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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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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 334 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 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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Charles Lamb's Essays

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 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 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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Masterpieces of British Literature: Ruskin: Macaulay: Brown: Tennyson ...

Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - 530 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...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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Old China: Being One of the Last Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 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 f riskings, — I had more pleasure in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavors of...
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English Essays

J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 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...impertinent friskings, — I had more pleasure in those busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-like...
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English Essays

J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 324 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 those busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-like...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 668 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...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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Selections from the Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 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...the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their imper- 10 tinent friskings : — I had more pleasure in these busyidle diversions than in all the sweet...
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Little Classics: Life

Rossiter Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth, — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fishpond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...sweet flavors of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-tike common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes,...
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Selections from His Essays, Letters and Verses

Charles Lamb - 1899 - 184 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 baits for children. Here John slyly...
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