...himself, by the exquisite manner in which we are introduced to them. In the first of these he says, " I was born and passed the first seven years of my life in the Temple. Its church, its hall, its garden, its fountain, its river I had almost said — for in those young years what was the...

...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 pasaed a great portion of the second seven years of hia lite, a portion...

..." I was born," says Charles Lamb in his delightful essay on The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple, " I was born, and passed the first seven years of my...stream that watered our pleasant places ? — these are my oldest recollections. I repeat, to this day, no verses to myself more frequently, or with kindlier...

...Lamb and his sister remain to us in a scattered form in his own writings. " I was born," he says, " and passed the first seven years of my life, in the...places? — these are of my oldest recollections. " The elders with whom I was brought up were of a character not likely to let slip the sacred observance...

...Lamb and his sister remain to us in a scattered form in his own writings. " I was born," he says, " and passed the first seven years of my life, in the...places? — these are of my oldest recollections. " The elders with whom I was brought up were of a character not likely to let slip the sacred observance...

...Lamb and his sister remain to us in \\ scattered form in his own writings. O " I was born," he says, " and passed the first seven years of my life, in the...Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, itsrivor, I had almost said—for in those young vears, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream...

...lesson be with sweet Susan Winstanley, to reverence her sex. THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. I wAS born, and passed the first seven years of my...places ? — these are of my oldest recollections. I repeat, to this day, no verses to myself more frequently, or with kindier emotion, than those of...

...intimate friends of the Lamb family, Randal Norris, for many years sub-treasurer of the Inner Temple.] I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my...pleasant places? these are of my oldest recollections. I repeat, to this day, no verses to myself more frequently, or with kindlier emotion, than tho.-c of...

...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,...

..." Vestigia nulla retrorsum ; " that in Brick Court, " Time and Tide tarry for no man." "I was bom, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the...stream that watered our pleasant places ! — these are my oldest recollections. . . . What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials, with their...