The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... affection , came in after him . She is a small bent figure , evidently a victim to ill- health , and hears with difficulty . think , a fine and handsome one , still full of intelligence and fire . home in our friend's chambers ; one ...
... affection , came in after him . She is a small bent figure , evidently a victim to ill- health , and hears with difficulty . think , a fine and handsome one , still full of intelligence and fire . home in our friend's chambers ; one ...
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... affection which gave all it had and felt that it could not give enough , what other recognition or what fitter acknowledgment could he receive from such as these than their distaste and their contempt ? What they had to give they gave ...
... affection which gave all it had and felt that it could not give enough , what other recognition or what fitter acknowledgment could he receive from such as these than their distaste and their contempt ? What they had to give they gave ...
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... affections . The best of his essays are made up of affectionate memories . He seems to steep his very words in some dye of memory and affection that no other writer has discovered . He is one of those rare sentimentalists that speak out ...
... affections . The best of his essays are made up of affectionate memories . He seems to steep his very words in some dye of memory and affection that no other writer has discovered . He is one of those rare sentimentalists that speak out ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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