 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 - Page 4041907Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1904 - 460 pages
...our farewell benefit in our turn. LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA XXII. 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. AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with this... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 304 pages
...Essays, III. 305-7. 212. Lord Foppington. — In Congreve's comedy, The Relapse, Lord Foppington says : " To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...man of quality and breeding may be much amused with his own." PAGE 212. OF MAID MARIAN, ETC. — This paper and its additional note appeared in Hone's... | |
 | Books and reading - 1908 - 408 pages
...Philobiblon. — Translated by Ernest Chester Thomas. DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING CHARLES LAMB " To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1909 - 366 pages
...summer-house." 1 Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the eminent financier. 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. 5 AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with this... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - Anthologies - 1911 - 452 pages
...a fresh paragraph and a mouthful of salad ? — JH LEIGH HUNT. My Books. A CATHOLIC TASTE IN BOOKS To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. Lord Fappirujton in ' The Relapse ' . AN ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck with this... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 344 pages
...they shall celebrate thy praise. DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING To mind the inside of a hook is to entertain one's self with the forced product...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... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - English essays - 1913 - 614 pages
...friends still — close the catalogue of Grecians in my time. DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's...brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may bo much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. — Lord Foppington, in ' The Relapse '. AN ingenious... | |
 | Library science - 1914 - 632 pages
...Relapse, exclaim: "To mind the in sides of a book is to entertain oneself with the forced products of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality...much amused with the natural sprouts of his own;" or to those who resemble the lover of books described by Pope In the lines: "In books, not authors,... | |
 | Books and reading - 1914 - 200 pages
...entertain one's self with the foned product of another man's bratn. Ntrw I thtnk a mutt of qualtty and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his mon. — Lord !''oppin^ton in"'I'hc Relapse." AN INGENIOUS ACQUAINTANCE OF my own was so much struck... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 376 pages
...DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING 1822 [Published in the July number of the London Magazine.] 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... | |
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