 It seemed to embody and realize conceptions which had hitherto assumed no distinct shape. But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing...  The Analectic Magazine - Page 671815Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and...operates upon the mind, to have its free conceptions thus cramp t and pressed down to the measure of a strait-lacing actuality* may be judged from that delightful... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 642 pages
...the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realising an idea, we have only materialised and brought down a fine vision to the standard of...We have let go a dream, in quest of an unattainable substance."'—pp. 99—103. Lamb's antiquarian taste had a really ancient gracefulness about it, that... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that, instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and...operates upon the mind, to have its free conceptions thus cramped and pressed down to the measure of a straight-lacing actuality, may be judged from that delightful... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that, instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and...brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh ami blood. We have let go a dream, in quest of an unattainable substance. How cruelly this operates... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that, instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and...operates upon the mind, to have its free conceptions thus cramped and pressed. down to the measure of a straight-lacing actuality, may be judged from that delightful... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 pages
...juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and...operates upon the mind, to have its free conceptions thus cramped and pressed down to the measure of a strait-lacing actuality, may be judged from that delightful... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that, instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and...operates upon the mind, to have its free conceptions thus cramped and pressed down to the measure of a straight-lacing actuality, may be judged from that delightful... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1864 - 516 pages
...the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realising an idea, wo have only materialised and brought down a fine vision to the standard of...go a dream, in quest of an unattainable substance. ",It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeare are less calculated... | |
 | 1864 - 516 pages
...tbe.novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realising an idea, we have only materialised and brought down a fine vision to the standard of...go a dream, in quest of an unattainable substance. " It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeare are less calculated... | |
 | Literature - 1878 - 920 pages
...such a juvenile pleasure is too high. " When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that, instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and...go a dream, in quest of an unattainable substance." In reading Lamb, we must bear in mind that the part of Hamlet is, probably, better played nowadays... | |
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