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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems, Etc - Page 481
by Charles Lamb - 1879 - 656 pages
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The London Magazine, Volume 7

1823 - 732 pages
...twice as cumbersome — and when you presented it to me — and when we were exploring the perfectness of it (collating you called it) — and while I was...print after Lionardo, which we christened the 'Lady Blanch;' when you looked at the purchase, and thought of the money — and thought of the money, and...
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Elia: Essays which Have Appeared Under that Signature in the London Magazine

Charles Lamb - 1828 - 1828 - 266 pages
...the.mighty sum of fifteen —or sixteen shillings was it?—a great affair we thought it then—which you had lavished on the old folio? Now you can afford...print after Lionardo, which we christened the' 'Lady Blanch;' when you looked at the purchase, and thought of the money—and thought of the money, and...
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The Last Essays of Elia: Being a Sequel to Essays Published Under ..., Part 2

Charles Lamb - Decision making - 1833 - 308 pages
...with which you flaunted it about in that over-worn suit — your old corbeau — for four or five L2 weeks longer than you should have done, to pacify...print after Lionardo, which we christened the ' Lady Blanch;' when you looked at the purchase, and thought of the money — and thought of the money, and...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 53-54

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 608 pages
...which your impatience would not suffer to be left till day-break — was there no pleasure in being1 a poor man ? Or can those neat black clothes which...you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now.' — Last Essays, &c. p. 219. In his dedication of the two volumes of his works published in 1818, Lamb...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...with which you flaunted it about in that overworn suit — your old corbeau — for four or five 96 97 weeks longer than you should have done, to pacify...print after Lionardo, which we christened the ' Lady Blanch ;' when you looked at the purchase, and thought of the money — and thought of the money, and...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...that over-worn suit — your old corbeau — for four or five weeks longer than 'you should have cone, to pacify your conscience for the mighty sum of fifteen...bring me home any nice old purchases now. " When you come home with twenty apologies for laying out a less number of shillings upon that print after Lionardo,...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...then — which you had lavished on the old folio ? Now you can afford to buy any book that pleaaes you, but I do not see that you ever bring me home...print after Lionardo, which we christened the ' Lady Blanch ;' when you looked at the purchase, and thought of the money — and thought of the money, and...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...twice as cumbersome — and when you presented it to me — and when we were exploring the perfectness of it (collating you called it) — and while I was...print after Lionardo, which we christened the ' Lady Blanch ;' when you looked at the purchase, and thought of the money — .and thought of the money,...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...twice as cumbersome — and when you presented it to me — and when we were exploring the perfectness of it (collating you called it) — and while I was...print after Lionardo, which we christened the ' Lady Blanch ;' when you looked at the purchase, and thought of the money — and thought of the money, and...
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Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...twice as cumbersome — and when you presented it to me — and when we were exploring the perfectness of it (collating you called it) — and while I was...print after Lionardo, which we christened the ' Lady Blanch ;' when you looked at the purchase, and thought of the money — and thought of the money, and...
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