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" EMINENT COMPOSERS. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites ; for my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, or for Handel. "
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Poems and plays - Page 77
by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...Whence none can recall her, Though proud once as Juno ! FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites...live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow ! So help me Heaven, I hardly have...
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The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...Whence none can recall her, Though proud once as Juno! FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites...live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow ? So help me Heaven, I hardly have...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 109

American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...strenuous class that elicited Charles Lamb's verses beginning — " Some cry up Haydn, some Moxart, Just as the whim bites; for my part I do not care...farthing candle For either of them, or for Handel " will doubtless deem Lord North an utter barbarian. George III. scolded him for never going to the...
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The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume 4

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1850 - 444 pages
...of them, or for Handel. — Cannot a man live free and easy, Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the world with comfort go, That never heard of Doctor...Blow ? So help me heaven, I hardly have ; And yet 1 eat, and drink, and shave, Like other people, if you watch it, And know no more of stave or crotchet,...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 2

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...befall her, Whence none can recall her, KHKB TIIOUGIlTd. 2E THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites...live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow I So help me Heaven, I hardly have...
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Rosamund Gray, Essays, Letters, and Poems

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 pages
...Whence none can recall her, Though proud once as Juno! FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites...live free and easy, Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow? So help me heaven, I hardly have;...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1857 - 628 pages
...Whence none can recall her, Though proud once as Juno ! FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites...man live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi 1 Or through the world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow? So help me Heaven, I hardly...
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The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - English poetry - 1858 - 142 pages
...Whence none can recall her, Though proud once as Juno ! FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites...live free and easy, Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow ? So help me heaven, I hardly have...
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Sketch of Handel and Beethoven, two lectures

Thomas Hanly Ball - 1864 - 110 pages
...or yield to song." All, however, do not agree with Byron and Shakespeare. Charles Lamb says : — " Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites....live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the earth with comfort go, That never heard of Doctor Blow ? I hardly have ; And yet I eat,...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...Compare the admirably humorous verses, "Free Thoughts on several Eminent Composers," beginning — " Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites...live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the world with comfort go That never heard of Dr. Blow ?" My friend A.'s. — Doubtless Lamb's...
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