 | Charles Lamb - 1837 - 868 pages
...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'...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.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil ? Think of what you would have been now, if, instead of being fed with tales and old wives'...and natural history! " Hang them ! I mean the cursed reasoning crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. " As to the translations,... | |
 | 1838 - 1012 pages
...with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil ? Think of what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives'...natural history ! • Hang them ! — I mean the cursed reasoning crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. We now come to an important... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Think of what you would have been now, if, instead of being fed with tales and old wives'...natural history ! " Hang them ! I mean the cursed reasoning crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. " As to the translations,... | |
 | 1845 - 648 pages
...character, we arc 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 child." We do not appreciate feeling. We estimate knowledge far beyond sentiment. We reverence intellect... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 260 pages
...character, we 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 child." We do not appreciate feeling. We estimate knowledge far beyond sentiment. We reverence intellect... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...remembering what manner of man STC was, we read very feelingly : " Think of what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives'...had been crammed with geography and natural history !" Ach Himmel! what had then become of the "Ancient Mariner," and " Christabel," and all the others,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...remembering what manner of man STC was, we read very feelingly : " Think of what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives'...had been crammed with geography and natural history !" Ach Himmel! what had then become of the "Ancient Mariner," and " Christabel," and all the others,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 576 pages
...with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Think of what you would have been now, if, instead of being fed with tales and old wives'...natural history ! " Hang them ! I mean the cursed reasoning crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child. "As to the translations,... | |
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... interest in wild tales, which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child. Science has succeeded to poetry no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this... 
