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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature - Page 106
1835
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Harper's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...lady if it is not so. Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-andsuch had been the crest of the...is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk aio trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as...
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Charles Lamb's Essays

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...lady if it is not so. Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the...do something with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. " He is an old humourist," you may say,...
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Woman in Epigram: Flashes of Wit, Wisdom, and Satire from the World's Literature

Frederick William Morton - Epigrams - 1894 - 224 pages
...the one thing not needful, — the hail in harvest, — the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet. . . . There is a worse evil under the sun, and that is —...do something with the other, you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. " He is an old humorist," you may say,...
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Half-hours of French Translation

Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 pages
...memory is unseasonable, his compliments perverse,11 his talk a trouble,12 his stay13 pertinacious;14 and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into...as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid 15 of two nuisances. There is a worse evil under the sun, and that is — a female Poor Relation.16...
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The Last Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1897 - 278 pages
...such-and-such had been the crest of the family. Poor ReHis memory is unseasonable ; his compliments la'lon perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious...do something with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. "He is an old humorist," you may say,...
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Selections from the Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...if it is not so. 15 Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the...his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you 20 dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances....
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 pages
...lady if it is not so. Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the...do something with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. " He is an old humorist," you may say,...
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1903 - 536 pages
...lady if it is not so. Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the...do something with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. " He is an old humourist," you may say,...
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My Favorite Book-shelf: A Collection of Interesting & Instructive Reading ...

Charles Josselyn - California - 1903 - 320 pages
...lady if it is not so. Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the...do something with the other; you may pass him off tolerably well; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. " He is an old The Female Poor humourist"...
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The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 380 pages
...Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know, till lately, that such-an-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable...do something with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. " He is an old humourist," you may say,...
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