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Page 21
He was lord of his library , and seldom cared for looking out beyond his domains .
The healing influence of studious pursuits was upon him , to soothe and to
abstract . He was almost a healthy man ; when the waywardness of his fate broke
out ...
He was lord of his library , and seldom cared for looking out beyond his domains .
The healing influence of studious pursuits was upon him , to soothe and to
abstract . He was almost a healthy man ; when the waywardness of his fate broke
out ...
Page 38
My conceit of his person , ” — it is Ben Jonson speaking of Lord Bacon , — " was
never increased towards him by his place or honours , but I have , and do
reverence him for the greatness , that was only proper to himself ; in that he
seemed to ...
My conceit of his person , ” — it is Ben Jonson speaking of Lord Bacon , — " was
never increased towards him by his place or honours , but I have , and do
reverence him for the greatness , that was only proper to himself ; in that he
seemed to ...
Page 42
Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural
sprouts of his own Lord Poppington in the Relapse . A N ingenious acquaintance
of my own was so much A struck with this bright sally of his Lordship , - that he ...
Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural
sprouts of his own Lord Poppington in the Relapse . A N ingenious acquaintance
of my own was so much A struck with this bright sally of his Lordship , - that he ...
Page 67
How the patient lords it there ; what caprices he acts without controul ! how king -
like he sways his pillow - tumbling , and tossing , and shifting , and lowering , and
thumping , and flatting , and moulding it , to the ever varying requisitions of his ...
How the patient lords it there ; what caprices he acts without controul ! how king -
like he sways his pillow - tumbling , and tossing , and shifting , and lowering , and
thumping , and flatting , and moulding it , to the ever varying requisitions of his ...
Page 75
... persons shall be a Lord Glendamour and a Miss Rivers , and the scene only
alternate between Bath and Bond Street — a more bewildering dreaminess
induced upon him , than he has felt wandering over all the fairy grounds of
Spenser .
... persons shall be a Lord Glendamour and a Miss Rivers , and the scene only
alternate between Bath and Bond Street — a more bewildering dreaminess
induced upon him , than he has felt wandering over all the fairy grounds of
Spenser .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Last Essays of Elia |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Dent, 1901 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 254 pages |
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