 The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. All these emotions must be strange to you ; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider,...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 211838Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1837 - 868 pages
...have been doing all my life, not to have ient great portions of my heart with usury to such icenes ? " My attachments are all local, purely local — I have...engendering of poetry and books,) to groves and valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my life, a bookcase which has... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...these emotions must be strange to you; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great...such scenes ? ' My attachments are all local, purely local—I have no passion (or have had none since I was in love, and then it was the spurious engendering... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...these emotions must be strange to you ; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes ? " It is quite clear, however, from other parts of his correspondence, and, indeed, from a careful... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...these emotions must be strange to you; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life not to have lent great...engendering of poetry and books) to groves and valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my life, a bookcase which has... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...these emotions must be strange to you ; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life not to have lent great...of poetry and books) to groves and •valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my life, a bookcase which has... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1838 - 546 pages
...reasonable time." How agreeably he communicates one of his peculiarities to his friend Wordsworth : — " My attachments are all local, purely local. I have...engendering of poetry and books) to groves and valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my life, a bookcase which has... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...reasonable time." How agreeably he communicates one of his peculiarities to his friend Wordsworth:—"My attachments are all local, purely local. I have no...engendering of poetry and books) to groves and valleys. The rooms where 1 was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my life, a bookcase which has... | |
 | 1838 - 1012 pages
...usury to 8uch scenes ? " My attachments are a)] local, purely local — I have no passion (or have hnd none since I was in love, and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry and books,) to proves and valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 576 pages
...these emotions must be strange to you ; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life not to have lent great...engendering of poetry and books) to groves and valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my life, a bookcase which has... | |
 | Thomas Cooke - 1855 - 236 pages
...these emotions must be strange to you : so are your rural occupations to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great...and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry or hooks,) to groves and valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before mv... | |
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