There was Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one... The Works of Charles Lamb - Страница 348по Charles Lamb - 1850Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 482 страници
...and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing,...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes a question with... | |
| 1836 - 540 страници
...and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing,...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with... | |
| 1836 - 492 страници
...and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing,...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 страници
...and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing,...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Home Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 страници
...and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing,...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Home Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 страници
...and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing,...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Horne Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1849 - 270 страници
...violent changes from the serious to the farcical — the sudden reliefs of the " heatoppressed brain," and heart weighed down by the sense of ever-impending...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words."... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 страници
...and sensible of men. He always made the hest pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever slammorcd out such fine, piquant, deep, eloiiucnt things in half a dozen half-sentences as ho does.... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 страници
...violent changes from the serious to the farcical — the sudden relicts of the " heatoppressed brain," and heart weighed down by the sense of ever-impending...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words."... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 576 страници
...farcical — the sudden reliefs of the " heatthe senou oppressed brain," and heart weighed down hy the sense of ' ever-impending sorrow. His whim, however,...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words."... | |
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