| Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall, how many times ! 10 to the astoundment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...effaced sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, 15 seeming coevals with that Time which they measured, a-nd to take their revelations of its flight... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1901 - 412 pages
...rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places?— these are my oldest recollections. . . . What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials,...heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain of 69 light ! How would the dark line steal imperceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager to... | |
| Emily Constance Baird Cook - London (England) - 1903 - 510 pages
...rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places? — these are my oldest recollections .... What an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials,...correspondence with the fountain of light ! How would the dark lini. steal imperceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager to detect its movement, never... | |
| Charles Lamb - English literature - 1904 - 460 pages
...where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall, how many times ! to the astound1 5 ment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...coevals with that Time which they measured, and to 20 take their revelations of its flight immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain... | |
| Charles Lamb - English essays - 1905 - 352 pages
...where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall, how many times ! to the astound15 ment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...coevals with that Time which they measured, and to 20 take their revelations of its flight immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pages
...where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall, how many times ! to the astound25 ment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...coevals with that Time which they measured, and to 30 take their revelations of its flight immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain... | |
| Charles Lamb - English Essays - 1908 - 364 pages
...plays, which I have made to rise and fall, how many times ! to the astoundment of the young urchins,'my contemporaries; who, not being able to guess at its...as magic ! What an antique air had the now almost efi'aced sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that Time which they measured,... | |
| Charles Lamb - History - 1910 - 352 pages
...hall, where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall, how many times! to the astoundment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not being able to guess at its recon- 15 dite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic ! What an antique... | |
| Charles Lamb - English essays - 1911 - 348 pages
...hall, where the fountain plays, which I have made to rise and fall, how many times! to the astoundment of the young urchins, my contemporaries, who, not...holding correspondence with the fountain of light! i" How would the dark line steal imperceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager to detect... | |
| William Snow Rogers - Gardening - 1911 - 450 pages
...old-world charm of the sundial is well expressed by Charles Lamb in his meditation on the Temple dial: "What an antique air had the now almost effaced sundials...inscriptions, seeming coevals with that time which they Fig. 91. — Stone sundials measured, and to take their revelation of its flight immediately from heaven.... | |
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