The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
by Charles Lamb
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217392631
Paperback|9780217392631
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OXFORD IN THE VACATION. Casting a preparatory glance at the bottom of this article?as the wary connoisseur in prints, with cursory eye, (which, while it reads, seems as though it read not, ) never fails to consult the quis sculpsit in the corner, before he pronounces some rare piece to be a Vivares or a Woollet?methinks I hear you exclaim, reader, Who is Elia ? Because in my last I tried to divert thee with some half-forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct, in an old house of business, long since gone to decay, doubtless you have already set me down in your mind as one of the self-same college, a votary of the desk, a notched and cropt scrivener, one that sucks his sustenance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill. Well, I do agnize something of the sort. I confess that it is my humour, my fancy, in the fore part of the day, when the mind of your man of letters requires some relaxation, (and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies, ) to while away some good hours of my time in the contemplation of indigos, cottons, raw silks, piece-goods, flowered 01 otherwise. In the first place and then it sends you home with such increased appetite to your books not to say, that your outside sheets and waste wrappers of foolscap do receive into them, most kindly and naturally, the impression of sonnets, epigrams, essays?so that the very parings of a counting-house are, in some sort, the settings up of an author. The enfranchised quill, that has plodded all the morning among the cart-rucks of figures and ciphers, frisks and curvets so at its ease over the flowery carpet ground of a midnight dissertation. It feels its promotion. So that you see, upon the whole, the literary dignity of Elia is very little, if at al
| ISBN-13 | 9780217392631 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217392636 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $20.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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