The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... kind of whimsical peevishness , or twenty other things which passed over it by turns , I cannot in the least be certain . His sister , whose literary reputation is associated very closely with her brother's , and who , as the original ...
... kind of whimsical peevishness , or twenty other things which passed over it by turns , I cannot in the least be certain . His sister , whose literary reputation is associated very closely with her brother's , and who , as the original ...
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... kind , because it is rather artistic than intellec- tual , depending more than the other on the form it takes , for the full expression of its meaning . It is , in fact , the kind that it is now the fashion to call creative . But there ...
... kind , because it is rather artistic than intellec- tual , depending more than the other on the form it takes , for the full expression of its meaning . It is , in fact , the kind that it is now the fashion to call creative . But there ...
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... kind — not the controversial kind , but the humorously observant and lightly meditative kind . When his writing is farthest from being journalism it is worst ; and where it is at its incom- parable best - in his criticisms of actors and ...
... kind — not the controversial kind , but the humorously observant and lightly meditative kind . When his writing is farthest from being journalism it is worst ; and where it is at its incom- parable best - in his criticisms of actors and ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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