 There was Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one...  Eliza Cook's Journal - Page 35edited by - 1850Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 492 pages
...the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes a question with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1836 - 540 pages
...the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with... | |
 | 1836 - 492 pages
...the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Home Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Horne Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does." Home Tooke was a master of the intellectual foils ; so were... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Authors, English - 1849 - 270 pages
...wisdom. It was justly said of him by Hazlitt, " his serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words."... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 pages
...wisdom. It was justly said of him by Hazlitt, " His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words."... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - Authors - 1866 - 284 pages
...the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine piquant deep eloquent things, in half a dozen sentences, as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1868 - 274 pages
...the best remark in the course 01 the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine piquant, deep, eloquent things, in half a dozen sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears ; and he probes a question by a play... | |
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