English WitsLeonard Russell Hutchinson, 1953 - 349 pages |
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... Lamb , if the story is true that Lamb once pulled his nose with impunity . Haydon also tells us of a party at which Lamb , a little tipsy , challenged Wordsworth : " Now , you old lake poet , you rascally poet , why do you call Voltaire ...
... Lamb , if the story is true that Lamb once pulled his nose with impunity . Haydon also tells us of a party at which Lamb , a little tipsy , challenged Wordsworth : " Now , you old lake poet , you rascally poet , why do you call Voltaire ...
Page 160
... Lamb " , and how Lamb replied : " But see how early I leave . " On another occasion , one of his superiors asked him : " What are you about , Mr. Lamb ? " " About forty " , replied Lamb . " I do not like your answer " , said the other ...
... Lamb " , and how Lamb replied : " But see how early I leave . " On another occasion , one of his superiors asked him : " What are you about , Mr. Lamb ? " " About forty " , replied Lamb . " I do not like your answer " , said the other ...
Page 162
... Lamb . The letter to the Reverend Henry Francis Cary , the translator of Dante , whose official residence at the British Museum Lamb had left in a similar state , is almost as good . " To be seen " , he wrote , " deliberately to go out ...
... Lamb . The letter to the Reverend Henry Francis Cary , the translator of Dante , whose official residence at the British Museum Lamb had left in a similar state , is almost as good . " To be seen " , he wrote , " deliberately to go out ...
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