The Essays of EliaRead Books Ltd, 08.01.2013 - 348 Seiten Charles Lamb was considered the most delightful of English essayists in the middle of the 19th century. Essays of Elia is a collection of his finest work. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... whole encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. I should scarcely have cut a figure amongst the franklins or country gentlemen of King John's days. I know less geography than a schoolboy of six weeks' standing. To me a map of old ...
... whole encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. I should scarcely have cut a figure amongst the franklins or country gentlemen of King John's days. I know less geography than a schoolboy of six weeks' standing. To me a map of old ...
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... whole weight of the family fell upon Charles. His love for his sister manifested itself in his determination that as soon as possible she should be released from confinement and live at home, he undertaking ever to be on the watch for ...
... whole weight of the family fell upon Charles. His love for his sister manifested itself in his determination that as soon as possible she should be released from confinement and live at home, he undertaking ever to be on the watch for ...
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... whole duty of a man consisted in writing off dividend warrants. The striking of the annual balance in the company's books (which, perhaps, differed from the balance of last year in the sum of £25, is. 6d.) occupied his days and nights ...
... whole duty of a man consisted in writing off dividend warrants. The striking of the annual balance in the company's books (which, perhaps, differed from the balance of last year in the sum of £25, is. 6d.) occupied his days and nights ...
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... whole, the literary dignity of Elia is very little, if at all, compromised in the condescension. Not that, in my anxious detail of the many commodities incidental to the life of a public office, I would be thought blind to certain flaws ...
... whole, the literary dignity of Elia is very little, if at all, compromised in the condescension. Not that, in my anxious detail of the many commodities incidental to the life of a public office, I would be thought blind to certain flaws ...
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... whole number of his schoolfellows, whose joint lessons and sports he was thenceforth to share no more; the awful presence of the steward, to be seen for the last time; of the executioner beadle, clad in his state robe for the occasion ...
... whole number of his schoolfellows, whose joint lessons and sports he was thenceforth to share no more; the awful presence of the steward, to be seen for the last time; of the executioner beadle, clad in his state robe for the occasion ...
Inhalt
WITCHES AND OTHER NIGHTFEARS | |
MY RELATIONS | |
MACKERY END IN HERTFORDSHIRE | |
THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE | |
GRACE BEFORE MEAT | |
MY FIRST PLAY | |
DISTANT CORRESPONDENTS | |
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A Complete Elia: The Essays of Elia Together with The Last Essays of Elia Charles Lamb Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1943 |
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