... 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 14by Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 273 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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