I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing... The prose works of Charles Lamb - Pàgina viper Charles Lamb - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
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...and phrases. They had not been his, if they had bcen other than such ; and better it is that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness than to affect a naturalness (so-called) that should be strange to him. Lamb has likewise left us plenty of hints scattered up and... | |
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