Essays from Elia ...

Charles Lamb

J.R. Osgood and Company, 1877 - 94 σελίδες

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Essays of Elia

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Lamb's Elia essays originally appeared in London Magazine in 1820 and proved so popular that the pieces were collected and released as a single volume in 1823. This University of Iowa reprint is a ...

Περιεχόμενα

• A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG: 5
• MRS BATTLES OPINIONS ON WHIST: 19
• OLD CHINA: 31
• POOR RELATIONS: 41
• DREAMCHILDREN: 53
• A BACHELORS COMPLAINT ON THE BEHAVIOR: 61
• GRACE BEFORE MEAT: 73
• ELLISTONIANA: 85

Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα

Σελίδα 58 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness...

Σελίδα 20 - These insufferable triflers are the curse of a table. One of these flies will spoil a whole pot. Of such it may be said that they do not play at cards, but only play at playing at them.

Σελίδα 79 - Into the desert, and how there he slept Under a juniper ; then how, awaked, He found his supper on the coals prepared, And by the angel was bid rise and eat, And eat the second time after repose, The strength whereof sufficed him forty days : Sometimes that with Elijah he partook, Or as a guest with Daniel at his pulse.

Σελίδα 6 - Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches and the labour of an hour or two at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.

Σελίδα 16 - ... my recollection, and the pleasure, and the curiosity I had taken in seeing her make it, and her joy when she sent it to the oven, and how disappointed she would feel that I had never had a bit of it in my mouth at last — and I blamed my impertinent spirit of alms-giving, and out-of-place...

Σελίδα 78 - Him thought, he by the brook of Cherith stood, And saw the ravens with their horny beaks Food to Elijah bringing, even and morn, Though ravenous, taught to abstain from what they brought...

Σελίδα 7 - ... surrendering himself up to the newborn pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh next it, and was cramming it down his throat in his beastly fashion, when his sire entered amid the smoking rafters, armed with...

Σελίδα 54 - ... decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would be foolish indeed.

Σελίδα 13 - Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure — and for such a tomb might be content to die.

Σελίδα 5 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks

Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας

• Τίτλος: Essays from Elia ...; Vest-pocket series
• Συγγραφέας: Charles Lamb
• Εκδότης: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1877
• Πρωτότυπο από: Πανεπιστήμιο Χάρβαρντ
• Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις: 20 Φεβ. 2008
• Μέγεθος: 94 σελίδες