 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1901 - 200 pages
...consistently shewed by his works, to the detriment of many a cuticle. "Nothing was more common," says Lamb, " than to see him make a headlong entry into the schoolroom...and with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out ' Ods my life, sirrah ' (his favourite adjuration) ' I have a great mind to whip you ' — then with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 pages
...passionate -wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, Sirrah," (his favourite adjuration) " I have a great mind to whip you," — then, with as sudden a retracting impulse,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 386 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, Sirrah," (his favourite adjuration) " I have a great mind to whip you," — then, with as sudden a retracting impulse,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 542 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...your wits at me ? " — Nothing was more common than to1 see him make a head-long entry into the school-room, from his inner recess, or library, and, with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 536 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child- (the maternal milk hardly...your wits at me ? " — Nothing was more common than to1 see him make a head-long entry into the school-room, from his inner recess, or library, and, with... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - English literature - 1904 - 344 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...out a lad, roar -out, " Od's my life, sirrah " (his favourite adjuration), " I have a great mind to whip you," — then, with as sudden a retracting impulse,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1904 - 460 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips) with a " Sirrah, do you 20 presume to set your wits at me ? " Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong entry... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1905 - 656 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, ' Od 's my life, Sirrah' (his favourite adjuration), 'I have a great mind to whip you,' — then, with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1905 - 352 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips) with a " Sirrah, do you 20 presume to set your wits at me ? " Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong entry... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1907 - 264 pages
...ton classical for representation. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, Sirrah" (his favourite adjuration), "I have a great mind to whip you," — then, with as sudden a retracting impulse,... | |
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JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips) with a " Sirrah, do you presume to set your wits at me? 
