 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 482 páginas
...true keeping, as the simplest fare was all that was necessary to tempt the extremity of hunger — and stating that Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost were too...like married people. He has furnished many a text for C to preach upon. There was no fuss or cant about him : nor were his sweets or his sours ever diluted... | |
 | 1837 - 666 páginas
...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained view of home-felt truth ! What a choice venom ! He has furnished many a text for Coleridge to preach...sours ever diluted with one particle of affectation. " There appeared some time ago an article in a popular periodical, which embodies a very high and an... | |
 | 1837 - 664 páginas
...laughing, hair-brained view of home-felt truth ! What a choice venom ! He has furnished many a text tor Coleridge to preach upon. There was no fuss or cant...sours ever diluted with one particle of affectation." There appeared some time ago an article in a popular periodical, which embodies a very high and an... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 páginas
...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained view of home-felt truth ! What a choice venom ! He has furnished many a text for Coleridge to preach...sours ever diluted with one particle of affectation." " Do you spend much time in reading ? " we inquired. " Yes, the mornings invariably; and sometimes... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 466 páginas
...true keeping, as the simplest fare was all that was necessary to tempt the extremity of hunger ; and stating that Adam and Eve in ' Paradise Lost ' were too much like married people. There was no fuss or cant about him, nor were his sweets or his sours ever diluted with one particle... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 páginas
...true keeping, as the simplest fare was all that was necessary to tempt the extremity of hunger, and stating that Adam and Eve, in ' Paradise Lost,' were...no fuss or cant about him ; nor were his sweets or sours ever diluted with one particle of affectation." Towards the unhappy close of Sheridan's life,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 466 páginas
...true keeping, as the simplest fare was all that was necessary to tempt the extremity of hunger; and stating that Adam and Eve in ' Paradise Lost' were too much like married people. There was no fuss or cant about him, nor were his sweets or his sours ever diluted with one particle... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1885 - 328 páginas
...half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes a question with a play upon words. . . . There was no fuss or cant about him ; nor were his...sours ever diluted with one particle of affectation. — WILLIAM HAZLITT (" Conversation of Authors "). Many of Lamb's witty and curious sayings have been... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1885 - 328 páginas
...half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes a question with a play upon words. . . . There was no fuss or cant about him ; nor were his...sweets or his sours ever diluted with one particle of affectation.—WILLIAM HAZLITT ("Conversation of Authors "). Many of Lamb's witty and curious sayings... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - 586 páginas
...true keeping, as the simplest fare was all that was necessary to tempt the extremity of hunger — and stating that Adam and Eve in " Paradise Lost " were...cannot say that the party at Lamb's were all of one deseription. There were honorary members, lay-brothers. Wit and good-fellowship was the motto inscribed... | |
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He tried them on his palate as epicures taste olives, and his observations had a smack in them, like a roughness on the tongue. With what discrimination he hinted a defect in what he admired most— as in saying that the display of the sumptuous banquet... 
