 To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.  The Living Age - 404. oldal1907Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 oldal
...obliged to any man for a sixpence. This was — a Poor Relation. DETACHED THOUGHTS OX BOOKS AND READING. To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. — L<.rd Foppington, in " The Relapse." AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much Il_ struck... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 472 oldal
...DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND BEADING. To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with th« forced product of another man's brain. Now I think...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. — Lord Foppington, in " The Relapse." AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 300 oldal
...to save himself the pain of thinking. — William Jfazlitt. DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND BEADING. To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. Lord Foppington in the. Relapse. AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with this bright... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 oldal
...silence this crude prose, they shall celebrate thy praise. DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING. To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. ^t . . Lord Foppington in the Relapse. AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 40 oldal
...Jfinas BOSTON Privately printed for Herbert Copeland and FH Day And their friends, Christmas MDCCCXCIV To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. — Lord Foppingtott, in " Tht Kflafse." AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with... | |
 | 1891 - 396 oldal
...of his volumes. Foppington went farther and fared worse in despising the interiors into the bargain. "To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...much amused with the natural sprouts of his own." Unfortunately for this reasoning, even men of quality and breeding are not all Foppingtons, and are... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 oldal
...Madonna-ish chit of a lady in that very blue summer house." DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING. To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. — LOUD FOPPINGTON, in The Relapse. AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with this... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 oldal
...lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist XLVIII. DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING. To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. — Lord Foppington, in " The Relapse". 1 AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 324 oldal
...lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist XLVIII. DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING. To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. — Lord Foppington, in " The Relapse". l AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with... | |
 | Sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway - 1897 - 416 oldal
...now ! " To mind the inside of a book," says Lord FOPPINGTON in the Relapse, " is to entertain oneself with the forced product of another man's brain. Now,...much amused with the natural sprouts of his own." Doubtless there are, at the present moment many men " of quality and breeding" who derive an immense... | |
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