 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 - Pàgina viper Charles Lamb - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - 1922 - 354 pàgines
...also took a wild delight in assumption, and in " making himself many." In his essays he acknowledges " that what he tells us, as of himself, was often true only (historically) of another." As one of "many instances" he cites the essay on Christ's Hospital in which, writing in the first person... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1923 - 144 pàgines
...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...naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him. Preface to The Last Essays of Elia. 1823. BYRON I never can make out his great power, which his admirers... | |
 | Margaret Russett - 1997 - 318 pàgines
...negative capability when "Phil-Elia" counters his predecessor's "egotistical" reputation with the remark that what he tells us, as of himself, was often true only (historically) of another; as in his Fourth Essay (to save many instances) - where under the first person (his favourite figure) he... | |
 | Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - 2004 - 500 pàgines
...Montaigne: "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...naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him" (135). Montaigne's argument for sincerity is transferred to nineteenth-century London, seeming to parody... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1924 - 236 pàgines
...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...naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him". And yet surely he has insisted on his archaisms too often; the audacious curiosity of circumlocutions... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 140 pàgines
...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...naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him. Preface to The Last Essays of Elia. 1823. 106 BYRON— SHELLEY— JOHN CLARE BYRON I never can make... | |
 | 1933 - 236 pàgines
...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...naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him". And yet surely he has insisted on his archaisms too often; the audacious curiosity of circumlocutions... | |
 | 1835 - 1190 pàgines
...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...naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.' Very early in life, Lamb had been directed, by his senior schoolfellow, Coleridge, to the perusal of... | |
 | 1835 - 626 pàgines
...and phrases. They had not been Ins if they had heen 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 he strange to him.' Very early in life, Lamb had been directed, by his senior schoolfellow, Coleridge,... | |
 | University of North Dakota - 1927 - 438 pàgines
...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 (socalled) that should be strange to him." Who Are The Natural Superiors JAMES M. REINHARDT* The past... | |
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