The Best of LambMethuen & Company, Limited, 1951 - 192 pages |
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... Christ's Hospital , where he gained a knowledge of Latin and the love of his school - fellow Coleridge . After a brief period at the South Sea House he entered the East India Company's service and remained there for many years . On ...
... Christ's Hospital , where he gained a knowledge of Latin and the love of his school - fellow Coleridge . After a brief period at the South Sea House he entered the East India Company's service and remained there for many years . On ...
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... Christ's Hospital , where I was deputy Grecian ; and the same subordination and deference to him I have preserved through a life - long acquaintance . Great in his writings , he was greatest in his conversation . In him was disproved ...
... Christ's Hospital , where I was deputy Grecian ; and the same subordination and deference to him I have preserved through a life - long acquaintance . Great in his writings , he was greatest in his conversation . In him was disproved ...
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... Christ's Hospital , a wit of the first magnitude , but had rather be thought a gentle- man , like Congreve . You know Congreve's repulse which he gave to Voltaire , when he came to visit him as a literary man , that he wished to be ...
... Christ's Hospital , a wit of the first magnitude , but had rather be thought a gentle- man , like Congreve . You know Congreve's repulse which he gave to Voltaire , when he came to visit him as a literary man , that he wished to be ...
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