 | John Timbs - Humorists - 1874 - 360 pages
...to me that he had long been on the confines of the next world — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men and things, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 466 pages
...me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But, since....he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1881 - 892 pages
...ha would lay open the last recesses of his heart. So in respect of the death of hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But, since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 466 pages
...me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 216 pages
...to me that he had long been on the confines of the next world — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve ; but since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...to me that he had long been on the confines of the next world — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve ; but since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 430 pages
...to me that he had long been on the confines of the next world — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve ; but since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
 | F L. Clarke - Best friends - 1884 - 278 pages
...to me that he had long been on the confines of the next world — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve ; but since,...he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning... | |
| |
When I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he... 
