407 examples of elia in sentences

For forming a truly admirable literary taste, I cannot indeed say much in favor of my own motley collection of books just mentioned, for I was simply tumbled in among them and left to browse, in accordance with Charles Lamb's whimsical plan for Bridget Elia.

The consequence was that at their next meeting Lamb produced the lines, and after much laughing, confessed himself to be Elia.

IV.), a poem of reminiscences of Lamb's early Widford days, printed in Hone's Table-Book, June, 1827, signed Elia.] LETTER 415 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON Enfield, and for some weeks to come, "June 11, 1827.

Lamb subjected Martin's work to a minute analysis a few years later (see the Elia essay on the "Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art," Vol. II.).

See the Elia essay "Blakesmoor in Hshire," in Vol.

In this way he had applied through Lamb to Barton for verses on Pulham's Elia, and had been refused.

ELIA, that "is to go.

O Mr. Hood & Mr. Jerdan there, thine, C (urbanus) L (sylvanus) (ELIA ambo) Inclos'd are verses which Emma sat down to write, her first, on the eve after your departure.

P.G. Patmore's Rejected Articles, 1826, leads off with "An Unsentimental Journey" by Elia which is, except for a fitful superficial imitation of some of Lamb's mannerisms, as unlike him as could well be.

The description of the butterwomen's dress, to which Lamb refers, will illustrate the divergence between Elia and his parodist: Her attire is fashioned as follows: and it differs from all her tribe only in the relative arrangement of its colours.

The style of the Essays of Elia is liable to the charge of a certain mannerism.

Mr. Lamb's literary efforts have procured him civic honours (a thing unheard of in our times), and he has been invited, in his character of ELIA, to dine at a select party with the Lord Mayor.

By the time he came to write the Essays of Elia, he had mastered the personal style so completely that his essays seem simply the overflow of talk.

He was of antiquarian tastes, an ardent playgoer, a lover of whist and of the London streets; and these tastes are reflected in his Essays of Elia, contributed to the London Magazine and reprinted in book form in 1823.

The central and most admirable figure in this particular group of literary men is Charles Lamb; and as each of the other groups clustered around an organ, so at a later period Lamb and his associates supported the "London Magazine," in which the "Essays of Elia" first appeared.

A delightful clergyman he would have been, if he had duly undertaken the office, and one would have walked far to see him in the priestly robe, to hear him chant the service, to receive pastoral advice from him; yet we fear the "Essays of Elia" would have been less admirable than now.

Here the Opium-Eater came, and his cloudy abstract loves and hates and visions were exploded by the sparks of Elia's wit.

Sydney was playing a part in the Whig party, among the advocates of reforms; the sympathies of Elia went for the reform of the United Kingdom, and of the universe, too, if possible,but he was more interested in a profound thought, brought forth from the struggling breast of Hazlitt, than in any bill introduced into Parliament.

It was this strong sympathy with human character which made Elia rather a contemner of the worship of Nature.

The religious character of Sydney Smith was less peculiar than that of Elia.

Elia employed the choicest language of the seventeenth century, and the divine used the plainest English of the day.

The style of the "Essays of Elia" is as admirable as their fancy.

The writings of Sydney Smith rarely attain the perfect grace which uniformly distinguishes Elia; yet he never attempts magnificence, and he so unites brilliancy and plainness as to make his statements seem equally felicitous to the rude and the scholarly ear.

Twenty essays of Elia.

The book will strangely remind the reader of Amory's Life of John Bunclethose queer volumes to which many a reader has been sent by Hazlitt's intoxicating description of them in his Round Table, and a few perhaps by a shy allusion contained in one of the essays of Elia.

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