Final memorials of Charles Lamb, letters [ed.] with sketches of some of his companions by T.N. Talfourd, Том 21848 |
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... interest - Mr . Thomas Griffiths Wainwright . He was then a young man ; on the bright side of thirty ; with a sort of undress military air , and the conversation of a smart , lively , clever , heartless , voluptuous coxcomb . It was ...
... interest - Mr . Thomas Griffiths Wainwright . He was then a young man ; on the bright side of thirty ; with a sort of undress military air , and the conversation of a smart , lively , clever , heartless , voluptuous coxcomb . It was ...
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... consisted perhaps chiefly in morbid self- esteem , so excessive as to overwhelm all counter- vailing feelings , and to render all the interests of others , all duties , all sympathies , all 22 THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINWRIGHT .
... consisted perhaps chiefly in morbid self- esteem , so excessive as to overwhelm all counter- vailing feelings , and to render all the interests of others , all duties , all sympathies , all 22 THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINWRIGHT .
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... interest which the poet took in the success of Mr. Moxon , who was starting as a publisher . The following little note shows the state of his feelings at this time towards two distinguished persons . TO MR . MOXON . DEAR M. , ENFIELD ...
... interest which the poet took in the success of Mr. Moxon , who was starting as a publisher . The following little note shows the state of his feelings at this time towards two distinguished persons . TO MR . MOXON . DEAR M. , ENFIELD ...
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... interest in I insist upon it , and , " by him I will not name , " I won't touch a penny of it . That * Alluding to a little extravagance of Lamb's - scarcely worth recollecting - in emulation of the " Devil's Walk " of Southey and Co ...
... interest in I insist upon it , and , " by him I will not name , " I won't touch a penny of it . That * Alluding to a little extravagance of Lamb's - scarcely worth recollecting - in emulation of the " Devil's Walk " of Southey and Co ...
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... interest , to hand over to the clerk , whose wife she sometimes drinks tea with , for him to lay before the deacon , who exchanges the civility of the hat with him , to transmit to the minister , who shakes hands with him out of chapel ...
... interest , to hand over to the clerk , whose wife she sometimes drinks tea with , for him to lay before the deacon , who exchanges the civility of the hat with him , to transmit to the minister , who shakes hands with him out of chapel ...
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admiration artist asso beauty Charles CHARLES LAMB charm cherished chimes at midnight Christ's Hospital circle Coleridge conversation Dante DEAR death delightful dinner Dover Street Dyer earnest Edinburgh Review Edmonton EDWARD MOXON Elia Emma Enfield enjoy essays eyes fancy fear feel felt genius gentle George Dyer Godwin grace hand happy Hazlitt heard heart honour hope intellectual Janus kind labour lady Lamb's Leigh Hunt Linden House literary lived London look Lord Magazine Mary Lamb memory ment mind Miss Abercrombie Miss Lamb MISS WORDSWORTH moral MOXON nature never noble once pain passion Peter Bell pleasure poet poetry political poor Pray present reason regard scarcely seemed Shakspeare sister sometimes sonnet sorrow soul spirit Street struggle sweetness taste tell Thelwall things thought tion triumph Wainwright walk wisdom wish write written young youth
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Сторінка 197 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at Midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Сторінка 151 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Сторінка 192 - Heroically fashioned — to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! XLIII.
Сторінка 108 - Shakspeare ; to be tied down to an authentic face of Juliet ! to have Imogen's portrait ! to confine the illimitable ! I like you and Stothard (you best), but ' out upon this half-faced fellowship !' Sir, when I have read the book, I may trouble you, through Moxon, with some faint criticisms.
Сторінка 173 - ... friends : he avowed that he yielded to necessity ; and instead of avoiding the sight of that which he could no longer taste, he was seldom so happy as when he sat with friends at their wine, participating the sociality of the time, and renewing his own past enjoyment in that of his companions, without regret and without envy.
Сторінка 176 - she had written a great deal which he had never read," a voice gave expression to the general commiseration and surprise, by calling out " More pity for you !" They were confounded at his reading with more emphasis, perhaps, than discretion, Gay's epigrammatic lines on Sir Richard Blackstone...
Сторінка 134 - ... not a hopeful engagement, or a happy wedding, or a promotion of a friend's son, or a new intellectual triumph of any youth with whose name and history she was familiar, but became an event on which she expected and required congratulation as on a part of her own fortune. Although there was necessarily a preponderance in her society of the sentiment of popular progress, which once was cherished almost exclusively by the party to whom Lord Holland was united by sacred ties, no expression of triumph...
Сторінка 128 - They will remember the singular character which belonged to that circle, in which every talent and accomplish'ment, every art and science, had its place. They will remember how the last debate was discussed in one corner, and the last comedy of Scribe in another ; while Wilkie gazed with modest admiration on Reynolds...
Сторінка 175 - Frenchman. When he passed by Mrs. Hannah More with observing that " she had written a great deal which he had never read," a voice gave expression to the general commiseration and surprise, by calling out
Сторінка 131 - ... own share in the perils and glories of some famous battle-field ; to encourage the generous praise of friendship when the speaker and the subject reflected interest on each other; or win...