 I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time solitude, and the dark, were my hell. The sufferings I endured in this nature would justify the expression. I never laid my head on my pillow, I suppose, from the fourth to the seventh or eighth...  Life, Letters, and Writings - Page 235by Charles Lamb - 1882Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more Beriouely — That detestable picture! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...eighth year of my life — so far as memory serves in tilings so long ago —without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...pillow, I suppose, from the fourth to the seventh year of my life — so far as memory serves in things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pages
...out, and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part,... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...out, and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...out, and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The nighttime...things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part,... | |
 | 1840 - 698 pages
...out, and which was destined to try my childish nerves most seriously — That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors ; the night-time,...never laid my head on my pillow, I suppose from the fourtli to the seventh or eighth year of my life, so far as my memory serves in things so long ago,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pages
...which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture ! ' I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time,...things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time,...nature would justify the expression. I never laid my nHl on rr I on my pillow, I suppose, from the fourth to the seventh or eighth year of my life — so... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time, solitude, and the dark, were^ny hell. The sufferings I endured in this nature would justify the expression. I never laid my... | |
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