The excerpts, he said, "had a clarity and vividness which I envy".
Off with that happy busk, which I envy, That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
During this time Beebe was also forming a close friendship with Winnie-the-Pooh's creator A. A. Milne, who wrote of Half Mile Down "I don't know which I envy you most: all those moral and physical qualities which you have and I lack, or all that wonder of a new world.
"I had a friend called Tommy Curtiss who lived on the West Side, and he used to come to school in a big red Rolls-Royce, which I envied.
On the top floor is Neruda's tiny writing room, which I envied for its view of the ocean, rich wooden furniture and a life-sized photo of Walt Whitman, a writer he admired.
"He has this great love of life, which I rather envy, because I think I may be deficient in that respect.
Judith Thurman I was laid up for ten weeks this summer, and couldn't leave the house, so I had that perverse luxury, for which I used to envy patrician invalids of the nineteenth century, of lying on my divan, with the shades drawn, and a book.
As a European, I envy the First Amendment, which gives a special status to free speech.
But I envy the confidence with which Lynes could describe Lapidus as a provincial.
But whatever her job is, she is universally agreed to be very good at it, and very well paid, not only with money but - and this is the point at which I start hyperventilating with envy - with a permanent suite at the Paris Ritz.
The biggest news were the EliteBook and Voodoo Envy, which I covered yesterday.
