land-fancies

Updated: May 26, 2025

How busily didst thou ply thy multifarious occupation, cook, mariner, attendant, chamberlain; here, there, like another Ariel, flaming at once about all parts of the deck, yet with kindlier ministrations not to assist the tempest, but, as if touched with a kindred sense of our infirmities, to soothe the qualms which that untried motion might haply raise in our crude land-fancies.

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 : Elia and The Last Essays of Elia