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" ... old great house and gardens too, but had too much spirit to be always pent up within their boundaries, — and how their uncle grew up to man's estate as brave as he was handsome... "
The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First series - Page 230
by Charles Lamb - 1836
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - English Essays - 1915 - 372 pages
...estate as brave as he was handsome, to the admiration of every body, but of their great-grandmother Field most especially; and how he used to carry me...good bit older than me — many a mile when I could nor walk for pain ; — and how in after life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always (I fear)...
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... Select Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1909 - 366 pages
...estate as brave as he was handsome, to the admiration of everybody, but of their great-grandmother Field most especially ; and how he used to carry me...after life he became lame-footed too, and I did not al5 ways (I fear) make allowances enough for him when he was impatient, and in pain, nor remember sufficiently...
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Journeys Through Bookland

Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...man's estate as brave as he was handsome, to the admiration of everybody, but of their greatgrandmother Field most especially; and how he used to carry me upon his back when I was a lame-footed 14 boy—for he was a good bit older than I—many a mile when I could not walk for pain; and how in...
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Selected Essays of Lamb

Charles Lamb - History - 1910 - 352 pages
...brave as he was handsome, to the admiration of everybody, but of their great-grandmother Field most 25 especially ; and how he used to carry me upon his...mile when I could not walk for pain ; — and how in after-life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough 30 for him...
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Elia

Charles Lamb - English essays - 1911 - 348 pages
...estate as brave as he was handsome, to the admiration of everybody, but of their great-grandmother Field most especially; and how he used to carry me upon his back when I was a lame-footed boy—for he 5 was a good bit older than me—many a mile when I could not walk for pain;—and how...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...estate as brave as he was handsome, to the admiration of everybody, but of their great-grandmother Field most especially; and how he used to carry me...when I could not walk for pain; — and how in after [160 life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him when...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...estate as brave as he was handsome, to the admiration of everybody, but of their great-grandmother to soberly. Ful thredbar was his overest courtepy;1929o For he had geten him yet no benefyce, hi after [160 life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough...
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Recovered Yesterdays in Literature

William Alfred Quayle - English literature - 1916 - 320 pages
...toward these dim specks — poor blots — innocent blacknesses. Here, Elia, sit for your portrait: And how he used to carry me upon his back when I 290 was a lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not...
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...estate as brave as he was handsome, 105 to the admiration of everybody, but of their great-grandmother Field most especially ; and how he used to carry me...— and how in after life he became lame-footed too, 110 and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him when he was impatient, and in pain,...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...estate as brave as he was handsome, 105 to the admiration of everybody, but of their great-grandmother Field most especially; and how he used to carry me...— and how in after life he became lame-footed too, no and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him when he was impatient, and in pain,...
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