I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends :... The American Whig Review - Página 5141848Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 páginas
...security of streets. 1 would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which 1 am arrived — I, and my friends : to be no younger,...discomposes me. My household gods plant a terrible filed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They do not willingly seek Lavinian shores. A new... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 páginas
...and the sweet security of streets. I would set up rny tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived — I. and my friends...say, into the grave. Any alteration, on this earth of 1111116, in diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household gods plant a terrible fixed... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 páginas
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived — I, and my friends...fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They dc not willingly seek Lavinian shores. A new state of being staggers me. Sun, and sky, and breeze,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 páginas
...solitudes,- and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends...diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They do not willingly... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 páginas
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends...drop, like mellow fruit, as they say, into the grave." In reference to these and similar avowals, it has been " apologetically " remarked, that the same peculiarity... | |
| 1858 - 688 páginas
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would setup my tabernacle here : I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived — I and my friends : to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. Any alteration on this earth of mine, in diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age at which I am arrived — to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not...puzzles and discomposes me. My household gods plant a terribly fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They do not willingly seek Lavinian shores.... | |
| Christian Nestell Bovee - 1862 - 258 páginas
...since, to the philoooplier, the perfection of tolerance u the toleration of intolerance. which I have arrived, I, and my friends ; to be no younger, no...richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age ; nor drop, like mellow fruits, as they say, into the grave." THE WORLD, (AS IT WILL, PERHAPS, APPEAR... | |
| Andrew Kennedy H. Boyd - 1864 - 496 páginas
...discern that there are the elements of change in all. ' I am content to stand still,' says Elia, ' at the age to which I am arrived : I, and my friends...to be weaned by age ; or drop, like mellow fruit, into the grave.' There are indeed moods of mind, in which all thoughtful men have possibly yielded... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1864 - 440 páginas
...we discern that there are the elements of change in all. ' I am content to stand still,' says Elia, 'at the age to which I am arrived: I, and my friends:...want to be weaned by age; or drop, like mellow fruit, into the grave.' There are indeed moods of mind, in which all thoughtful men have possibly yielded... | |
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