The prose works of Charles Lamb, المجلد 3E. Moxon, 1836 |
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... question . The nearest approach to it , we are told , is , when the actor appears wholly unconscious of the presence of spectators . In tragedy - in all which is to affect the feelings - this undivided attention to his stage business ...
... question . The nearest approach to it , we are told , is , when the actor appears wholly unconscious of the presence of spectators . In tragedy - in all which is to affect the feelings - this undivided attention to his stage business ...
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... worth of the work in question , and launching out into a dissertation on its comparative merits with those of certain publications of a similar stamp , its rivals ! his enchanted customers fairly hanging ELLISTONIANA.
... worth of the work in question , and launching out into a dissertation on its comparative merits with those of certain publications of a similar stamp , its rivals ! his enchanted customers fairly hanging ELLISTONIANA.
الصفحة 61
... question had been destroyed long since ; " to whose opinion , delivered with all modesty , our hero was obliging enough to concede thus much , that " the figure was indeed a little damaged . " This was the only opposition he met with ...
... question had been destroyed long since ; " to whose opinion , delivered with all modesty , our hero was obliging enough to concede thus much , that " the figure was indeed a little damaged . " This was the only opposition he met with ...
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... question . Let the same person see a lion , an elephant , a mountain , for the first time in his life , and he shall perhaps feel himself a little mortified . The things do not fill up that space , which the idea of them THE OLD MARGATE ...
... question . Let the same person see a lion , an elephant , a mountain , for the first time in his life , and he shall perhaps feel himself a little mortified . The things do not fill up that space , which the idea of them THE OLD MARGATE ...
الصفحة 71
... ging this witness , refreshing that solicitor . The cause was to come on yesterday . He is absolutely as indifferent to the decision , as if it were a question to be tried at Pekin . Peradventure from some whispering THE CONVALESCENT . 71.
... ging this witness , refreshing that solicitor . The cause was to come on yesterday . He is absolutely as indifferent to the decision , as if it were a question to be tried at Pekin . Peradventure from some whispering THE CONVALESCENT . 71.
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الصفحة 141 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...
الصفحة 44 - To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.
الصفحة 223 - ... pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours — and the delicious Thank God, we are safe, which always followed when the topmost stair, conquered, let in the first light of the whole cheerful theatre down beneath us — I know not the fathom line that ever touched a descent so deep as I would be willing to bury more wealth in than Croesus had, or the great Jew R is supposed to have, to purchase...
الصفحة 149 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease : 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed ; A chamber, deaf to noise, and blind to light; A rosy garland, and a weary head.
الصفحة vi - I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.
الصفحة 174 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
الصفحة 177 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
الصفحة 148 - By no encroachment wrong'd, nor time forgot ; Nor blamed for blood, nor shamed for sinful deed. And that you know, I envy you no lot Of highest wish, I wish you so much bliss, Hundreds of years you STELLA'S feet may kiss.
الصفحة 214 - Here is a young and courtly Mandarin, handing tea to a lady from a salver, two miles off. See how distance seems to set off respect ! And here the same lady, or another, (for likeness is identity on teacups,) is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the hither side of this calm garden river, with a dainty mincing foot, which in a right angle of incidence (as angles go in our world) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead a furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream...
الصفحة 215 - I wish the good old times would come again," she said, " when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state" — so she was pleased to ramble on, — " in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph. When we coveted a cheap luxury...