 Cripplegate mould. Coleridge is just dead, having lived just long enough to close the eyes of Wordsworth, who paid the debt to nature but a week or two before — poor Col., but two days before he died, he wrote to a bookseller proposing an epic poem...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 439edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - Authors, English - 1886 - 526 pages
...long enough to close the eyes of Wordsworth, who paid the debt to nature but a week or two before. Poor Col., but two days before he died, he wrote to a bookseller proposing an epic poem on the ' Wandering of Cain,' in twentyfour books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand... | |
 | American periodicals - 1887 - 992 pages
...enough to close the eyes of Wordsworth, who paid the debt of nature but a week or two before. I'oor Col., but two days before he died he wrote to a bookseller...the " Wanderings of Cain," in twenty-four books. It was said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticisms, metaphysics, and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1888 - 396 pages
...long enough to close the eyes of Wordsworth, who paid the debt to Nature but a week or two before. Poor Col., but two days before he died he wrote to...divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - American literature - 1892 - 192 pages
...consequence in the estimation of others, with him was a secondary point."— JOSEPH COTTLE. " Poor C. — but two days before he died, he wrote to a bookseller,...on the ' Wanderings of Cain,' in twentyfour books." — CHAKI.BS LAMB TO MANNING. run our eye through the pages of a favourite author, will never exist... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 366 pages
...long enough to close the eyes of Wordsworth, who paid the debt to nature but a week or two before. Poor Col., but two days before he died he wrote to a bookseller proposing an epic poem on the " Wandering of Cain," in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 388 pages
...of Wordsworth, who paid the debt to Nature but a week or two before. Poor Col., but two days beiore he died he wrote to a bookseller, proposing an epic...divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
 | 1896 - 842 pages
...imperfection, "The Three Graves," "The Wanderings of Cain," "The Ballad of the Dark Ladle," and "Christabel." One of these fragments gave Charles Lamb the hint...poem on the *Wanderings of Cain' in twentyfour books. lt is said he has left behind him more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics, and... | |
 | 1897 - 586 pages
...Achievements. "Poor Col., but two days before be died he wrote to a bookseller proposing an epic poem of 'The Wanderings of Cain' in twenty-four books. It is said he has left behind him more than 40,000 treatises In criticism, metaphysics, and divinity, but few of them in a state of completion."... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 586 pages
...long enough to close the eyes of Wordsworth, who paid the debt to nature but a week or two before. Poor Col., but two days before he died he wrote to...divinity, but few of them in a state of completion. They are now destined, perhaps, to wrap up spices. You see what mutations the busy hand of Time has... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1900 - 612 pages
...Wordsworlh, is a preposterous contribution to biography ; but how delightfully true is the touch about the ' more than forty thousand treatises in criticism, metaphysics,...divinity, but few of them in a state of completion.' We are not by any means equally pleased with the class of jest to which Lamb gave the probably contemporary... | |
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