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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... thank you . I had rather be a door - keeper in your margin , than have their proudest text swelling with my eulogies . The poems in the volumes , which are new to me , are so much in the old tone , that I hardly received them as ...
... thank you . I had rather be a door - keeper in your margin , than have their proudest text swelling with my eulogies . The poems in the volumes , which are new to me , are so much in the old tone , that I hardly received them as ...
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... Thanks for the books you have given me and for all the books you mean to give me . I will bind up the Political Sonnets ' and ' Ode ' according to your suggestion . I have not bound the poems yet . I wait till people have done borrowing ...
... Thanks for the books you have given me and for all the books you mean to give me . I will bind up the Political Sonnets ' and ' Ode ' according to your suggestion . I have not bound the poems yet . I wait till people have done borrowing ...
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... Thank you kindly for your ticket , though the mournful prognostic which accompanies it certainly renders its permanent pretensions less marketable ; but I trust to hear many a course yet . You excepted Christmas week , by which I ...
... Thank you kindly for your ticket , though the mournful prognostic which accompanies it certainly renders its permanent pretensions less marketable ; but I trust to hear many a course yet . You excepted Christmas week , by which I ...
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... Thank you for that to Walton . I take it as a favour done to me . Being so old a darling of mine , you should bear testimony to his worth in a book containing a dedic- I cannot write the vain word at full length any longer . " If , as ...
... Thank you for that to Walton . I take it as a favour done to me . Being so old a darling of mine , you should bear testimony to his worth in a book containing a dedic- I cannot write the vain word at full length any longer . " If , as ...
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... thanks Allsop for some service which he had promised to perform . ] TO THOMAS ALLSOP . 66 Saturday , Nov. 29 , 1819 . " Dear Sir , -Many thanks for your offer . I have desired the youth to wait upon you , if you will give him leave ...
... thanks Allsop for some service which he had promised to perform . ] TO THOMAS ALLSOP . 66 Saturday , Nov. 29 , 1819 . " Dear Sir , -Many thanks for your offer . I have desired the youth to wait upon you , if you will give him leave ...
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