Letters of Charles Lamb: With Some Account of the Writer, His Friends and Correspondents, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 2G. Bell, 1886 |
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... night , last night till nine . My business and office business in general have increased so ; I don't mean I am there every night , but I must expect a great deal of it . I never leave till four , and do not keep a holiday now once in ...
... night , last night till nine . My business and office business in general have increased so ; I don't mean I am there every night , but I must expect a great deal of it . I never leave till four , and do not keep a holiday now once in ...
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... Night Piece , ' to which you refer me , I meant fully to 1 Alas ! for moral certainty in this moral but mortal world ! Lamb's resolution to leave off spirituous liquors was a brave one ; but he strengthened and rewarded it by such ...
... Night Piece , ' to which you refer me , I meant fully to 1 Alas ! for moral certainty in this moral but mortal world ! Lamb's resolution to leave off spirituous liquors was a brave one ; but he strengthened and rewarded it by such ...
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... night I am going to leave off tobacco ! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised . The soul hath not her generous aspirings implanted in her in vain . One that you knew , and I think ...
... night I am going to leave off tobacco ! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised . The soul hath not her generous aspirings implanted in her in vain . One that you knew , and I think ...
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... nights shone forth in its greatest lustre . If you did not meet there the favourites of fortune authors whose works bore the highest price in Paternoster Row , and who glittered in the circles of fashion , you might find those who had ...
... nights shone forth in its greatest lustre . If you did not meet there the favourites of fortune authors whose works bore the highest price in Paternoster Row , and who glittered in the circles of fashion , you might find those who had ...
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... night — who have the form of reading men , but , for any possible use reading can be to them but to talk of , might as well have been Ante - Cadmeans born , or have lain sucking out the sense of an Egyptian hieroglyph as long as the ...
... night — who have the form of reading men , but , for any possible use reading can be to them but to talk of , might as well have been Ante - Cadmeans born , or have lain sucking out the sense of an Egyptian hieroglyph as long as the ...
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