 I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing...  The prose works of Charles Lamb - Strona viautor: Charles Lamb - 1836Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1823 - Liczba stron: 734
...phrases. They had not been hit, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...should be strange to him. Egotistical they have been 90 pronounced by some who did not know, that what he tells us, as of himself, was often true only (historically)... | |
 | 1835 - Liczba stron: 426
...words, " they had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a selfpleasing quaintness, than...naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him." His first work was published in 1798, in conjunction with his school-fellow, Charles Lloyd, entitled... | |
 | 1823 - Liczba stron: 732
...such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affoct a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him. Egotistical they have be«r pronounced l>y Some who did not know, that what he tells MS, as of himself, was often true only... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1828 - Liczba stron: 266
...and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a selfpleasing quaintness, than...often true, only, (historically,) of another; as in his Fourth Essay, (to save many instances,) —where under the first person, (his favourite figure,)... | |
 | 1835 - Liczba stron: 432
...phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...often true, only, (historically,) of another ; as in his Fourth Essay, (to save many instances,) — where under the first person, (his favourite figure,)... | |
 | 1835 - Liczba stron: 430
...other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintnets, than to affect a naturalness, (so called,} that should...often true, only, (historically,) of another ; as in his Fourth Essay, (to save many instances,) — where under the first person, (his favourite figure,)... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - Liczba stron: 440
...phrases. They had not been, his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a selfpleasing quaintness, than...Egotistical they have been pronounced by some who did not knew, that what he tells us, as of himself, was often true only (historically) of another; as in a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - Liczba stron: 608
...and phrases. They had not been his if they had been other than such ; and better it is that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.' Very early in life, Lamb had been directed, by his senior schoolfellow, Coleridge, to the perusal of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - Liczba stron: 304
...phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than...Essay (to save many instances) — where under the frst person (his favourite figure) he shadows forth the forlorn estate of a country-boy placed at a... | |
 | 1860 - Liczba stron: 444
...and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is that a writer should be natural in a selfpleasing quaintness, than...naturalness (so called,) that should be strange to him." My late friend, was, in many respects, a singular character. Those who did not like him, hated him... | |
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