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The Essays of Elia: 1st Series - Page 161
by Charles Lamb - 1890 - 238 pages
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 11

1822 - 496 pages
...used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old fashioned gardens, which...
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The London Magazine, Volume 5

1822 - 734 pages
...heads would seem to live great house in a sort while she lived, which afterwards came to decay, and again, or I to be turned into marble with them ; how I never could be was nearly pulled down, and all its tired with roaming about that huge old ornaments stripped and carried...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would...wornout hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would...wornout hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken panne'.s, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon .the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I be turned into marble with them; how I never could be tired with roaming about that huge mansion, with...
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The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First series

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Csesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 5; Volume 23

Theology - 1838 - 420 pages
...used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would...them ; how I never could be tired with roaming about the huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms with their worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and...
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The Christian Examiner and General Review

Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1838 - 416 pages
...hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been emperors of Home, till the old marble heads would seem to live again,...them ; how I never could be tired with roaming about the huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms with their worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and...
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The Works of Charles Lamb, Part 2

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 542 pages
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which...
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