...life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. CHARLES LAMB. 1775-1834. Old Familiar Faces. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my...school-days ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. • Detached Thoughts on Books. Books which are no books. THOMAS CAMPBELL. 1777-1844. PLEASURES...

...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...

...this case ; .What so blindly, and unkindly, It destroyed, it now does grace. THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my...cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man ; Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly ; Left him,...

...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 had companions, In my...among women ; Closed are her doors on me, I must not sec her — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man...

...no man ; Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly ; Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my...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...

...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...

...poetry. His tragedy of "Cato" has always been popular. He died in 1710.] ©ftr 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...

...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....

...HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of cluldhood, in. my joyful school* days ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sittiug late, with my bosom cronies ; All, all arc gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a love once,...

...my Soul in a moment." And again, there is a tender, plaintive music in Charles Lamb's poom : — " I have had playmates, I have had companions In my...school-days ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces." Literary Notices. 233 Other examples might be recalled, but these are sufficient to remind...