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 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...was ever by nature constituted to comprehend a tittle! Was there not Zimmerman on Solitude ? Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection,...enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have !;ad experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...was ever by nature constituted to comprehend a tittle ! Was there not Zimmerman on Solitude ? Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection,...lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such an one as STC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury ; enriched... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...was ever by nature constituUxl to comprehend a tittle ! Was Ihtre not Zimmerman on Solitude 1 Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection,...lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such an one as STC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...was ever by nature constituted to comprehend a tittle ! Was there not Zimmerman on Solitude ? Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection,...value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently, vying with the originals)... | |
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...haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or if thy heart overflowed! to lend them, lend thy books; but let it be to such...usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. 1 have had experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...was ever by nature constituted to comprehend a tittle ! Was there not Zimmerman on Solitude ? Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or if thy heart overflows to lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such a one as STC — he will return them... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
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 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1845 - 396 pages
...ever by nature constituted to comprehend a tittle ! — Was there not Zimmerman on SoKtude ? Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection,...value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently, vying with the originals)... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...ever by nature constituted to comprehend a tittle ! — Was there not Zimmerman on Solitude ? Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or if thy heart overflowed! to lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such a one as STC — he will return them... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 600 pages
...haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or if thy heart overflows to lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such...value. I have had experience. Many are these precious иве. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently vying with the originals,)... | |
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