Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].Moxon, 1858 - 251 Seiten |
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... my dearest children , some idea- alas , how poor ! how inadequate it must be - of that friend for whose sake you are , if possible , more dear to me . To you , my dearest Elizabeth , the Fairy Prattler of the Letters , and to you ...
... my dearest children , some idea- alas , how poor ! how inadequate it must be - of that friend for whose sake you are , if possible , more dear to me . To you , my dearest Elizabeth , the Fairy Prattler of the Letters , and to you ...
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... DEAR SIR , Jan. 28th , 1818 . Your friendly letter was first delivered to me at the lec- ture - room door on yesterday evening , ten minutes before the lecture , and my ... friend , as much as the voice of honour within us denounces the ...
... DEAR SIR , Jan. 28th , 1818 . Your friendly letter was first delivered to me at the lec- ture - room door on yesterday evening , ten minutes before the lecture , and my ... friend , as much as the voice of honour within us denounces the ...
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... MY DEAR SIR , Dec. 2nd , 1818 . I cannot express how kind I felt your letter . Would to Heaven I had had many with ... Friend were not without merit , but were abundantly anxious to acquit their judgments of any blindness to the very nu ...
... MY DEAR SIR , Dec. 2nd , 1818 . I cannot express how kind I felt your letter . Would to Heaven I had had many with ... Friend were not without merit , but were abundantly anxious to acquit their judgments of any blindness to the very nu ...
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... my much - loved friend had not generous usage . Far from me , however , be it to attribute blame ; I am rather inclined to ascribe this seeming want of generous feeling of sympathy , to an incompatibility of adaptation . How ex ...
... my much - loved friend had not generous usage . Far from me , however , be it to attribute blame ; I am rather inclined to ascribe this seeming want of generous feeling of sympathy , to an incompatibility of adaptation . How ex ...
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... my Literary Life , which , though addressed to a small and particular class , yet permits a more general application . To you , my dear young friend , I should say , temptations and preventives - the poisons and the antidotes — are ...
... my Literary Life , which , though addressed to a small and particular class , yet permits a more general application . To you , my dear young friend , I should say , temptations and preventives - the poisons and the antidotes — are ...
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admiration affection Allsop anxiety beautiful believe bless called cause character Charles Charles Cowden Clark Charles Lamb Christian circumstances common conversation DEAR FRIEND DEAREST FRIEND delightful desire doubt duty evil existence expressed faith fear feel genial genius Gillman give happiness heart Hesiod Highgate honour hope human impression individual intellect interest Jack-o'-lantern kind Kinder Scout labour Lamb least Lectures Leigh Hunt less letter live LONDON WALL Lord Mary Lamb means Micheldever mind moral nature never object once opinion pain persons Philosophy pleasure Poems poet possess present principles Pythagoras Ramsgate reason recollections regret religion respect RICHARD STEELE S. T. COLERIDGE seems selfish sense sincere Sir Francis Burdett society Socinians sorrow soul speak spirit sure sympathy thing thought tion Tom Clarkson true truth whilst whole wish woman words Wordsworth write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 59 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Seite 15 - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Seite 80 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Seite 80 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Seite 7 - But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
Seite 131 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Seite 151 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities; and all my love is towards individuals. For instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers; but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one. It is so with physicians. I will not speak of my own trade, soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Seite 224 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Seite 17 - Henceforth I shall know That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure ; No plot so narrow, be but Nature there, No waste so vacant, but may well employ Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart Awake to Love and Beauty...
Seite 149 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.