The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... never tries to be clever ; he never in the slightest degree lords it over those who have delivered themselves into his hand by showing him their works . What he criticises and how he can help it are everything , his own glory as critic ...
... never tries to be clever ; he never in the slightest degree lords it over those who have delivered themselves into his hand by showing him their works . What he criticises and how he can help it are everything , his own glory as critic ...
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... never design to treat them in their totality , for I never see the whole of anything , nor do those see it who promise to show it to me . In general I love to seize things by some unwonted lustre . " There , in the two greatest of the ...
... never design to treat them in their totality , for I never see the whole of anything , nor do those see it who promise to show it to me . In general I love to seize things by some unwonted lustre . " There , in the two greatest of the ...
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... never seen thy like in the sixty long years that have gone since thou didst leave the world - so much the poorer for thy passing ; and I wot well that we shall never look upon thy like again . Humourists we have had amongst us , and ...
... never seen thy like in the sixty long years that have gone since thou didst leave the world - so much the poorer for thy passing ; and I wot well that we shall never look upon thy like again . Humourists we have had amongst us , and ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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