 I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant...  The essays of Elia. A new ed - Page 112by Charles Lamb - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...other women. But let her ( stand upon her female character as upon a foundation; and let the attentions incident to individual preference be so many pretty...with sweet Susan Winstanley — to reverence her sex. TO DAFFODILS. Robert Herrick. FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pages
...CHARLES LAMB CHARLES LAMB. CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD — THE TEMPLE AND CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. (1775—1789.) * I WAS born and passed the first seven years of my...in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, ita fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years what was this king of rivers... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1897 - 176 pages
...and one of the most delightful of the ' Essays of Elia ' is filled with old memories of that place: I was born, and passed the first seven years of my...church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river—I had almost said—for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...Temple. In his essay on The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple, he thus describes his earliest home : " I was born and passed the first seven years of my...the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 548 pages
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation ; and let the attentions incident to individual preference be so many pretty...ornaments — as many and as fanciful as you please — to the main structure. Let her first lesson be, with sweet Susan Winstanley, to reverence her sex. —... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 pages
...and one of the most delightful of the ' Essays of Elia ' is filled with old memories of that place : I was born, and passed the first seven years of my...its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river— I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 468 pages
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation; and let the attentions, incident to individual preference, be so many pretty...and ornaments — as many, and as fanciful, as you please—.to that main structure. Let her first lesson be — with sweet Susan Winstanley — to reverence... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1901 - 330 pages
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation ; and let the attentions, incident to individual preference, be so many pretty...with sweet Susan Winstanley — to reverence her sex. r THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 pages
...Time and Tide tarry for no man ' ; that opposite Middle Temple Hall, ' Discite justitiam moniti.' ' I was born, and passed the first seven years of my...church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pages
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation; and let the attentions, incident to individual preference, be so many pretty...with sweet Susan Winstanley — to reverence her sex. Complete. From the London Magazine, November, 1822. POPULAR FALLACIES THAT ENOUGH Is AS GOOD AS A FEAST... | |
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