The Last Essays of EliaJ.M. Dent and Company, 1903 - 277 pages |
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... wonder , rather than the admiration , of the author . " The Works of Charles Lamb : in Two Volumes " was published in 1818 ; and bears , I think , some evidences of the author's indifference to the whole venture . It contained no prose ...
... wonder , rather than the admiration , of the author . " The Works of Charles Lamb : in Two Volumes " was published in 1818 ; and bears , I think , some evidences of the author's indifference to the whole venture . It contained no prose ...
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... wonder ; but the mild Galba had my love . There they stood in the coldness of death , yet freshness of immortality . Mine too , thy lofty Justice Hall , with its one chair of authority , high - backed and wickered , once the terror of ...
... wonder ; but the mild Galba had my love . There they stood in the coldness of death , yet freshness of immortality . Mine too , thy lofty Justice Hall , with its one chair of authority , high - backed and wickered , once the terror of ...
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... wonder it was to see how , as years went round in heaven - a year in dreams is as a day - continually its white shoulders put forth buds of wings , but , wanting the perfect angelic nutriment , anon was shorn of its aspiring , and fell ...
... wonder it was to see how , as years went round in heaven - a year in dreams is as a day - continually its white shoulders put forth buds of wings , but , wanting the perfect angelic nutriment , anon was shorn of its aspiring , and fell ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | x |
HeadpieceBlakesmoor | 5 |
The terror of luckless poacher | 13 |
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LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA Charles 1775-1834 Lamb,Augustine 1850-1933 Birrell,C. E. (Charles Edmund) 1870-1938 Brock No preview available - 2016 |
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