 For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print, or do it in better verses. It did well enough five years ago when I came to see you, and was moral coxcomb enough at the time you wrote...  Characteristics: Sketches and Essays - Σελίδα 115των Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 362 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 σελίδες
...last stanza is detestable, the rest most exquisite ! the epithet enviable would dash the finest poem. For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make...gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited ; the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings. My sentiment... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 σελίδες
...last stanza is detestable, the rest most exquisite ! the epithet enviable would dash the finest poem. For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make...gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited ; the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings. My sentiment... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1838 - 416 σελίδες
...perhaps makes all the difference. But we are reminded of his earnest expostulation with Coleridge, " For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make...ridiculous any more by terming me gentlehearted in print. * * My sentiment is long since vanished. J hope my virtues have done sucking." We are not competent... | |
 | 1838 - 420 σελίδες
...perhaps makes all the difference. But we are reminded of his earnest expostulation with Coleridge, " For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make...ridiculous any more by terming me gentlehearted in print. * * My sentiment is long since vanished. I hope my virtues have done sucking." We are not competent... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 σελίδες
...epithet enviable would dash the finest poem For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make ma ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in...gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited ; the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings. My sentiment... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 σελίδες
...last stanza is detestable, the rest most exquisite ! the epithet enviable would dash the finest poem. For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make...gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited ; the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings. My sentiment... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 576 σελίδες
...last stanza is detestable, the rest most exquisite ! the epithet enviable would dash the finest poem. For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make...came to see you, and was moral coxcomb enough at the lime you wrote the lines to feed upon such epithets ; but, besides that, the meaning of gentle is equivocal... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 σελίδες
...stanza is detestable, the rest most exquisite !—the epithet enviable would dash the finest poem. For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make...gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited; the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings. My sentiment is... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - 1867 - 232 σελίδες
...till this year, (1800) and caused Lamb thus to remonstrate against the epithet used to describe him. "For God's sake (I never was more serious) dont make...besides that, the meaning of gentle is equivocal at least, and almost always means poor-spirited. My sentiment is long since vanished. I hope my virtues... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 466 σελίδες
...stanza is detestable, the rest most exquisite :• the epithet enviable would dash the finest poem. For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make..." gentle " is equivocal at best, and almost always mean ? poor-spirited ; the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings. My sentiment... | |
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