 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...the old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at — or...impertinent friskings: — I had more pleasure in these busy idle diversions than in all the., sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, .and such like... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...the old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at— or in...great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings — V more pleasure in these busy idle diversions... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the...state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings." It is hard to say whether the poet's eye or the painter's is more surely exhibited here. The " solitary... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth—or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and- there...in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...and there a great snuy pike haagk¿ nUdway Uowu the water in silent state, aé if it moAcd i; . • their impertinent friskings, — I had more pleasure in these ; busy-idle diversions than~ in ail fhç sweet flavours of peaches. nectarines, granges, and such jie common lr¿i¿ -ef chii<tv z.... | |
 | Golden gift - 1868 - 168 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth ; or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...these busy-idle diversions, than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-like common baits of 'children. Here John slyly... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fishpond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the wator in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent Makings, — I had more pleasure in these... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1871 - 484 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth, — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...and such-like common baits of .children. Here John slyly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes, which, not unobserved by Alice, he had meditated... | |
 | 1872 - 742 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth, or in watching the dace that darted too and fro in the fishpond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...in these busy-idle Diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-like common baits of children." And this delight... | |
 | 1872 - 882 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth, or in watching the dace that darted too and fro in the fishpond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...friskings — I had more pleasure in these busy-idle inversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-like common baits... | |
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... look at — -or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells 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... 
