 School, has been very kind to us, and we have no other friend ; but, thank God, I am very calm and composed, and able to do the best that remains to do. Write as religious a letter as possible, but no mention of what is gone and done with. With me "the...  The Living Age - Page 3961848Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1888 - 396 pages
...Bluecoat School, has been very very kind to us, and we have no other friend ; but, thank God, I am very calm and composed, and able to do the best that remains...something more to do than to feel. God Almighty have us all in His keeping ! C. LAMB. Mention nothing of poetry. I have destroyed every vestige of past vanities... | |
 | 1888 - 646 pages
...have my judgment, I believe, very sound. Write as religious a letter as possible," he continues, " but no mention of what is gone and done with. With...away,' and I have something more to do than to feel." Such was the terrible plight in which Lamb found himself as he stood on the threshold of manhood. The... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 pages
...have my judgment, I believe, very sound. Write as religious a letter as possible," he continues, " but no mention of what is gone and done with. With...away,' and I have something more to do than to feel." Such was the terrible plight in which Lamb found himself as he stood on the threshold of manhood. The... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1888 - 256 pages
...very kind to us, and we have no other friend ; but, thank God, I am very calm and composed, and ahle to do the best that remains to do. Write as religious a letter as possible, hut no mention of what is gone and done with. With me the " former things are passed away," and I have... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1889 - 258 pages
...sound. My poor father was slightly wounded, and I am left to take care of him and of my aunt. . . . With me ' the former things are passed away,' and I have something more to do than to feel." Severe self-mastery is perceived in every word of this letter. Lamb was evidently sensible that his... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1904 - 376 pages
...hospital. My poor father was slightly wounded. God has preserved to me my sense*. Write as religions a letter as possible, but no mention of what is gone and done with." And only a day after this, the weak old father, with his plastered head, is playing cribbage ; and... | |
 | 1891 - 518 pages
...very sound. My poor father was slightly wounded and I am left to take care of him and my aunt .... write as religious a letter as possible, but no mention...away and I have something more to do than to feel. Mention nothing of poetry. I have destroyed every vestige of past vanities of that kind." Undated.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 366 pages
...Blue-coat School, has been very kind to us, and we have no other friend ; but, thank God, I am very calm and composed, and able to do the best that remains...something more to do than to feel. God Almighty have us all in his keeping ! C. LAMB. Mention nothing of poetry. I have destroyed ery vestige of past vanities... | |
 | Alice Emma Sauerwein Lord - 1893 - 400 pages
...very sound. My poor father was slightly wounded, and I am left to take care of him and my aunt. . . . Write as religious a letter as possible, but no mention...to feel. God Almighty have us well in His keeping. . . . Mention nothing of poetry ; I have destroyed every vestige of vanities of that kind, . . . "... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 220 pages
...preserved me my senses : I eat, and drink, and sleep, and have my judgment, I believe, very sound. . . . Write as religious a letter as possible, but no mention...passed away,' and I have something more to do than feel." Small Wonder the scene of such terrible calamities grew increasingly distasteful to the brother... | |
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