Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 1 |
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It is a piece of good fortune for ours that he still lives and teaches , NOT " POOR CHARLES LAMB . " Carlyle speaks of Lamb's " proclivity to gin . ” People used to try to get away from it , smooth it over . It is wiser now to admit not ...
It is a piece of good fortune for ours that he still lives and teaches , NOT " POOR CHARLES LAMB . " Carlyle speaks of Lamb's " proclivity to gin . ” People used to try to get away from it , smooth it over . It is wiser now to admit not ...
Page 213
It is said that it was a blind piper ; but , as John told me , the fellow was not blind , but an ignorant , weak , poor man , and usually walked his rounds about ten o'clock at night and went piping along from door to door , and the ...
It is said that it was a blind piper ; but , as John told me , the fellow was not blind , but an ignorant , weak , poor man , and usually walked his rounds about ten o'clock at night and went piping along from door to door , and the ...
Page 278
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him , that states of native strength possest , Tho ' very poor , may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay , As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ...
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him , that states of native strength possest , Tho ' very poor , may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay , As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ...
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