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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... perhaps you might have clapt a D. at the corner , and let it have past as a printer's mark to the uninitiated , as a delightful hint to the better instructed . As it is , expect a formal criticism on the poems of your female friend ...
... perhaps you might have clapt a D. at the corner , and let it have past as a printer's mark to the uninitiated , as a delightful hint to the better instructed . As it is , expect a formal criticism on the poems of your female friend ...
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... Perhaps it is the worse for being a repetition ; ' Susan ' stood for the representative of poor Rus in Urbe . There was quite enough to stamp the moral of the thing never to be forgotten ; ' bright volumes of vapour , ' & c . The last ...
... Perhaps it is the worse for being a repetition ; ' Susan ' stood for the representative of poor Rus in Urbe . There was quite enough to stamp the moral of the thing never to be forgotten ; ' bright volumes of vapour , ' & c . The last ...
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... he has woven , has perhaps more of what was peculiar in Lamb's cast of thought than anything of the same length which he has left us . TO MR . MANNING . " Dec. 25th , 1815 10 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN 1801 AND 1820. [ BOOK III .
... he has woven , has perhaps more of what was peculiar in Lamb's cast of thought than anything of the same length which he has left us . TO MR . MANNING . " Dec. 25th , 1815 10 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN 1801 AND 1820. [ BOOK III .
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... perhaps ; and if it should be the consecrated season with you , I don't see how you can keep it . You have no turkeys ; you would not desecrate the festival by offering up a withered Chinese bantam , instead of the savoury grand ...
... perhaps ; and if it should be the consecrated season with you , I don't see how you can keep it . You have no turkeys ; you would not desecrate the festival by offering up a withered Chinese bantam , instead of the savoury grand ...
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... death in 1809 married Kenney , by whom she had a considerable family . She lived to a good age , and I have often met her . ] your are now destined , perhaps , to wrap up 12 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN 1801 AND 1820. [ BOOK III .
... death in 1809 married Kenney , by whom she had a considerable family . She lived to a good age , and I have often met her . ] your are now destined , perhaps , to wrap up 12 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN 1801 AND 1820. [ BOOK III .
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