Letters of Charles Lamb: With Some Account of the Writer, His Friends and Correspondents, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1886 |
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... English poetry written since the days of Milton . 1 [ Now in the National Portrait Gallery . Lamb originally intended , when his brother John gave it to him , to leave it to Wordsworth , but eventually made it a wedding present to Mrs ...
... English poetry written since the days of Milton . 1 [ Now in the National Portrait Gallery . Lamb originally intended , when his brother John gave it to him , to leave it to Wordsworth , but eventually made it a wedding present to Mrs ...
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... English . Bless him ! Latin wasn't good enough for him . Why wasn't he content with the language which Gay and Prior wrote in ? • I " I am almost sorry that you printed extracts from those first poems , or that you did not print them at ...
... English . Bless him ! Latin wasn't good enough for him . Why wasn't he content with the language which Gay and Prior wrote in ? • I " I am almost sorry that you printed extracts from those first poems , or that you did not print them at ...
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... English I hear that not such a thing as a counting - house is to be seen in her streets , -scarce a desk . Earthquakes swallow up this mercantile city and its ' gripple merchants , ' as Drayton hath it - born to be the curse of this ...
... English I hear that not such a thing as a counting - house is to be seen in her streets , -scarce a desk . Earthquakes swallow up this mercantile city and its ' gripple merchants , ' as Drayton hath it - born to be the curse of this ...
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... English characters , from some old English ballad , ' What is good for a bootless bene ? ' suggests Miss Lamb's pun . [ She made one other , at least , on the occasion of Munden's retirement - sic transit gloria Munden ! ] The following ...
... English characters , from some old English ballad , ' What is good for a bootless bene ? ' suggests Miss Lamb's pun . [ She made one other , at least , on the occasion of Munden's retirement - sic transit gloria Munden ! ] The following ...
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... English Opera , became a frequent guest in Russell Street , and charmed the circle there by the heartiness of her manners , the deli- cacy and gentleness of her remarks , and her unaffected sen- sibility , as much as she had done on the ...
... English Opera , became a frequent guest in Russell Street , and charmed the circle there by the heartiness of her manners , the deli- cacy and gentleness of her remarks , and her unaffected sen- sibility , as much as she had done on the ...
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