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Fingerposts to Children's Reading - Page 155
by Walter Taylor Field - 1907 - 267 pages
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The London Magazine, Volume 6

1822 - 694 pages
...stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these ihin/fs in books' clothing perched upon shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down n well-bound semblance...
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Elia: Essays which Have Appeared Under that Signature in the London Magazine

Charles Lamb - 1828 - 1828 - 266 pages
...can read any thing which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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The Last Essays of Elia: Being a Sequel to Essays Published Under ..., Part 2

Charles Lamb - Decision making - 1833 - 308 pages
...exceptions, I can read almost any thing. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...exceptions, I can read almost any thing. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unuxcluding. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...exceptions, I can read almost any thing. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...exceptions, I can read almost anything. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. . , • J confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers, of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...exceptions, I can read almost any thing. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...exceptions, I can read almost any thing. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...these exceptions, I can read almost anything. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...exceptions, I can read almost any thing. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. 1 confess that it moves my spleen to see these things...shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary,, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a well-bound semblance...
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