 | 1821 - 724 pàgines
...hall, where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall, how many times ! to the astoundment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...they measured, and to take their revelations of its (light immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain of light ! How would the dark... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pàgines
...hall, where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall how many times ! to the astoundment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...magic ! What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that time which they measured, and to... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pàgines
...hall when the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall how many times! to the astoundment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...the wondrous work as magic! What an antique air had th now almost effaced sun-dials, with their moral inscription; seeming coevals with that time which... | |
 | John William Lester - 1847 - 376 pàgines
...that hour" subdues us now. Charles Lamb, in one of his quaint but exquisite essays beautifully says: " What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coeval with that time which they measured, and to take their revelations of its flight immediately... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1849 - 326 pàgines
...hall, where the fountain plays that I have made to rise and fall how many times, to the astonishment of the young urchins my contemporaries, who, not being...almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic !" There are other quiet, enclosed nooks, too, all pavement and brick walls, but shut in from the thoroughfares,... | |
 | Charles Badham - 1852 - 210 pàgines
...he says, ' ' had the almost effaced sundials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coeval with the time which they measured, and to take their revelations...holding correspondence with the fountain of light ! How does the dark line steal imperceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager to detect its movements,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pàgines
...hall, where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall how many times ! to the astoundment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...magic ! What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that time which they measured, and to... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pàgines
...hall, where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall how many times ! to the astoundment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...magic ! What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that time which they measured, and to... | |
 | 1862 - 460 pàgines
...of Harcourt ! What a collegiate aspect has that fine Elizabethan hall ! What an antique air had the sundials with their moral inscriptions seeming coevals with that time which they measured !" GRAY'S INN stands on the north side of Holborn and abuts on Gray's Inn Lane. It derives its name... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pàgines
...without mottoes. Charles Lamb has this charmingly reflective passage, suggested by the Temple dials : What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials,...holding correspondence with the fountain of light ! How could the dark line stoal imperceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager to detect its movement,... | |
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What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that Time which they measured, and to take their revelations of its flight immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain... 
