 | 1893 - 866 psl.
...at heart a citizen. Even in writing to Wordsworth he is not afraid to confess : — I don't now care if I never see a mountain in my life. I have passed all my days in London, until I haw found us many anil intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 820 psl.
...that the wonderful immensity of London consists." Charles Lamb, writing to Wordsworth, said : — " I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and as intense local attachments as any of your mountaineers can have done with dead nature. I often shed... | |
 | John W. Crawford - 1978 - 216 psl.
...Letter to Wordsworth (l8Ol) he almost apotheosizes them: l have passed all my days in London, until l have formed as many and intense local attachments...Fleet Street; the innumerable trades, tradesmen and customer, coaches, wagons, playhouses; all the bustle and wickedness round about Convent Garden; the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 psl.
...English poet London is a roost for every bird. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister I have passed all my days in London, until I have...innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses, all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden, the very women of the... | |
 | Bruce Mazlish - 1989 - 348 psl.
...friends and contemporaries took a different view. Charles Lamb wrote to Wordsworth, "I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life. I have passed...you mountaineers can have done with dead Nature." William Hazlitt wrote that Mr. Wordsworth "represents men in cities as so many wild beasts or evil... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 psl.
...author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson, entry, Sept. 20, 1777(1791). 6 I have passed all my days in London, until I have...innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses, all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden, the very women of the... | |
 | John Plotz - 2000 - 282 psl.
...effect the city could have on its inhabitants: I don't much care if I never see a mounta1n 1n my l1fe. I have passed all my days in London, until I have...formed as many and intense local attachments as any of your Mountaineers can have done, with dead nature. The impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street,... | |
 | Rupert Christiansen - 2002 - 298 psl.
...Londoner Charles Lamb to those inveterate rural sentimentalists Dorothy and William Wordsworth in 1801. The lighted Shops of the Strand and Fleet Street,...innumerable trades, tradesmen and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses, all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden, the very women of the... | |
 | Yi-fu Tuan - 1986 - 204 psl.
...Lake District. Lamb declined with a letter (dated January 30, 1801), which has since become famous: I have passed all my days in London until I have formed...innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses; all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden; the very women of the... | |
 | Simon Joyce, Professor Simon Joyce - 2003 - 288 psl.
...Lamb—who, like TS Eliot, spent his early working years as a clerk in the city—declared in 1801 that "I have passed all my days in London, until I have...as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature";'9 writing to John and Leigh Hunt's The Reflector ten years later, he extends the thought by... | |
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead Nature. The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street; the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers,... 
