... receding, and still receding till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : "We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all.... Charles Lamb - Página 118por Alfred Ainger - 1883 - 186 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 440 páginas
...all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams" ; — and, immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated...in my bachelor armchair, where I had fallen asleep. Children in the Wood : an ancient ballad relating the fate of two orphan children who, by order of... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 páginas
...speech: "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....asleep with the faithful Bridget unchanged by my side. A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST-PIG (From the " Essays of Elia ") MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - 384 páginas
..." 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....Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name"—and immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated in my bachelor armchair, where I had... | |
| 1905 - 474 páginas
...all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing ; less than nothing, and dreams ; " — and, immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated...in my bachelor armchair, where I had fallen asleep. CHARLES LAMB. conception : the formation in the mind of an image or idea. — traditionary: heard of... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 páginas
...'We are 235 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 240 have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1906 - 276 páginas
...were but dream-children who might have been, but never were. ' We are nothing," they say to him ; ' less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and we must wait upon the tedious shore of Lethe, millions of ages, before we have existence and a name.... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 378 páginas
...without speech— strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : — We are not of Alice, not of thee, nor are we children at all. The children...immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated in my arm-chair — where I had fallen asleep, with the faithful Bridget unchanged by my side." Lamb was... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 páginas
...speech— strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : — We are not of Alice, not • V 298 of thee, nor are we children at all. The children...immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated in my arm-chair — where I had fallen asleep, with the faithful Bridget unchanged by my side." Lamb was... | |
| William Henry Crawshaw - 1907 - 542 páginas
..." 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....millions of ages before we have existence, and a name." Perhaps the finest of his essays is the famous " Dissertation upon Roast Pig." It is filled with all... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1907 - 264 páginas
..." 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....been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe 9 millions of ages before we have existence, and a name" — and immediately awaking, I found myself... | |
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