 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 492 pages
...John Buncle to consecrate a petit souvenir to their memory ! — There was L — himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes a question with... | |
 | 1836 - 540 pages
...pen of John Buncle to consecrate & petit souvenir to their memory ! There was Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1839 - 450 pages
...pins and needles " — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described, to stammer out the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-coloured suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...he is " the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Home Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...whispering its faint under-song." It is said of Charles Lamb, in the Plain Speaker, that he is " the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...whispering its faint under-song." It is said of Charles Lamb, in the Plain Speaker, that he a " the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...whispering its faint under-song." It is said of Charles Lamb, in the Plain Speaker, that he is "the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...pins and needles" — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described, to stammer out the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-colored suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...pins and needles" — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described, to stammer out the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-colored suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 590 pages
...pins and needles " — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described, to stammer out the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-coloured suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips... | |
| |
Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. 
