The Essays of EliaHoughton, Mifflin, and Company, 1907 - 226 psl. |
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... Mary , ten years older than himself . His earliest book learning Birth , came from a certain Mr. Bird , whose school ad- 1775 , and mitted boys in the day and girls in the evening . " Oh , how I remember our legs wedged into those uncom ...
... Mary , ten years older than himself . His earliest book learning Birth , came from a certain Mr. Bird , whose school ad- 1775 , and mitted boys in the day and girls in the evening . " Oh , how I remember our legs wedged into those uncom ...
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... Mary was to share with Charles all the anxieties of supporting and pro- tecting a helpless mother and invalid father . A dark shadow rested upon them all in the inherited taint of intermittent insanity which appeared in different forms ...
... Mary was to share with Charles all the anxieties of supporting and pro- tecting a helpless mother and invalid father . A dark shadow rested upon them all in the inherited taint of intermittent insanity which appeared in different forms ...
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... Mary Lamb was " tumbled early to browse at will upon a fair and wholesome pastur- age " was , without doubt , his library . This bequest , with Lamb's own salary , and the little which Mary earned by sewing , seems to have been ...
... Mary Lamb was " tumbled early to browse at will upon a fair and wholesome pastur- age " was , without doubt , his library . This bequest , with Lamb's own salary , and the little which Mary earned by sewing , seems to have been ...
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... Mary Lamb's Life The same year proved to be the most tragic in the family history of the Lambs . Mary , temporarily deranged by over- work , took the life of her mother . No one has written half so delicately of the awfulness of the ...
... Mary Lamb's Life The same year proved to be the most tragic in the family history of the Lambs . Mary , temporarily deranged by over- work , took the life of her mother . No one has written half so delicately of the awfulness of the ...
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... Mary from the hospital , Lamb , feeling that he and his sister were " marked " in their old home , takes lodgings again in the Temple , close to the home of his boyhood . " By my new plan , " he writes , " I shall be as airy up four ...
... Mary from the hospital , Lamb , feeling that he and his sister were " marked " in their old home , takes lodgings again in the Temple , close to the home of his boyhood . " By my new plan , " he writes , " I shall be as airy up four ...
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