 I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant...  The essays of Elia. A new ed - Pàgina 112per Charles Lamb - 1857Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1821 - 724 pàgines
...countrymen whatever of ours they most covet (if they think any thing of ours worth naving) in return. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first seven years oí my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, 1 had almost... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pàgines
...women. But let her stand upon her female character, as upon a foundation ; and let the attentions, incident to individual preference, be so many pretty...structure. Let her first lesson be — with sweet Susan Whistanley — to reverence her гех. ELIA. AWAKE, MV LOVE. 1. Awake, my love ! ere morning's ray... | |
 | 1823 - 704 pàgines
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation ; and let the attentions, incident to individual preference, be so many pretty...with sweet Susan Winstanley— to reverence her sex." P. 187. We cannot take leave of Elia without acknowledging the same feeling with which we part from... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pàgines
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation ; and let the attentions incident to individual preference, be so many pretty...church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pàgines
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation ; and let the attentions, incident to individual preference,, be so many pretty...church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pàgines
...foundation ; and let the attentions incident to individual preference, be so many pretty addiUments and ornaments, as many and as fanciful as you please,...structure. Let her first lesson be, with sweet Susan Winrtanley, to ratrence her sex. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first... | |
 | 1837 - 666 pàgines
...all the influences it exercised, is thus described, both by himself and his biographer. " He says, ' I was born and passed the first seven years of my life in the Temple' : he might have added, that here he passed a great portion of the second seven years of his life, a... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 pàgines
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation ; and let the attentions, incident to individual preference, be so many pretty...TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the first seven years ot my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost... | |
 | 1837 - 656 pàgines
...influence they had on his infant mind is vividly shown in his description of the old Benchers. He says, • I was born and passed the first seven years of my life in the Temple,' he might have added, that here he passed a great portion of the second seven years of his life, a portion... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pàgines
...other women. But let her stand upon her female character as upon a foundation ; and let the attentions incident to individual preference, be so many pretty...structure. Let her first lesson be, with sweet Susan Wiustanley, to reverence her sex. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I WAS born, and passed the... | |
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