| Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 страници
...may believe, of the entertainment. Golden lads and lussos most. As chimney-sweepers, come to dust— James White is extinct, and with him these suppers...altered feast of St. Bartholomew, and the glory of Smithfiold departed for ever. A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS, IN THE METROPOLIS. rpHE all-sweeping... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1891 - 300 страници
...thoughts." The intimacies founded in boyhood were interrupted only by death. Of White, Lamb wrote, " He carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died — of my world at least." Again, after many years, he wrote of Coleridge, " He was my fifty-years-old friend without a dissention.... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 страници
...may believe, of the entertainment. Golden lads and lasses must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers...Bartholomew, and the glory of Smithfield departed for ever. A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN THE METROPOLIS. THE all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1892 - 348 страници
...may believe, of the entertainment. Golden lads and lasses must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him luilf the fun of the world when he died — of my world at least. His old clients look for him turning... | |
| Abby Sage Richardson - 1892 - 460 страници
...are in Lamb's wittiest vein. I quote for you from his Essays of Elia the greater part of his amusing dissertation upon Roast Pig : — " Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, — which my friend M — was obliging enough to read and explain to me, — • for the first seventy thousand ages ate... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 страници
...believe, of the entertainment. " Golden lads and lasses must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust " ' — James White is extinct, and with him these suppers...Bartholomew, and the glory of Smithfield departed forever. 1 Shakespeare's Cynibeline, Act IV. Sc. 2. BARBARA SON the noon of the 14th of November, 1743... | |
| Adele Ellis - 1896 - 216 страници
...believe, of the entertainment. Golden lads and lasses must. 30 As chimney-sweepers, come to dust — JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers...Bartholomew, and the glory of Smithfield departed for ever. WITCHES AND OTHER NIGHT-FEABS. WE are too hasty when we set down our ancestors in the gross for fools,... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 492 страници
...so playful and so light a foot, That the pressed daisy scarce declined her head. — Charles Lamb. A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG. Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1898 - 324 страници
...incidents I am sorrowfully reminded of what 12 ' Elia ' says of his merry friend Jem White : ' Jem White is extinct and with him these suppers have long...the world when he died — of my world at least.' Of Lockwood as a sportsman I am not qualified to speak. He looked like one — but he was not, so I... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1898 - 286 страници
...incidents I am sorrowfully reminded of what I 2 ' Elia' says of his merry friend Jem White : ' Jem White is extinct and with him these suppers have long...carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died—of my world at least.' Of Lockwood as a sportsman I am not qualified to speak. He looked like... | |
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