The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3Veazie, 1864 |
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... passions ! ) predominant , breaking down the stony fences of shame , and awkwardness , and a troubling over - consciousness . I was a poor friendless boy . My parents , and those who should care for me , were far away . Those few ...
... passions ! ) predominant , breaking down the stony fences of shame , and awkwardness , and a troubling over - consciousness . I was a poor friendless boy . My parents , and those who should care for me , were far away . Those few ...
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... passionate wig . No comet expounded surer . - J . B. had a heavy hand . I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child ( the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips ) with a " Sirrah , do you presume to set wits at me ...
... passionate wig . No comet expounded surer . - J . B. had a heavy hand . I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child ( the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips ) with a " Sirrah , do you presume to set wits at me ...
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... passionate a love- adventure should be lost . It was better that our family should have missed that legacy , which old Dorrell cheated us of , than that I should have at this moment two thousand pounds in banco , and be without the idea ...
... passionate a love- adventure should be lost . It was better that our family should have missed that legacy , which old Dorrell cheated us of , than that I should have at this moment two thousand pounds in banco , and be without the idea ...
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... passions , she would retort , that man is a gam- ing animal . He must be always trying to get the better in something or other ; that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at cards ; that cards are a ...
... passions , she would retort , that man is a gam- ing animal . He must be always trying to get the better in something or other ; that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at cards ; that cards are a ...
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... passion , that not faintly indicated the dayspring of that absorbing sentiment which was afterwards destined to overwhelm and subdue his nature quite for Alice W- -n . I even think that sentimentally I am disposed to harmony . But ...
... passion , that not faintly indicated the dayspring of that absorbing sentiment which was afterwards destined to overwhelm and subdue his nature quite for Alice W- -n . I even think that sentimentally I am disposed to harmony . But ...
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