 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 482 páginas
...writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters, while... | |
 | 1836 - 540 páginas
...writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears,...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vien of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters, while... | |
 | 1862 - 656 páginas
...the fine humor of Lamb. They both talked better than they wrote. The jests of Lamb, Hazlitt said, " scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words." The conversation of Coleridge was rapt, oracular, and transcendental ; it was not talk, it was not... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 252 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-a-dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 342 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-a-dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1849 - 270 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the in11* tense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1850 - 392 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-adozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 páginas
...pen of John Buncle to consecrate a petit souvenir to their memory! There was Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vein of home-felt truth! What choice venom ! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters, while... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 576 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 páginas
...those humours of tragical fancy with which he [Lamb] refreshed his ultra-humanity." Hazlitt said: " His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words." Thus talking, matter-of-fact people knew not what to make of him. And thus writing (for he wrote as... | |
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He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does.... 
