The Works of Charles Lamb ...A. C. Armstrong and son, 1881 |
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... lady , with a smile , confessed the soundness of my logic ; and to her approbation of my arguments on her favorite topic that evening , I have always fancied myself indebted for the legacy of a curious . cribbage - board , made of the ...
... lady , with a smile , confessed the soundness of my logic ; and to her approbation of my arguments on her favorite topic that evening , I have always fancied myself indebted for the legacy of a curious . cribbage - board , made of the ...
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... lady was accustomed to defend her favorite pastime . No inducement could ever prevail upon her to play at any game , where chance entered into the compo- sition , for nothing . Chance , she would argue , — and here again , admire the ...
... lady was accustomed to defend her favorite pastime . No inducement could ever prevail upon her to play at any game , where chance entered into the compo- sition , for nothing . Chance , she would argue , — and here again , admire the ...
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... lady's judgment in these matters , I think I have experienced some moments in my life , when playing at cards for nothing has even been agreeable . When I ain in sickness , or not in the best spirits , I sometimes call for the cards ...
... lady's judgment in these matters , I think I have experienced some moments in my life , when playing at cards for nothing has even been agreeable . When I ain in sickness , or not in the best spirits , I sometimes call for the cards ...
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... Lady of the Manor , of which , with the exception of some scenery , very faint traces are left in my memory . It was followed by a pantomine , called Lun's Ghost - a satiric touch , I apprehend , upon Rich , not long since dead but to ...
... Lady of the Manor , of which , with the exception of some scenery , very faint traces are left in my memory . It was followed by a pantomine , called Lun's Ghost - a satiric touch , I apprehend , upon Rich , not long since dead but to ...
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... lady had always shown herself above that littleness . When he ven- tured on the following day , finding her a little better humored , to expostulate with her on her coldness of yesterday , she confessed , with her usual frankness , that ...
... lady had always shown herself above that littleness . When he ven- tured on the following day , finding her a little better humored , to expostulate with her on her coldness of yesterday , she confessed , with her usual frankness , that ...
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Página 379 - 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.
Página 150 - Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside. My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Página 175 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing ; less than nothing ; and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
Página 43 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 204 - ... surrendering himself up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh next it, and was cramming it down his throat in his beastly fashion, when his sire entered amid the smoking rafters, armed with...
Página 205 - His father might lay on, but he could not beat him from his pig, till he had fairly made an end of it, when, becoming a little more sensible of his situation, something like the following dialogue ensued.
Página 381 - 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.
Página 405 - ... for four or five weeks longer than you should have done to pacify your conscience for the mighty sum of fifteen — or sixteen shillings, was it ? — a great affair we thought it then — which you had lavished on the old folio ? Now you can afford to buy any book that pleases you, but I do not see that you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now.
Página 56 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candlelight and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself- — do these things go out with life...
Página 60 - ... game and lose another ; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a card-table, but are indifferent whether they play or no; and will desire an adversary who has slipped a wrong card to take it up and play another.