 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 628 sivua
...abstract senses, they aie far less momentous than VOL. I.— 5 the noises which keep Europe awake. I am reading ' Burnet's own Times.' Did you ever read that garrulous. plfisant history ? Me tells his story like an old man past political service, bragging to his sons... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 sivua
...on winter evenings of the part he took in public transactions, when ' his old cap was new.' • Fnll of scandal, -which all true history is. No palliatives ; but all the stark wickedness, that actually gives the momentum to national actors. Quite the prattle of age, and outlived importance. Truth and... | |
 | Henry John Van-Lennep - 1870 - 370 sivua
...and a copious Index, complete in I thick volume, imperial 8vo, portrait, cloth (pub £1 5s), 5s 6d. " I am reading Burnet's Own Times. Did you ever read...all true history is ; no palliatives, but all the siark wickedness that actually gave the momentum to national actors ; none of that cursed Humcian indifference,... | |
 | John Heywood - 1874 - 254 sivua
...complete in I thick volume, imperial 8vo, portrait, cloth (pub £1 5s), 53 6d. " I am reading Bumet's Own Times. Did you ever read that garrulous pleasant history? full of scandal, which all true h1story is ', no palliatives, but all the stark wickedness that actually gave the momentum to national... | |
 | Eliza Meteyard - 1875 - 462 sivua
...and a copious Index, complete in I thick volume, imperial 8vo, portrait, cloth (pub £l 5s), 5s6d. *' I am reading Burnet's Own Times. Did you ever read...and unnatural, and inhuman," &c. — CHARLES LAMB. Dante — The Divina Commedia, translated into English Verse by James Ford, AM, medallion frontispiece,... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 286 sivua
...a copious Index, complete in I thick volume, imperial 8vo, portrait, cloth (pub £,\ 55), 55 6d. " I am reading Burnet's Own Times. Did you ever read...indifference, so cold, and unnatural, and inhuman," £c. — CHARLES LAMB. Creasy (Sir Edward S.) — History of England, from the Earliest Times to the... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 284 sivua
...and a copious Index, complete in I thick volume, imperial Svo, portrait, cloth (pub £1 5s), 5s6d. " I am reading Burnet's Own Times. Did you ever read...but all the stark wickedness that actually gave the jmuntntum to national actors ; none of that cursed Humeian indifference, so cold, and unnatural, and... | |
 | George Bruce Malleson - 1875 - 468 sivua
...a copious Index, complete in I thick volume, imperial Svo, portrait, cloth (pub £l 5s), 5s 6d. " 1 am reading Burnet's Own Times. Did you ever read that...pleasant history? full of scandal, which all true htstory is ; no palliatives, but all the stark wickedness that actually gave the momentum to national... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 454 sivua
...his sons on winter evenings of the part he took in public transactions, when his " old cap was new." Full of scandal, which all true history is. No palliatives ; but all the stark wickedness, that actually gives the momentum to national actors. Quite the prattle of age, and outlived importance. Truth and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 456 sivua
...his sons on winter evenings of the part he took in public transactions, when his " old cap was new." Full of scandal, which all true history is. No palliatives ; but all the stark wickedness, that actually gives the momentum to national actors. Quite the prattle of age, and outlived importance. Truth and... | |
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I am reading Burnet's Own Times. Did you ever read that garrulous, pleasant history ? He tells his story like an old man past political service, bragging to his sons on winter evenings of the part he took in public transactions, when his "old cap was... 
