I asked you the question once before : it breathes the very spirit of innocence, purity, and simplicity of heart. There are many choice old verses interspersed in it. It would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it; it would Christianise every... Side-walk Studies - Página 251por Austin Dobson - 1903 - 294 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 páginas
...innocence, purity, and simplicity of heart ; there are many choice, old verses interspersed in it ; it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it ; it would Christianize every discordant angry passion ; pray make yourself acquainted with it. " When... | |
| 1893 - 846 páginas
...innocence, purity, and simplicity of heart ; there are many choice old verses interspersed in it ; it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it ; it would Christianize every discordant passion ; pray make yourself acquainted with it." Already... | |
| 1849 - 736 páginas
...Coleridge, prays him to make himself acquainted with Walton's Complete Angler, and goes on to observe it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it ; it would Christianize every discordant, angry passion ; and Hazlitt thought it was perhaps the best... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 páginas
...Sheridan, Hallam, Washington Irving, Miss Mitford—have rung its praises ; and Charles Lamb says, that "it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it, and Christianize every discordant passion." It is, therefore, no matter of surprise that the demand... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Henry George Bohn - 1856 - 634 páginas
...Sheridan, Hallam, Washington Irving, Miss Mitford — have rung its praises ; and Charles Lamb says, that "it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it, and Christianize every discordant passion." It is, therefore, no matter of surprise that the demand... | |
| 1864 - 472 páginas
...innocence, purity, and simplicity of heart ; there are many choice old verses interspersed in it ; it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it ; it would Christianize every discordant angry passion : pray make yourself acquainted with it." We... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1864 - 672 páginas
...innocence, purity, and simplicity of heart ; there are many choice old verses interspersed in it ; it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it ; it would christianise every discordant angry passion." The first edition of the " Compleat Angler... | |
| Charles Pebody - 1872 - 458 páginas
...purity, and simplicity of heart," he says ; " there are many choice old phrases treasured up in it ; it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it ; it would Christianize every discordant, angry passion." Cowley, too, was "very dear to him." His... | |
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