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The Young Man's Offering: Comprising Prose and Poetical Writings of the Most ... - Page 127
1853 - 316 pages
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Charles Lamb's Essays

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their wornM out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 334 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their womout hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out...
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Selections from the Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...marble with them ; how I never could be tired with 20 roaming about that huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their worn-out hangings, fluttering...
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Essays of British Essayists: Including Biographical and ..., Volume 2; Volume 29

1900 - 500 pages
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Selected Essays of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1901 - 120 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I to be 35 turned into marble with them ; how I never could be tired with roaming about that huge mansion,...
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The Cyr Readers Arranged by Grades: Book seven

Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 258 pages
...in particular used to spend many hours by myself in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars that had been emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would 25 seem to live again or I to be turned into marble with them. How I never could be tired with roaming...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 3

Robert Chambers - 1902 - 902 pages
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English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin

William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...carved oaken panels, with the gilding almost rubbed out—sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which I had almost to myself, unless when now...
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Elia and The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which...
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