 I should belie my own conscience, if I said less, than that I think WH to be, in his natural and healthy state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy, which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4371904Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...places where no clouding paesi6nf5ntervenes— T should belie my own conscience, 'if I said' le^s, than that I think WH to be, in his natural and' healthy...state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. ''So far from being ashamed of that intimacy, which was betwiit us, it is my boast that I was able... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pages
...long, and relished so deeply, or by his books, in those places where no clouding passion intervenes, I should belie my own conscience if I said less than that I think him to be, in his natural and healthy state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing ; and I... | |
 | 1869 - 774 pages
...Lamb, in his manly letter of expostulation to Southey, wrote of Hazlitt, are worthy of repetition:—"! should belie my own conscience if I said less than...state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able for... | |
 | 1869 - 786 pages
...of expostulation to Southey, wrote of Hazlitt, are worthy of repetition: — "I should belie my o\vn conscience if I said less than that I think WH to...state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able for... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1871 - 532 pages
...testimony from Charles Lamb ; and no man knew him better than did the gentle and genial essayist : — " I should belie my own conscience if I said less than...state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able for... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 pages
...long, and relished so deeply; or by his books, in those places where no clouding passion intervenes — I should belie my own conscience, if I said less,...state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy, which was betwixt us. it is my boast that I \\a.^ obte.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1877 - 522 pages
...testimony from Charles Lamb ; and no man knew him better than did the gentle and genial essayist : — " I should belie my own conscience if I said less than...state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able for... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 454 pages
...and relished so deeply ; or by his books, in those places where no clouding passion intervenes — I should belie my own conscience, if I said less,...state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. S far from being ashamed of that intimacy, whic' was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able fo... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...and relished so deeply ; or by his books, in those places where no clouding passion intervenes — E E) W. II. to be, in his natural and healthy state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1881 - 866 pages
...and relished so deeply ; or by his books, in those places where no clouding passion intervenes — I should belie my own conscience, if I said less,...state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy, which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able for... | |
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