ... a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I - I myself, and not another - would eat her nice cake - and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present...
Page 598 - While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination quite, And their hasty wrath let fall, To appease their frantic gall, On the darling thing whatever, Whence they feel it death to sever, Though it be, as they, perforce, Guiltless of the sad divorce. For I must (nor let it grieve thee, Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee.
Page 67 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Page 414 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, " That is Mr ." A rap, between familiarity and respect, that demands, and at the same time seems to despair of entertainment. He entereth smiling and embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner-time, when the table is full.
Page 469 - It strengthened and knit our compact closer. We could never have been what we have been to each other if we had always had the sufficiency which you now complain of. The resisting power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away.
Page 414 - With half the familiarity, he might pass for a casual dependant ; with more boldness, he would be in no danger of being taken for what he is. He is too humble for a friend ; yet taketh on him more state than befits a client. He is a worse guest than a country tenant, inasmuch as he bringeth up no rent ; yet 'tis odds, from his garb and demeanour, that your guests take him for one.
Page 383 - JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died — of my world at least. His old clients look for him among the pens ; and missing him, reproach the altered feast of St. Bartholomew, and the glory of Smithfield departed for ever.
Page 326 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Page 65 - Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt, that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like ; instead of that beautiful interest in wild tales, which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child.