 I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends :...  The American Whig Review - Page 5141848Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still ott rjo handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age ; or drop, like mellow fruit, as they say, into the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends...diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They do not willingly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 pages
...and the. sweet securi/y of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived, — I and my friends...diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They do not willingly... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pages
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends...diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They do not willingly... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends...not want to be weaned by age; or drop, like mellow trull, as they say, into the grave. Any alteration, on this earth of mine, in diet or in lodging, puzzles... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 pages
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends...diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They do not willingly... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...sob'tudes, and ;he sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived — I, and my friends,...no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want :o be weaned by age, or drop like mellow fruit, as they say, into the grave. Any alteration on thia... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends...earth of mine, in diet or in lodging, puzzles and dis • composes me. My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.... | |
 | 1858 - 690 pages
...and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here ; I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived — I and my friends : to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. Any alteration on this earth of mine, in diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pages
...solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends...diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood. They do not willingly... | |
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