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" I was repairing some of the loose leaves with paste, which your impatience would not suffer to be left till daybreak, — was there no pleasure in being a poor man ? or can those neat black clothes which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed... "
The London Magazine - Page 260
1823
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The Manchester iris, Volume 2

1823 - 450 pages
...flaunted it about in that over-worn suit — your old eorbeao — for four or fire weeks longer than yon should have done, to pacify your conscience for the...or sixteen shillings was it ? — a great affair we thoogbt it then— which yon had lavished on the old folio? No« yon can afford to buy any book that...
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Elia: Essays which Have Appeared Under that Signature in the London Magazine

Charles Lamb - 1828 - 1828 - 266 pages
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted it about in that overworn suit—your old corbeau—for four or five weeks longer than you should have done, to pacify your conscience...
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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
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted...over-worn suit — your old corbeau — for four or five L2 weeks longer than you should have done, to pacify your conscience for the mighty sum of fifteen...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted...for four or five weeks longer than 'you should have cone, to pacify your conscience for the mighty sum of fifteen — or sixteen shillings, was it ? —...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted...overworn suit — your old corbeau — for four or five 96 97 weeks longer than you should have done, to pacify your conscience for the mighty sum of fifteen...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted it about in tliat overworn suit — your old corbeau — for four or fite 97 weeks longer than you should have...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted...can afford to buy any book that pleases you, but I do not see that you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now. " When you came home with twenty...
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Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted...can afford to buy any book that pleases you, but I do not see that you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now. " When you came home with twenty...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted...can afford to buy any book that pleases you, but I do not see that you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now. " When you came home with twenty...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 54

1835 - 610 pages
...which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity with which you flaunted...can afford to buy any book that pleases you ; but I do not see that you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now.' — Last Essays, &c. p. 219. In...
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