Lamb's Essays; a Biographical Study
by Charles Lamb
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ISBN13: 9781150044656
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1891. Excerpt: ... f BLAKESMOOR IN H SHIRE. London Magazine, September, i824.] There are few of his papers in which the past years of his life are more delightfully revived. The house had been "reduced to an antiquity." But we go with him to the grass plat, where he used to read Cowley; to the tapestried bedrooms where the mythological people of Ovid used to stand forth, half alive; even to "that haunted bedroom in which old Sarah Battle died," and into which he "used to creep in a passion of fear." These things are all touched with a delicate pen; mixed and incorporated with tender reflections; for " The solitude of childhood" (as he says) "is not so much the mother of thought as the feeder of love." With him it was both. -- Bryan Waller Procter. - BLAKESMOOB IN H SHIEE. I DO not know a pleasure more affecting than to range at will over the deserted apartments of some fine old family mansion. The traces of extinct grandeur admit of a better passion than envy; and contemplations on the great and good, whom we fancy in succession to have been its inhabitants, weave for us illusions, incompatible with the bustle of modern occupancy, and vanities of foolish present aristocracy. The same difference of feeling, I think, attends us between entering an empty and a crowded church. In the latter it is chance but some present human frailty -- an act of inattention on the part of some of the auditory -- or a trait of affectation, or worse, vain-glory, on that of the preacher -- puts us by our best thoughts, disharmonising the place and the occasion. But wouldst thou know the beauty of holiness? -- go alone on some week-day, borrowing the keys of good Master Sexton, traverse the cool aisles of some country church -- think of the piety that has kneeled there -- the congregations, old and young, that have fou...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150044656 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150044659 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 124 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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