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" Wanting it, what savage unsocial nights must our ancestors have spent, wintering in caves and unillumined fastnesses ! They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for... "
Biographical Essays - Page 181
by Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 288 pages
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The Last Essays of Elia: Being a Sequel to Essays Published Under ..., Part 2

Charles Lamb - Decision making - 1833 - 308 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbour's cheek to be sure that he understood it ? This accounts for the seriousness of the elder...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbour's cheek to be sure that he understood it ? This accounts for the seriousness of the elder...
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Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbour's cheek to be sure that he understood it ? This accounts for the seriousness of the elder...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbour's cheek to be sure that he understood it ? This accounts for the seriousness of the elder...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...They mnst have lam about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbour's cheek to be sure that he understood it? This accounts for the seriousness of the" elder...
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbour's cheek to be sure that he understood it 1 This accounts for the seriousness of the elder...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 18; Volume 40

Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled...neighbor's cheek to be sure that he understood it ? This accounts for the seriousness of the elder poetry. It has a somber cast, (try Hesiod or Ossian,)...
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The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series

Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled...neighbor's cheek to be sure that he understood it ? This accounts for the seriousness of the elder poetry. It has a sombre cast (try Hesiod or Ossian),...
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The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland

Sir Daniel Wilson - Archaeology - 1851 - 776 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbour's cheek to be sure that he understood it ! This accounts for the seriousness of the elder...
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Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials, Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark. What repartees could have passed, when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbour's cheek to be sure that he understood it? This accounts for the seriousness of the elder...
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