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... and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements , it began to put on darkness , and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head , and broke its stalk ; and , at night , having lost some of its ...
... and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements , it began to put on darkness , and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head , and broke its stalk ; and , at night , having lost some of its ...
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Pagina 257 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant, barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song, — where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the...
Pagina 132 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements...
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Pagina 131 - It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person, and it is visible to us who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange.
Pagina 51 - Bigod, ordinarily ministered to the other two. There was clambering and jostling, you may be sure, who should get at the first table - for Rochester in his maddest days could not have done the humours of the scene with more spirit than my friend.
Pagina 51 - ... how he would recommend this slice of white bread, or that piece of...
Pagina 132 - ... morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces.
Pagina 54 - I loved a Love once, fairest among women : Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her, — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man : Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly ; Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.
Pagina 47 - I gaz'd — and sigh'd, and sigh'd ! — for, ah ! how soon Eve darkens into night. Mine eye perus'd With tearful vacancy the dampy grass Which wept and glitter'd in the paly ray; And...
Pagina 52 - JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died — of my world at least.
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Charles Lamb and the Lloyds |
| Redacteur | Edward Verrall Lucas |
| Uitgever | Smith, Elder, 1898 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of California |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 10 sep 2007 |
| ISBN | 0827420412, 9780827420410 |
| Lengte | 297 pagina's |
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