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" ... look at — -or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening, too, along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching... "
The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series - Page 133
by Charles Lamb - 1845
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Essays of Elia: Y Charles Lamb; Illustrated by R. Swain Gifford, James D ...

Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth, — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...and such-like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes, which, not unobserved by Alice, he had meditated...
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Child Life in Prose

Child life - 1884 - 314 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth; — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the w.atet in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings ; I had more pleasure in these...
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Essays of Elia: And Other Pieces

Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth— or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common bails of children. Here John slyly deposited...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, oetry than etiquette to good government, or than the...Pope may be a more correct poet than Shakespeare ; flavours of peaches, .nectarines, oranges, and such-like common baits of children. Here John slyly...
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Essays of Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1888 - 320 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth—or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings,—I had more pleasure in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches,...
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The Essays of Elia: 1st Series

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 246 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...oranges, and suchlike common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes, which, not unobserved by Alice, he had meditated...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 472 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...impertinent friskings, — I had more pleasure in these busy - idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such -like...
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The Essays of Elia and Eliana

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pages
...in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with hero and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the...in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 406 pages
...limes, in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...in these busyidle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children. Here John slily deposited...
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Lamb's Essays: A Biographical Study

Charles Lamb - 1891 - 300 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...these busy-idle diversions, than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited...
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