Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt, that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better... Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters - Page 65by Charles Lamb - 1867 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...Mrs. Barbauld's stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery ; and the shopman at Newbery's hardly deigned to reach them off an old exploded corner...turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...Mrs. Barbauld's stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery ; and the shopman at Newbery's hardly deigned to reach them off an old exploded corner...turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...all the old classics of the nursery; and the shopman at Newberry's hardly deigned to reach them oft' an old exploded corner of a shelf when Mary asked...turned with conceit of his own powers, when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like: instead of that... | |
| 1838 - 1012 pages
...child in the shape of knnwledyc, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own poweis when he has learnt, that a horse is an animal, and...tales, which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child. Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the... | |
| Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 546 pages
...knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers, when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than...tales, which made the child a man while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child." How full of the overflowings of a generous and... | |
| 1839 - 694 pages
...convey, it seems must come to a child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be filled with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt...like ; instead of that beautiful interest in wild talcs, which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child.... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...В.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. В.'s he weed pleased him. The burrs stuck to him — but...remonstrated with for not making more concessions to the he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child. Science has succeeded to poetry no less in the little... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must como to a child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty...tales, which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child." And there follows Lamb's argнmentum ad hominem... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powere but withoul knowledge, genius, thought, truth, or...baeis.' " So much for the materials ; now for the man he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child." And there follows Lamb's argumentum ad hominem... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 576 pages
...Mrs. Barbauld's stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery ; and the shopman at Newbery's hardly deigned to reach them off an old exploded corner...turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that... | |
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