 Homer, Shakespeare, Milton and Virgil. Lamb got exceedingly merry and exquisitely witty ; and his fun in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of oratory was like the sarcasm and wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. He made a speech...  The Quarterly Review - Page 484edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1853 - 568 pages
...Homer, Shakspeare, Milton, and Virgil. Lamb got exceedingly merry, and exquisitely witty ; and his fun in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of...wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. Lamb soon got delightfully merry. He made a speech and voted me absent, and made them drink my health.... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1853 - 408 pages
...Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Virgil. Lamb got exceedingly merry, and exquisitely witty ; and his fun in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of...wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. Lamb soon got delightfully merry. He made a speech and voted me absent, and made them drink my health.... | |
 | 1853 - 638 pages
...-Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Virgil. Lamb got exceedingly merry and exquisitely witty; and his fun in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of oratory, was like the sarcasms and wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. Lamb soon got delightfully merry.... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...Homer, Shakspeare, Milton, and Virgil. Lamb got exceedingly merry and exquisitely witty, and his fun in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of...wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. Lamb soon got delightfully merry. He made a speech and voted me absent, and made them drink my health.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 pages
...from an adjoining apartment : " Who is that ti/lio w ? allow me to see his organs once ГПОГР." " His fun," says Haydon, " in the midst of Wordsworth's...intonations of oratory, was like the sarcasm and wit of tho fool in the intervals of Lear's passion." The acquaintance of Lamb was al:;t<?r acquisition, and... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 374 pages
...traveller. Wordsworth was in tine cue, Lamb got exceedingly mirthful and exquisitely witty ; and his fun, in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of...wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. Lamb soon got delightfully merry. " Now," said Lamb, " you old Lake-poet, you rascally poet, why do... | |
 | John Timbs - 1874 - 360 pages
...traveller. Wordsworth was in fine cue, Lamb got exceedingly mirthful and exquisitely witty ; and his fun, in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of...wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. Lamb soon got delightfully merry. " Now," said Lamb, " you old Lakepoet, you rascally poet, why do... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Virgil. Lamb got exceedingly merry and exquisitely witty ; and his fun, in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of...wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. Lamb soon got delightfully merry. He made a speech and voted me absent, and made them drink my health.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 466 pages
...Keats, and a few more being the guests. " Lamb got exceedingly merry and exquisitely witty, and his fun in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of...wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. He made a speech and voted me absent, and made them drink my health. ' Now,' said Lamb, ' you old lake... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 212 pages
...Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Virgil. Lamb got exceedingly merry, and exquisitely witty ; and his fun, in the midst of Wordsworth's solemn intonations of...wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. He made a speech and voted me absent, and made them drink my health. " Now," said Lamb, " you old lake... | |
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