The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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Page 86
... leave Lamb to find his way alone , had no choice but to take a hackney coach , drive to Islington , where he had a vague notion that Lamb resided , and trust to inquiry to discover the house . This he accomplished , but only after some ...
... leave Lamb to find his way alone , had no choice but to take a hackney coach , drive to Islington , where he had a vague notion that Lamb resided , and trust to inquiry to discover the house . This he accomplished , but only after some ...
Page 187
... leave ! " That could not easily be beaten . Lamb , however , did not consider that his best thing . We have it on evidence that he thought his not too kindly remark to his friend Hume on the size of Hume's family his best joke ; but I ...
... leave ! " That could not easily be beaten . Lamb , however , did not consider that his best thing . We have it on evidence that he thought his not too kindly remark to his friend Hume on the size of Hume's family his best joke ; but I ...
Page 207
... leave me too much alone , Charles . CHARLES . But didn't George Dyer come to sit with you ? MR . LAMB . George Dyer ? Oh , yes - he came . But I might just as well have been alone . You know - I think that man is mad , Charles . CHARLES ...
... leave me too much alone , Charles . CHARLES . But didn't George Dyer come to sit with you ? MR . LAMB . George Dyer ? Oh , yes - he came . But I might just as well have been alone . You know - I think that man is mad , Charles . CHARLES ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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