The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... strange and stately as any in Homer . Of all persons near our own time Garrick's name was received with the greatest enthusiasm , who was proposed by Barron Field . He presently superseded both Hogarth and Handel , who had been talked ...
... strange and stately as any in Homer . Of all persons near our own time Garrick's name was received with the greatest enthusiasm , who was proposed by Barron Field . He presently superseded both Hogarth and Handel , who had been talked ...
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... strange moment to select for being grateful . He said once to a brother whist - player , whose hand was more clever than clean , and who had enough in him to afford the joke , " M. , if dirt were trumps , what hands you would hold ...
... strange moment to select for being grateful . He said once to a brother whist - player , whose hand was more clever than clean , and who had enough in him to afford the joke , " M. , if dirt were trumps , what hands you would hold ...
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... strange , Many and strange , that hung about his life ; Still , at the centre of his being , lodged A soul by resignation sanctified : And if too often , self - reproached , he felt That innocence belongs not to our kind , A power that ...
... strange , Many and strange , that hung about his life ; Still , at the centre of his being , lodged A soul by resignation sanctified : And if too often , self - reproached , he felt That innocence belongs not to our kind , A power that ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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