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Page xii
... pleasant sailor which Bannister gives us ' Tailpiece - On some of the old actors Headpiece On the artificial comedy of the last century Tailpiece- do . Headpiece - On the acting of Munden do PAGE 244 247 253 256 262 263 270 277 280 281 ...
... pleasant sailor which Bannister gives us ' Tailpiece - On some of the old actors Headpiece On the artificial comedy of the last century Tailpiece- do . Headpiece - On the acting of Munden do PAGE 244 247 253 256 262 263 270 277 280 281 ...
Page xv
... pleasant thing when we find ourselves saying of Charles Lamb , that it is impossible to know whether we most admire the author , or love the man . The imaginary Elia , sitting by the side of his Cousin Bridget , playing sick whist ...
... pleasant thing when we find ourselves saying of Charles Lamb , that it is impossible to know whether we most admire the author , or love the man . The imaginary Elia , sitting by the side of his Cousin Bridget , playing sick whist ...
Page xvii
... pleasant confessions . No boy ever profited more , or lost less , by an old - fashioned education than Lamb . His head , so he tells us , had not many mansions , nor spacious , but he had imagination , taste , and spirit , and he ...
... pleasant confessions . No boy ever profited more , or lost less , by an old - fashioned education than Lamb . His head , so he tells us , had not many mansions , nor spacious , but he had imagination , taste , and spirit , and he ...
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... pleasant fellows , full of chat and not a few among them had arrived at con- siderable proficiency on the German flute . The cashier at that time was one Evans , a Cambro- Briton . He had something of the choleric complexion of his ...
... pleasant fellows , full of chat and not a few among them had arrived at con- siderable proficiency on the German flute . The cashier at that time was one Evans , a Cambro- Briton . He had something of the choleric complexion of his ...
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... pleasant anecdote , derived from paternal tradition , of those grotesque figures which Hogarth has immortalized in his picture of Noon , -the worthy de- scendants of those heroic confessors , who , flying to this country , from the ...
... pleasant anecdote , derived from paternal tradition , of those grotesque figures which Hogarth has immortalized in his picture of Noon , -the worthy de- scendants of those heroic confessors , who , flying to this country , from the ...
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