Letters of Charles Lamb: With Some Account of the Writer, His Friends and Correspondents, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1886 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 51
Page 5
... Sunday with work - day contemplations . This is Sunday : and the head - ache I have is part late hours at work the two preceding nights , and part later hours over a 1 The " Evening Walk ” and “ Descriptive Sketches among the Alps ...
... Sunday with work - day contemplations . This is Sunday : and the head - ache I have is part late hours at work the two preceding nights , and part later hours over a 1 The " Evening Walk ” and “ Descriptive Sketches among the Alps ...
Page 25
... Sunday I mean your maid , foolish Mary ; she wants a very little brains only to be an which had been overlooked by the most expert . As early as 1804 , Matilda Betham published " A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Women ...
... Sunday I mean your maid , foolish Mary ; she wants a very little brains only to be an which had been overlooked by the most expert . As early as 1804 , Matilda Betham published " A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Women ...
Page 29
... Sunday 31st August , 1817 , not Wednes- day , 2nd Feb. , 1818 , as it will be perhaps when you read this for the first time . There is the difficulty of writing from one end of the globe ( hemispheres I call ' em ) to an- other ! Why ...
... Sunday 31st August , 1817 , not Wednes- day , 2nd Feb. , 1818 , as it will be perhaps when you read this for the first time . There is the difficulty of writing from one end of the globe ( hemispheres I call ' em ) to an- other ! Why ...
Page 40
... Sunday or two since ; and he was well and in good spirits . I mean to hear some of the course ; but lectures are not much to my taste , whatever the lecturer may be . If read , they are dismal flat , and you can't think why you are ...
... Sunday or two since ; and he was well and in good spirits . I mean to hear some of the course ; but lectures are not much to my taste , whatever the lecturer may be . If read , they are dismal flat , and you can't think why you are ...
Page 41
... Sunday , [ " Letters , " & c . , of Coleridge , ed . 1864 , p . 118 . when A. Goss was dining with the Lambs , Pitman was expected to come in later , and Miss Lamb asked who he was . Her brother said that he was a clerk in the India ...
... Sunday , [ " Letters , " & c . , of Coleridge , ed . 1864 , p . 118 . when A. Goss was dining with the Lambs , Pitman was expected to come in later , and Miss Lamb asked who he was . Her brother said that he was a clerk in the India ...
Other editions - View all
Letters of Charles Lamb, Vol. 2 of 2: With Some Account of the Writer, His ... Charles Lamb No preview available - 2016 |
LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB Charles 1775-1834 Lamb,William Carew 1834-1913 Hazlitt No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance admirable album Allsop Athenæum Barron Field BERNARD BARTON Betham called Cary Charles Lamb Colebrooke Coleridge copy Covent Garden Dalston Dear death Dyer Edited Edmonton Elia Emma Enfield English Essays Essays of Elia feel following letter Forster Gilman give Godwin hand Hazlitt hear Highgate History Hone hope India House Islington John kind kindest lady Lamb's late Leigh Hunt letter to Barton live London Magazine Mary Mary Lamb Matilda Betham Miss Isola Miss Lamb Moxon never night Novello paper pleasant pleasure poem poet poetry poor Portraits Pray present printed Procter Prose Quaker remember revised seems sent sister sonnet Southey spirits Street Sunday Talfourd tell thanks things Thomas thought tion Trans Translated truly verses Vincent Novello vols volume week William Hazlitt wish words Wordsworth write written
Popular passages
Page 20 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640, 2 Maps and upwards of 400 Woodcuts.
Page 18 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Page 8 - GIL BLAS, The Adventures of. Translated from the French of Lesage by Smollett. With 24 Engravings on Steel, after Smirke, and 10 Etchings by George Cruikshank. 6s. GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS
Page 7 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.
Page 1 - Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
Page 438 - Twas but in a sort I blamed thee: None e'er prosper'd who defamed thee; Irony all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplex'd lovers use, At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of Dearest Miss...
Page 10 - Personal Narrative of his Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America during the years 17991804. Translated by T. Ross. 3 vols. 5*. each. Views of Nature. Translated by EC Ott£ and HG Bohn. 5*HUMPHREYS
Page 10 - HOLBEIN'S Dance of Death and Bible Cuts. Upwards of 150 Subjects, engraved in facsimile, with Introduction and Descriptions by Francis Douce and Dr. Thomas Frognall Dibden. 5*. HOMER'S Iliad. Translated into English Prose by TA Buckley, BA $s. Odyssey. Hymns, Epigrams, and Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Translated into English Prose by TA Buckley, BA 5*.