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" ... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey,... "
The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature - Page 45
1835
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Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials, Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry guilt drawing room Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would...religious woman ; so good, indeed, that she knew all the Psalter by heart — ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands....
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 2

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry guilt drawing room Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would...concourse of all the poor, and some of the. gentry loo, of the neighbourhood for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because s\> snch...
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The Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...old tombs they had seenJately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry guilt drawing room, Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would...religious woman ; so good, indeed, that she knew all the Psalter by heart— >~ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands....
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 386 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of ths gentry, too, of the neighborhood, for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 2

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry guilt drawing room Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would...show their respect for her memory, because she had l«en 1A. such a good and religious woman ; so good, indeed, that she knew all the Psalter by heart...
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The essays of Elia. A new ed

Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in. Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...I told how, when she came to die, her funeral was af -tended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry, too, of the neighborhood, for many...
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The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'a tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...respect for her memory, because she had been such a good aud religious woman ; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part...
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The golden gift, a book for the young

Golden gift - 1868 - 168 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had lately seen at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...too, of the neighbourhood for many miles round, to shew their respect for her memory, because she had been such a good and religious woman ; so good,...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...to show their respect for her memory, because she Lad been such a good and religious woman ; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart,...
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Elia. The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1871 - 484 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighborhood for many miles round, to show their -respect for her memory, because she had been such...
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