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" I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time solitude, and the dark, were my hell. The sufferings I endured in this nature would justify the expression. I never laid my head on my pillow, I suppose, from the fourth to the seventh or eighth... "
Life, Letters, and Writings - Page 235
by Charles Lamb - 1882
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...out, and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The nighttime...things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part,...
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Works of Charles Lamb: Edited and Dramatic Tales, Essays and Critisms

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1876 - 740 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...life — so far as memory serves in things so long mantle!) I owe— not my midnight terrors, the hell of my infancy— but the shape and manner of their...
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Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time,...its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. Iie old Stackhouse then acquitted in part, if I say, that to his picture of the Witch raising up Samuel...
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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems, Etc

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture ! understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. He stands...common-place materials of life, like primeval man with the eome frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part, if I say, that to his picture of...
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Poems and Essays

Charles Lamb - Poetry - 1879 - 672 pages
...destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully nlive to nervous terrors. The night-time, solitude, and...its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. He old Stackhouse then acquitted in part, if I say, that to his picture of the witch raising up Samuel...
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Charles Lamb

Alfred Ainger - Authors, English - 1882 - 212 pages
...books, meat too strong for childish digestion, to which he had free access in his father's collection. " I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre." Lamb was fond both of exaggeration and...
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Charles Lamb

Alfred Ainger - Poets, English - 1882 - 212 pages
...books, meat too strong for childish digestion, to which he had free access in his father's collection. "I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...from the fourth to the seventh or eighth year of my life—so far as memory serves in things so long ago—without an assurance, which realized its own...
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Essays of Elia: Y Charles Lamb; Illustrated by R. Swain Gifford, James D ...

Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pages
...out, and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. That detestable picture ! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The nighttime,...things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part,...
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Essays of Elia: And Other Pieces

Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 pages
...and which was destined to try my childish nerves rather more seriously. — That detestable picture! I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...things so long ago— without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some .frightful spectre. Be old Stackhouse then acquitted in part,...
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Charles Lamb, Volume 1

Alfred Ainger - Biography & Autobiography - 1888 - 256 pages
...books, meat too strong for childish digestion, to which he had free access in his father's collection. " I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time...its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre." Lamb was fond both of exaggeration and of mystification, as we shall see farther on, but this account...
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