 I — not the old impostor — should take in eating her cake — the cursed ingratitude by which, under the colour of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think I never...  The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion - Page 831837Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 270 pages
...and took it to heart so grievously, that I think' I never suffered the like. And I was right;—it was a piece of unfeeling hypocrisy, and proved a lesson...after. The cake has long been masticated, consigned to the dunghill, with the ashes of that unseasonable pauper. " But when Providence, who is better to us... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 274 pages
...by which, under the colour of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think I never suffered the like. And I was right;—it was a piece of unfeeling hypocrisy,'and proved a lesson to me ever after. The cake has... | |
 | 1837 - 224 pages
...by which, under the color of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I iobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think...masticated, consigned to dunghill with the ashes of that unseasonabl• pauper ! " But when Providence, who is better to us all than our aunts, gives me a pig,... | |
 | 1837 - 666 pages
...by which, under the colour of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think...It was a piece of unfeeling hypocrisy, and proved a ICMOU to mc ever after. The cake has long been masticated, consigned to dunghill with the ashes of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1837 - 868 pages
...by which, under the color of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think I never suffered the like — a nd I was right. It was a piece of unfeeling hypocrisy, and proved a lesson to me ever after.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...by which, under the colour of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think I never suffered the like—and I was right. It was a piece of unfeeling hypocrisy, and proved a lesson to me evet after.... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 628 pages
...by which, under the colour of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think...a lesson to me ever after. The cake has long been masticatrd, consigned to dunghill with the abhes of that unseasonable pauper. " But when Providence,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pages
...by which, under the colour of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think...after. The cake has long been masticated, consigned to the dunghill, with the ashes of that unseasonable pauper. " But when Providence, who is better to us... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it tu heart so grievously, that I think I never suflertO the like—and I was right. It was a piece- of unfeeling hypocrisy,...and proved a lesson to me ever after. The cake has loner be^ii masticated, consigned to dunghill with tiie ashes of that unseasonable pauper. " But when... | |
 | 1872 - 742 pages
...by which, under the colours of Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose. I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously, that I think...right. It was a piece of unfeeling hypocrisy, and it proved a lesson to me ever after."1 This bears out what was before insisted on, that in viewing... | |
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