 ... and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding, till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 599edited by - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech ; " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor...are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 348 pages
...were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech; " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor...are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and... | |
 | 1897 - 260 pages
...they were but dream-children, who might have been but never were. 'We are nothing,' they say to him; ' less than nothing and dreams. We are only what might have been, and we must wait upon the tedious shore of Lethe, millions of ages, before we have existence and a name."... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - 530 pages
...were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech: " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor...are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 pages
...were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor...are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing ; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 pages
...were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice 1 Alice Winterton, the name under which Lamb alludes in his essays to his first love, Ann Simmons.... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 324 pages
...were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice 1 Alice Winterton, the name under which Lamb alludes in his essays to his first love, Ann Simmons.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 668 pages
...features were seen in the uttermost distance, which without speech strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : — " We are not of Alice, nor of thee,...are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing, less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : "We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor...are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing ; less than nothing, and is dreams. We are only what might have been,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1898 - 308 pages
...features were seen in the uttermost distance, which without speech strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : ' We are not of Alice nor of thee, nor...children of Alice call Bartram father. We are nothing and less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious... | |
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