The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... interest . To him who does not , they will seem dull and idle . Wreck as he certainly is , and must be , however , of what he was , I would rather have seen him for that single hour than the hundred - and - one sights of London put ...
... interest . To him who does not , they will seem dull and idle . Wreck as he certainly is , and must be , however , of what he was , I would rather have seen him for that single hour than the hundred - and - one sights of London put ...
Page 274
... interest across the table at the young writer beneath whose affectations of manner there seemed to him to lie so much unaffected sensibility , and speculates on " what sudden growth of another interest " would have changed his mood ...
... interest across the table at the young writer beneath whose affectations of manner there seemed to him to lie so much unaffected sensibility , and speculates on " what sudden growth of another interest " would have changed his mood ...
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... interest " in literature ! Lamb was the contemporary of a group of admirable English writers , most of whom were deeply absorbed in the discussion of really momentous and fruitful new ideas on weighty matters of politics , morals or ...
... interest " in literature ! Lamb was the contemporary of a group of admirable English writers , most of whom were deeply absorbed in the discussion of really momentous and fruitful new ideas on weighty matters of politics , morals or ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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