 To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other : — that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon...  The Living Age - Page 4441910Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...head-contests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil, and dry at ! Light-giving, life-sustaining Potentate ! Thy chains the unme To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, — (dropping for awhile the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...head-contests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...hard-headed contests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...hard-headed contests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...head-contests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...headcontests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing he bad passions, she would retort, that man is... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...hard-headed contests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that men is... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...head-contests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil aud dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 862 pages
...catastrophe of Messina. This was doubtless southern, but English people played with the same intentnese. Sarah Battle delighted. it will be remembered, in...cards'') all bear the names of kings and knights and ladies of romance. These have varied from time to time, but the names that have survived are Charles,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...hard-headed contests can in no instance ally with the fancy. They reject form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that men is... | |
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