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" ... be shy of showing it; or if thy heart overfloweth to lend them, lend thy books; but let it be to such a one as STC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 16
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have !;ad experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his —...Daniel; in old Burton; in Sir Thomas Browne; and those abstruser cogitations of the Greville, now, alas! wandering in Pagan lands. — I counsel thee, shut...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...(generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS....(in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not Imfrequently, vying with the originals) — in no very clerkly hand — legible in my Daniel ; in old...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...(generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury ; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious, MSS. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in qutmtity not unfrequently, vying with the originals) — in no very clerkly hand — legible in my...
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The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First series

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...(generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS....; in old Burton ; in Sir Thomas Browne ; and those abstruser cogitations of the Greville, now, alas ! wandering in Pagan lands. — I counsel thee, shut...
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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
...(generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury ; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS....; in old Burton ; in Sir Thomas Browne ; and those abstruser cogitations of the Greville, now, alas ! wandering in pagan lands. I counsel thee, shut not...
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...annotations tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his — (inmatter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently,...; in old Burton ; in Sir Thomas Browne ; and those abstruser cogitations of the Greville, now, alas ! wandering in Pagan lands. — I counsel thee, shut...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 208

Literature - 1896 - 854 pages
...Coleridge, as Charles Lamb tells us, annotated nearly every book that came into his hands, his annotations "in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently, vying with the originals." Second, the careful transcription of striking, beautiful, or important passages is a tremendous aid...
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The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series

Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...(generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury ; enriched with annotations tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS....; in old Burton ; in Sir Thomas Browne ; and those abstruser cogitations of the Greville, now, alas ! wandering in Pagan lands. I counsel thee, shut not...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 31

American periodicals - 1848 - 600 pages
...enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious иве. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity...the GREVILLE, now alas ! wandering in Pagan lands. I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library against STC' Well was it for us that LAMB did not...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 31

American periodicals - 1848 - 580 pages
...enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I havo had experience. Many are these precious MSB. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity...no very clerkly hand, legible in my DANIEL ; in old BUETON ; in Sir THOMAS BROWNE ; and those abstruse cogitations of the GREVILLE, now alas ! wandering...
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