The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... mean I am there every night ; but I must expect a great deal of it . I never leave till four , and do not keep a holyday ... means of placing me in a more conspicuous situation , which will knock at my nerves another way , but I wait the ...
... mean I am there every night ; but I must expect a great deal of it . I never leave till four , and do not keep a holyday ... means of placing me in a more conspicuous situation , which will knock at my nerves another way , but I wait the ...
Page 173
... means to him , not merely such things as Oxford and a library of old books : it means a small boy sitting in the gallery of a theatre , and the clerks ( mostly bachelors ) in the shut - up South Sea - House , and the dead pedagogue with ...
... means to him , not merely such things as Oxford and a library of old books : it means a small boy sitting in the gallery of a theatre , and the clerks ( mostly bachelors ) in the shut - up South Sea - House , and the dead pedagogue with ...
Page 211
... mean that ! You can't ! JOHN . Use your common sense , Charles . mean it . Of course I CHARLES ( suddenly turning on him in a flaming rage ) . Mary shall not go to Bedlam ! My God , John , you'd send your own sister to a hell like that ...
... mean that ! You can't ! JOHN . Use your common sense , Charles . mean it . Of course I CHARLES ( suddenly turning on him in a flaming rage ) . Mary shall not go to Bedlam ! My God , John , you'd send your own sister to a hell like that ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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