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And how shall the intenser dramatist escape being faulty , who , doubtless ,
under cover of passion uttered by another , oftentimes gives blame . less vent to
his most inward feelings , and expresses his own story modestly ? My late friend
was ...
And how shall the intenser dramatist escape being faulty , who , doubtless ,
under cover of passion uttered by another , oftentimes gives blame . less vent to
his most inward feelings , and expresses his own story modestly ? My late friend
was ...
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BLAKESMOOR IN H - SHIRE . DO not know a pleasure more affecting than to
range at will over the deserted apartments of some fine old family mansion . The
traces of extinct grandeur admit of a better passion than envy : and
contemplations ...
BLAKESMOOR IN H - SHIRE . DO not know a pleasure more affecting than to
range at will over the deserted apartments of some fine old family mansion . The
traces of extinct grandeur admit of a better passion than envy : and
contemplations ...
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... fashion , deliberately divesting of Marsyas . Then , that haunted room - in which
old Mrs. Battle died - whereinto I have crept , but always in the day time , with a
passion of fear ; and a sneaking curiosity , terror - tainted , to hold communication
...
... fashion , deliberately divesting of Marsyas . Then , that haunted room - in which
old Mrs. Battle died - whereinto I have crept , but always in the day time , with a
passion of fear ; and a sneaking curiosity , terror - tainted , to hold communication
...
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So strange a passion for the place possessed me in those years , that , though
there lay - I shame to say how few roods distant from the mansion - half hid by
trees , what I judged some romantic lake , such was the spell which bound me to
the ...
So strange a passion for the place possessed me in those years , that , though
there lay - I shame to say how few roods distant from the mansion - half hid by
trees , what I judged some romantic lake , such was the spell which bound me to
the ...
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W- went , sore with these notions , to Oxford , where the dignity and sweetness of
a scholar's life , meeting with the alloy of a humble introduction , wrought in him a
passionate devotion to the place , with a profound aversion from the society .
W- went , sore with these notions , to Oxford , where the dignity and sweetness of
a scholar's life , meeting with the alloy of a humble introduction , wrought in him a
passionate devotion to the place , with a profound aversion from the society .
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| Title | Last Essays of Elia Volume 3 of Life and works of Charles Lamb : in 12 vol / Charles Lamb Volume 2 of The Temple library |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Editor | Augustine Birrell |
| Illustrated by | Herbert Railton |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2014 |
| Length | 238 pages |
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