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... took it , he would say , as a solvent of speech . Marry - as the friendly vapour ascended , how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it ! the liga- ments which tongue - tied him , were loosened , and the stammerer proceeded a ...
... took it , he would say , as a solvent of speech . Marry - as the friendly vapour ascended , how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it ! the liga- ments which tongue - tied him , were loosened , and the stammerer proceeded a ...
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... took occasion in the course of the evening , when some argument had intervened between them , to utter with an emphasis which chilled the company , and which chills me now as I write it- " Woman , you are superannuated . " John Billet ...
... took occasion in the course of the evening , when some argument had intervened between them , to utter with an emphasis which chilled the company , and which chills me now as I write it- " Woman , you are superannuated . " John Billet ...
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... took him for ? We saw all the common symptoms of the malady upon him ; the quivering lip , the cowering knees , the teeth chattering ; and could have sworn " that man was frightened . " But we forgot all the while - or kept it almost a ...
... took him for ? We saw all the common symptoms of the malady upon him ; the quivering lip , the cowering knees , the teeth chattering ; and could have sworn " that man was frightened . " But we forgot all the while - or kept it almost a ...
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... proud day to me he took his roast mutton with us in the Temple , to which I had superadded a pre- liminary haddock . After a rather plentiful par- taking of the meagre banquet , not unrefreshed with the ELLISTONIANA . 35.
... proud day to me he took his roast mutton with us in the Temple , to which I had superadded a pre- liminary haddock . After a rather plentiful par- taking of the meagre banquet , not unrefreshed with the ELLISTONIANA . 35.
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... took thee back to thy latest exercise of imagi- nation , to the days when , undreaming of Theatres and Managerships , thou wert a scholar , and an early ripe one , under the roofs builded by the munificent and pious Colet . For thee the ...
... took thee back to thy latest exercise of imagi- nation , to the days when , undreaming of Theatres and Managerships , thou wert a scholar , and an early ripe one , under the roofs builded by the munificent and pious Colet . For thee the ...
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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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