| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 482 páginas
...writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters, while... | |
| 1836 - 540 páginas
...writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears,...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vien of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters, while... | |
| 1862 - 656 páginas
...the fine humor of Lamb. They both talked better than they wrote. The jests of Lamb, Hazlitt said, " scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words." The conversation of Coleridge was rapt, oracular, and transcendental ; it was not talk, it was not... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1848 - 252 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-a-dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1848 - 342 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-a-dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1849 - 270 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the in11* tense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1850 - 392 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-adozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 páginas
...pen of John Buncle to consecrate a petit souvenir to their memory! There was Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vein of home-felt truth! What choice venom ! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters, while... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 576 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 684 páginas
...those humours of tragical fancy with which he [Lamb] refreshed his ultra -humanity." Hazlitt said: " His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words." Thus talking, matter-of-fact people knew not what to make of him. And thus writing (for he wrote as... | |
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