...sentence should make sense even if the information in the parentheses were to be deleted. For God's sake don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print. (I never was more serious.) Charles Lamb My old grannum (rest her soul) was wont to say, there were...

...restrained humanity, such as he strove to perfect, would be misunderstood into limpness or unrealism. "For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't...gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited, the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings. My sentiment is...

...restrained humanity, such as he strove to perfect, would be misunderstood into limpness or unrealism. "For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't...gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited, the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings. My sentiment is...

...gentle-hearted Charles] Lamb wrote to Coleridge on 6 Aug. 1800, after receiving The Annual Anthology: 'For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make...or do it in better verses. It did well enough five (sic) years ago when I came to see you, and was moral coxcomb enough at the time you wrote the lines,...

...the difference. But we are reminded of his earnest expostulation with Coleridge, " For God's sake (1 never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentlehearted in print. * * My sentiment is long since vanished. I hope my virtues have done sucking." We are not compe1838.]...

...with reason. In one of his letters to the author of the " Rhyme," he says concerning this subject : "Don't make me ridiculous any more ; by terming me gentle-hearted in print. The ! meaning of gentle is equivocal at best, and al, most, always means poor-spirited; the very quali;...