In the Footprints of Charles LambC. Scribner's sons, 1890 - 193 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
12mo Collation 8vo Collation Adventures of Ulysses aged Alfred Ainger Athenæum Barry Cornwall calf Charles and Mary Charles Lamb Christ's Hospital Colebrook cottage Covent Garden Crabb Crown Office Row delightful East India House edition Edmonton Edward Moxon Enfield English Dramatic Poets Engravings Essays of Elia friends Frontispiece Genius gilt Godwin grave Hazlitt Herbert Railton Holborn Inner Temple Johnson Sale Lamb wrote Lamb's Leicester's School Leigh Hunt Letters Literary lived London Magazine look Mary Lamb Monthly Mag morocco never Note Numerous references original boards play Poems Poetry for Children Portrait Preface Price Prince Dorus Printed Prose published references to Lamb Review Robert Southey rooms Rosamund Gray S. T. COLERIDGE Scribner & Welford Series Shakespeare sister Sonnets Sotheby's Southampton Buildings Specimens of English Tale of Rosamund Tales from Shakespeare Thomas tion uncut unnumbered volume walk walls William Wordsworth write York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 7 - Your sun and moon and skies and hills and lakes affect me no more, or scarcely come to me in more venerable characters, than as a gilded room with tapestry and tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects.
Página 64 - In the next edition of the Anthology (which Phoebus avert, and those nine other wandering maids also !) please to blot out "gentle-hearted," and substitute " drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering," or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
Página 2 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 35 - The child, by her cries, quickly brought up the landlord of the house, but too late. The dreadful scene presented to him the mother lifeless, pierced to the heart, on a chair, her daughter yet wildly standing over her with the fatal knife, and the old man, her father, weeping by her side, himself bleeding at the forehead from the effects of a severe blow he had received from one of the forks she had been madly hurling about the room.
Página 2 - The sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye: And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time.
Página 132 - I thank God I have not those strait ligaments or narrow obligations to the world, as to dote on life, or be convulsed and tremble at the name of death. Not that I am insensible of the dread and horror thereof, or by raking into the bowels of the deceased, continual sight of anatomies, skeletons, or cadaverous...
Página 55 - In my next best are shelves containing a small but well-chosen library. My best room commands a court, in which there are trees and a pump, the water of which is excellent cold with brandy, and not very insipid without.
Página 80 - We are in the individual spot I like best in all this great city. The theatres, with all their noises.
Página 59 - I am living in a continuous feast. Coleridge has been with me now for nigh three weeks, and the more I see of him in the quotidian undress and relaxation of his mind, the more cause I see to love him, and believe him a very good man, and all those foolish impressions to the contrary fly off like morning slumbers.
Página 101 - River (rather elderly by this time) runs (if a moderate walking pace may be so termed) close to the foot of the house ; and behind is a spacious garden with vines, (I assure you,) pears, strawberries, parsnips, leeks, carrots, cabbages, to delight the heart of old Alcinous.