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| Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...probable anybody. Just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious nor too late to sit a reasonable time. He is a most pleasant hand; a fine, rattling fellow;...Dyer, nonsense with me, and anything with anybody ; a great farmer, somewhat concerned in an agricultural magazine ; reads no poetry but Shakspeare,... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...probable anybody. Just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious nor too late to sit a reasonable time. He is a most pleasant hand ; a fine, rattling fellow...of fact to Xenophon and Plato ; can talk Greek with Porson, politics with Thelwall, conjecture with George Dyer, nonsense with me, and anything with anybody... | |
| 1841 - 806 pages
...anybody : just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious, nor too late to sit a reasonable time. He is a most pleasant hand ; a fine rattling fellow,...Dyer, nonsense with me, and anything with anybody ; a great farmer, — somewhat concerned in the Agricultural Magazine, — reads no poetry but Shakspeare,... | |
| 1841 - 962 pages
...tedious, nor too late to sit a reasonable time. Me is a most pleasant hand ; a fine rattling fellow, h«s gone through life laughing at solemn apes — himself...literate, oppressively full of information in all stuff of coir, versation, from matter of fact to Xenophon and Plato — can talk Greek with Person, politics... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1842 - 964 pages
...anybody : just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious, nor too late to sit a reasonable time. He is a most pleasant hand ; a fine rattling fellow,...— himself hugely literate, oppressively full of in•Auo. 1840. formation in all stuff of conversation, from matter-of-fact to Xenophon and Plato —... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 474 pages
...probable anybody. Just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious nor too late to sit a reasonable time. He is a most pleasant hand ; a fine, rattling fellow...Dyer, nonsense with me, and anything with anybody ; a great farmer, somewhat concerned in an agricultural magazine ; reads no poetry but Shakspeare,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...anybody. Just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious, nor too late to sit a reasonable time. e th Thel wall, conjecture with George Dyer, nonsense with me, and anything with anybody ; a great farmer,... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 576 pages
...probable anybody. Just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious nor too late to sit a reasonable time. He is a most pleasant hand ; a fine, rattling fellow...Dyer, nonsense with me, and anything with anybody ; a great farmer, somewhat concerned in an agricultural magazine ; reads no poetry but Shakspeare,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 pages
...probable anybody. Just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious nor too late to sit a reasonable time. He is a most pleasant hand ; a fine, rattling fellow...Plato ; can talk Greek with Person, politics with ThelvVall, conjecture with George Dyer, nonsense with me, and anything with anybody ; a great farmer,... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 628 pages
...probable anybody. Just in the nick, neither too early to be tedious nor too late to sit a reasonable time. He is a most pleasant hand ; a fine, rattling fellow...of fact to Xenophon and Plato; can talk Greek with Porson, politics with Thelwall, conjecture with George Dyer, nonsense with me, and anything with anybody... | |
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