The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... sweet and uncreated things ; And yet thy themes thy gentle worth enhances ! Then wake again thy wild harp's tenderest strings . Sing on , sweet Bard , let fairy loves again 102 THE ELIAN MISCELLANY.
... sweet and uncreated things ; And yet thy themes thy gentle worth enhances ! Then wake again thy wild harp's tenderest strings . Sing on , sweet Bard , let fairy loves again 102 THE ELIAN MISCELLANY.
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... sweet , sweet is this human life , So sweet , I fain would breathe it still : Your chilly stars I can forego , This warm kind world is all I know . " Well ! it may be that there is here a lack of " sound religious feeling , " but , for ...
... sweet , sweet is this human life , So sweet , I fain would breathe it still : Your chilly stars I can forego , This warm kind world is all I know . " Well ! it may be that there is here a lack of " sound religious feeling , " but , for ...
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... sweet tune , from out the mouth of a half bright , half black tea - kettle , on a December evening fire . But above all I hate it , when , as I have chanced to see it once or twice , it gets possession ( like a bad demon ) of some other ...
... sweet tune , from out the mouth of a half bright , half black tea - kettle , on a December evening fire . But above all I hate it , when , as I have chanced to see it once or twice , it gets possession ( like a bad demon ) of some other ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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