Lamb's Essays: A Biographical StudyD. Lothrop Company, 1891 - 281 pages |
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LAMBS ESSAYS A BIOGRAPHICAL ST Charles 1775-1834 Lamb,Elizabeth Deering 1865- Ed Hanscom No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 31 - Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness. The mind, that ocean, where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Page 31 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Page 101 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 130 - But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation...
Page 156 - ... but of their great-grandmother Field most especially ; and how he used to carry me upon his back when I was a lamefooted boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain ; — and how in after life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him when he was impatient, and in pain...
Page 262 - Nature ! a' thy shews an' forms To feeling, pensive hearts hae charms ! Whether the summer kindly warms Wi' life an' light, Or winter howls, in gusty storms, The lang dark night.
Page 224 - ... for four or five weeks longer than you should have done, to pacify your conscience for the mighty sum of fifteen — or sixteen shillings was it? — a great affair we thought it then — which you had lavished on the old folio? Now you can afford to buy any book that pleases you, but I do not see that you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now.
Page 234 - ... to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay. To expect a Steele or a Farquhar, and find Adam Smith. To view a well-arranged assortment of block-headed Encyclopaedias (Anglicanas or Metropolitanas) set out in an array of russia or morocco, when a tithe of that good leather would comfortably re-clothe my shivering folios — would renovate Paracelsus himself, and enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world.
Page 29 - What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that Time which they measured, and to take their revelations of its flight immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain of light...
Page 228 - Now we have no reckoning at all at the end of the old year — no flattering promises about the new year doing better for us.