 THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom...  The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials - Page 482by Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855Full view - About this book
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...love' can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. CHARLES LAMB. 1775-1834. Old Familiar Faces. I have had playmates, I have had...school-days ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. • Detached Thoughts on Books. Books which are no books. THOMAS CAMPBELL. 1777-1844. PLEASURES... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...Talfourd was the last. He could say with the Host in those pathetic lines, after that Host's departure ; " I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking...bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar facet. So let us talk of the old familiar faces, How some have died, some they have left me, And some... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...becomes a very desert to him. The allusion in the latter part of the verses is to Coleridge : — " I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my...bosom cronies All, all are gone, the old familiar faces ! " I loved a love once, fairest among women ; Closed are her doors on me ; I must not see her... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1858 - 142 pages
...eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning ? THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have...bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a love once, fairest among women ; Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her —... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1858 - 420 pages
...friend, a kinder friend has no man ; Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly ; Left him, to muso on the old familiar faces. I have had playmates, I have...bosom cronies— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Ghost-like, I paced round the haunts of my childhood ; Earth seemed a desert I was bound to... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1858 - 264 pages
...we act. panions. Abruptly, suddenly. Traverse, to travel over. Desert, a large barren tract. liking. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my...sitting late, with my bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the'old familiar faces. I loved a love once, fairest among women; Closed are her doors on me, I must... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...earth becomes a very desert to him. The allusion in the latter part of the verses is to Coleridge:— " I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my...bosom cronies : All, all are gone, the old familiar faces ! " I loved a love once, fairest among women ,• Closed are her doors on me; I must not see... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...poetry. His tragedy of "Cato" has always been popular. He died in 1710.] İftr Jfamtlhtr Jfaas. MHAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of...joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. [CHARLES LAMB, the genial friend of Coleridge and Sou they, and the valued associate of the... | |
 | Alison Reid - 1860 - 338 pages
...from that day to this, I have never heard of, nor seen, Miss Priscilla Lambert more. CHAPTER III. " I have had playmates, I have had companions In my days of childhood, in my joyful schooldays." C. LAMB. " On every side the aspect was the same, All rained, desolate, forlorn, and savage." HOOD.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...coldness still returning ; Alas ! the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning. W Wordsworth ccxx THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have...bosom cronies ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a Love once, fairest among women : Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her—... | |
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