The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... telling wild stories to children , engrafted on things about them ; wrote letters to people abroad , telling them that a friend of theirs [ Mr. Alsager , the commercial editor of the Times ] had come out in genteel comedy ; and ...
... telling wild stories to children , engrafted on things about them ; wrote letters to people abroad , telling them that a friend of theirs [ Mr. Alsager , the commercial editor of the Times ] had come out in genteel comedy ; and ...
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... tell . She lived with her mother at the cottage called by the strange name of " Blenheims , " but how , or why , Lamb's boyish passion was unrequited- whether his poverty , or the trait of insanity in the family , proved the fatal ...
... tell . She lived with her mother at the cottage called by the strange name of " Blenheims , " but how , or why , Lamb's boyish passion was unrequited- whether his poverty , or the trait of insanity in the family , proved the fatal ...
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... tell you a straightforward story or even a credible one about any matter under the sun . All must be packed up into epigrammatic contrasts , startling exaggerations , claptraps that will get a plaudit from the galleries ! I have heard a ...
... tell you a straightforward story or even a credible one about any matter under the sun . All must be packed up into epigrammatic contrasts , startling exaggerations , claptraps that will get a plaudit from the galleries ! I have heard a ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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