 I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing...  The prose works of Charles Lamb - Pągina viper Charles Lamb - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 448 pągines
...and phrases. They had not been his if they had been other than such ; and better it is that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...often true only (historically) of another ; as in his Third Essay, (to save many instances,) wheie, under the first person, (his favourite figure,) he... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pągines
...phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...former Essay (to save many instances) — where under 371 the first person (his favorite figure) he shadows forth the forlorn estate of a country boy placed... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pągines
...been other than such; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing qnaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should...favourite figure) he shadows forth the forlorn estate />fa country-boy placed at a London school, far from his friends and connections — in direct opposition... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 300 pągines
...and phrases. They had not been Ms, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...often true only (historically) of another ; as in his Fourth Essay (to save many instances) — where under the first person (his favourite figure) he... | |
 | 1900 - 532 pągines
...and phrases. They had not been his if they had been other than such ; and better it is that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness than to affect a naturalness (so-called) that should be strange to him." But we are sure at this late day that no criticism of "... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 380 pągines
...phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...himself, was often true only (historically) of another j as in a former Essay (to save many instances) — where under the first person (his favourite figure)... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 340 pągines
...phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness 255 (so-called) that should be strange to him. Egotistical they have been pronounced by some who did... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 346 pągines
...phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so-called) that should be strange to him. Egotistical they have been pronounced by some who did not... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 342 pągines
...phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness 255 (so-called) that should be strange to him. Egotistical they have been pronounced by some who did... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 pągines
...phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...have been pronounced by some who did not know, that 5 what he tells us, as of himself, was often true only (historically) of another; as in a former Essay... | |
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