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" A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. "
Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses - Page 88
by John Ferriar - 1812
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Selections (mainly Autobiographical) from Nineteenth Century Prose: With Notes

John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 pages
...shall affect him most, amabilis insania, and mentis gratissimus error. A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves,...parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. — So delightsome these toys at first, they could spend whole days and...
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Essays of Elia. First Series

Charles Lamb - 1905 - 352 pages
...shall affect him most, amabilis insania, and mentis gratissimus error. A most 5 incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves,...parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. —So delightsome these toys at first, they could spend whole days and...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1907 - 264 pages
...affect him most, amdbilis insania,13 and mentis gratissimus error.14 A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves,...parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. — So delightsome these toys at first, they could spend whole days and...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pages
...shall affect him most, amabilis insania, and mentis yrntissimm error. A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they 35 suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. — So delightsome these toys at...
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Selected Essays of Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1910 - 352 pages
...affect him most, aindbilis insania, and mentis gratissimus error. A most 10 incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves,...parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. — So delightsome these toys at first they could spend whole days and...
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Elia

Charles Lamb - 1911 - 348 pages
...shall affect him most, amabiUs insania, and mentis gratissimus error. A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves,...variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly 30 1 Wordsworth, PETER BELL. imagine, they act, or that they see done.—So delightsome these toys...
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English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration

Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 pages
...them most ; amabilis insania, and mentis gratissimus error. A most incomparable delight it is so to melancholize, and build castles in the air, to go...imagine they represent, or that they see acted or done. Blanda quidem ab initio, saith Lemnius, to conceive and meditate of such pleasant things sometimes,...
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A Grammar of Late Modern English: The parts of speech. Section I. A. Nouns ...

Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 758 pages
...unspotted from the World. BUNYAN , P i 1 g r. P rog r. !) iii. A most incomparable delight it is so to melancholize, and build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves. BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy.') /8) Vulgar English sometimes has meself for myself. Compare Ch. XXXIII,...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...shall affect him most, amabilis insaniaf and mentis gratissimus error. 6 A most incomparable delight to act, or that they see done.— So delightsome these toys 1 at first, they could spend whole days and...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...-punctuation marks 3a pantomimist 4 Cf. Revelation, x : 10 6 pleasant lunacy 6 most delightful mental delusion orn and lost with sick unpruned wing." "My Madeline!...sweet dreamer! lovely bride ! Say, may I be for aye t act, or that they see done. — So delightsome these toys1 at first, they could spend whole days and...
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