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" ... little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with Tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural... "
The Optimist - Page 14
by Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 273 pages
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The Works of Charles Lamb, Volumes 1-2

Charles Lamb - 1837 - 868 pages
...had been crammed with geography and natural history ! " Hang them I — I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. * A nickname of endearment for little Hartley Coleridge. " As to the translations, let me...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 16

1845 - 648 pages
...are tempted to exclaim with Charles Lamb, " Hang them !—I mean the cursed reasoning crew—those blights and blasts of all that is human in man or...the most part against vices of appetite, which are olten the overflowings of rich natures, linked with the most generous qualities, and in most cases,...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 17

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 570 pages
...that unrivalled exposition of the power of love, and "jealousy, that doats but dooms, and murders yet adores " — declares the moral of the sublime drama...the love of excitement in which the formal lives of New-Englanders re-act, is not entitled to the name. We crusade, for the most part, against vices of...
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The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb: A sketch of the life of ...

Charles Lamb - 1876 - 466 pages
...you had been crammed with geography and natural history ! Hang them ! — I mean the cursed Barbauld1 crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. As to the translations, let me do two or three hundred lines, and then do you try the nostrums...
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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems, Etc

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...hnd been crammed with geography and natural history ! " Hang them ! — I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. " As to the translations, let me do two or three hundred lines, and then do you try the...
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Life, Letters, and Writings, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1882 - 466 pages
...you had been crammed with geography and natural history! Hang them ! — I mean the cursed Barbauld1 crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. As to the translations, let me do two or three hundred lines, and then do you try the nostrums...
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Letters of Charles Lamb: With Some Account of the Writer, His ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1886 - 494 pages
...you had been crammed with geography and natural history ! " Hang them !—I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. " As to the translations, let me do two or three hundred lines, and then do you try the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 175

1887 - 890 pages
...overpowering objection to them. " Hang them ! " he wrote to Coleridge in 1802 ; " I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child." It is interesting to note that the same old-world pomposity of style which disfigures Mrs....
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Juvenile Literature as it is

Edward Salmon - 1888 - 262 pages
...overpowering objection to them. "Hang them," he wrote to Coleridge in 1802, " I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child." It is interesting to note that the same old-world pomposity of style which disfigures Mrs...
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The Best Letters of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 366 pages
...you had been crammed with geography and natural history ! Hang them ! — I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. As to the translations, let me do two or three hundred lines, and then do you try the nostrums...
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