 Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life. 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 46 dead nature.  On Writing and Writers - Page 93by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 221 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1838 - 716 pages
...NUMBER II. THE CITY AND THE COUNTRY. " I HAyE passed all my days in London, until I have formed so many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature. * * * The wonder of these sights impels me into night walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears... | |
 | 1893 - 846 pages
...citizen. Even in writing to Wordsworth he is not afraid to confess : — I don't now care if I never sec a mountain in my life. I have passed all my days in London, until I have found as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...himself out of it. " Separate from the pleasure of your company," he wrote to Wordsworth, in 1801, " I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my...mountaineers can have done with dead nature. . . . The wonder of these (metropolitan) sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...ever be able to afford so desperate a journey. Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't now care if I never see a mountain in my life. I have passed alt my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers... | |
 | Thomas Cooke - 1855 - 236 pages
...could gang any where ; but I am afraid whether 1 shall ever be able to afford so desperate a journey. Separate from the pleasure of your company, I dont...mountain in my life. I have passed all my days in London, and until I have formed as many and as intense local attachments, as any of you mountaineers can have... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1861 - 696 pages
...at home in ermuU !"f He answers an invitation of Wordsworth's to visit Cumberland by saying that, " Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't...never see a mountain in my life. I have passed all ray days in London, until I have formed ae many and intense local attachments, as any of you mountaineers... | |
 | 1867 - 568 pages
...ever be able to afford so desperate a journey. Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't now care if I never see a mountain in my life. I have...formed as many and intense local attachments as any of your mountaineers can have done with dead nature. The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street,... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - 1867 - 232 pages
...declined, and in his reply threw out some very material points in Ms character. " Separate," he says, " from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life. . . My attachments are all local, purely local — I have no passion to groves and valleys. The rooms... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...could gang anywhere ; but I am afraid whether I shall ever be able to afford so desperate a journey. Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a • Lamb aflerwird.% in sonic melancholy mood, destroyed all Coleridge's letter*, and wiw !» vexed... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...ever be able to afford so desperate a journey. Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't now care if I never see a mountain in my life. I have...intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers ( 1 ) Observe the mysterious grandeur of this sentence . and the striking rhetorical effect of the... | |
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