Selected Essays of Charles LambSilver, Burdett, 1901 - 108 стор. |
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... Garden . In August , 1823 , the same year that the first volume of the " Essays of Elia " appeared , he and Mary moved into a cottage in what was known as Colebrook Row , Islington , making this their home for four years . Lamb had now ...
... Garden . In August , 1823 , the same year that the first volume of the " Essays of Elia " appeared , he and Mary moved into a cottage in what was known as Colebrook Row , Islington , making this their home for four years . Lamb had now ...
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... Garden , London . Elia Essays , first series published by Removes to Cole- Messrs . Taylor and Hessey . Retires from East India House on a pension of £ 400 . Contributes articles to Hone's Every - day Book . Contributes articles to ...
... Garden , London . Elia Essays , first series published by Removes to Cole- Messrs . Taylor and Hessey . Retires from East India House on a pension of £ 400 . Contributes articles to Hone's Every - day Book . Contributes articles to ...
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... garden smells 15 around me — or basking in the orangery , till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth - or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish - pond ...
... garden smells 15 around me — or basking in the orangery , till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth - or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish - pond ...
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... boat , moored on the hither side of this calm garden river , with a dainty mincing foot , which in a right angle of incidence ( as angles go in our world ) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead a 45 OLD CHINA.
... boat , moored on the hither side of this calm garden river , with a dainty mincing foot , which in a right angle of incidence ( as angles go in our world ) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead a 45 OLD CHINA.
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... and all because of that folio Beau- mont and Fletcher , which you dragged home late at night 35 from Barker's , in Covent Garden ? Do you remember how - we eyed it for weeks before we could make 46 ESSAYS OF CHARLES LAMB .
... and all because of that folio Beau- mont and Fletcher , which you dragged home late at night 35 from Barker's , in Covent Garden ? Do you remember how - we eyed it for weeks before we could make 46 ESSAYS OF CHARLES LAMB .
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Сторінка 43 - I bore his death as I thought pretty well at first, but afterwards it haunted and haunted me; and though I did not cry or take it to heart as some do, and as I think he would have done if I had died, yet I missed him all day long, and knew not till then how much I had loved him.
Сторінка 52 - ... pigs, no less than nine in number, perished. China pigs have been esteemed a luxury all over the East, . from the remotest periods that we read of. Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake...
Сторінка 56 - ... house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful and seemingly the most obvious, arts make their way among mankind. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed that if a worthy pretext for so dangerous an experiment as setting houses on fire (especially in these days) could be assigned...
Сторінка 55 - The insurance offices one and all shut up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. Thus this custom of firing houses continued...
Сторінка 41 - Those innocents would do her no harm;" and how frightened I used to be, though in those days I had my maid to sleep with me, because I was never half so good or religious as she, and yet I never saw the infants. Here John expanded all his eyebrows, and tried to look courageous. Then I told how good she was to all her grandchildren, having us to the...
Сторінка 42 - L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us ; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us, he would mount the most mettlesome horse he could get, when but an imp no bigger than themselves, and make it carry him half over the county in a morning, and join the hunters when there were any out...
Сторінка 44 - I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was; and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding, till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech: " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams....
Сторінка 55 - Evidence was given, the obnoxious food itself produced in court, and verdict about to be pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig, of which the culprits stood accused, might be handed into the box. He handled it, and they all handled it ; and burning their...
Сторінка 53 - Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think. He next stooped down to feel the pig, if there were any signs of life in it. He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth.
Сторінка 52 - Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son, Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as younkers of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which, kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes.