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The Quarterly Review - Page 469
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 348 pages
...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...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,...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 pages
...most délicat« — princeps obtoniorum. hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest—his voice as yet not broken, but something between a childish treble and a gmmble — the mild forerunner, or pneiitdium, of a grunt. lie muet be roasted. I am not ignorant that...
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Old China: Being One of the Last Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 pages
...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 prcdudium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church ...

1896 - 756 pages
...before ! ' I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — those hobbedehoys — but a young and tender suckling, under a moon old,...childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner, or pr&ludium, of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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Selections from His Essays, Letters and Verses

Charles Lamb - 1899 - 184 pages
...suckling, under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the sty, with no original speck of the amor iinmunditiw, 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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The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature ..., Volume 21

Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...— 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 pradudium of a grunt. There is no flavor comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched,...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 21

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 pages
...— 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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Cakes & Ale: A Memory of Many Meals, the Whole Interspersed with Various ...

Edward Spencer - 1900 - 310 pages
...the sty, with no original speck of the amor immunditiae, the hereditary failing of the first parents, yet manifest — his voice as yet not broken, but...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner or praeludium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 13

1901 - 638 pages
...suckling, under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the sty, with no original speck of the amor immunditicB, 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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Selected Essays of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1901 - 120 pages
...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...not broken, but something between a childish treble 20 and a grumble—the mild forerunner or prvdudium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant...
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