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" ... his voice as yet not broken, but something between a childish treble, and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prceludium, of a grunt. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 469
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One hour's reading: remarkable customs, seaons and holidays, epithets and ...

William Tegg - 1877 - 362 pages
...young and tender suckling under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the stye, with his voice as not yet broken, but something between a childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner, or prceludium of a grunt." Elia quotes from a Chinese MS., that roast pig, like a great many other important...
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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems, Etc

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...under a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor immundi/ice, .T. A V) prœhtdium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...under a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor inimutulitiic, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble— the mild forerunner or friflmiium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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Poems and Essays

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 672 pages
...suckling, under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the sty, with no original speck of the amor immunditice, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest,...childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner or prceludium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed or...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...; with no original speck of the amor irnmunditice, the hereditary failing of the first parent, 14O yet manifest; his voice as yet not broken, but something...childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner, or prceludium, of a grunt. 10. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed,...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...under a moon old —guiltless as yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor immitnditice, f Am prcehidium of a grunt lie must be roasted. 1 am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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Household Friends for Every Season ...

James Thomas Fields - 1881 - 412 pages
...a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty — • with no original speck of the amor immunditice, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prceludium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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Moxon's Standard readings and recitations, ed. by T. Hood

Edward Moxon (and co.) - 1882 - 576 pages
...under a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor immundititf, the 'hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner or praludium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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Life, Letters, and Writings, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - 1882 - 464 pages
...suckling, under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the sty, with no original speck of the amor immunditice, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner or prtzludium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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Essays of Elia: Y Charles Lamb; Illustrated by R. Swain Gifford, James D ...

Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pages
...under a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor immunditicz, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prazludiutn of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed,...
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