 ... 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, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity with which you flaunted it about in that overworn...  The Quarterly Review - Page 621835Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 1823 - 734 pages
...rich and finical, gin you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted it about in that over-worn suit — your old corbeau — for four or five weeks...can afford to buy any book that pleases you, but I da not see that you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now. 1923-3 271 "When you came home with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1828 - 266 pages
...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 for the.mighty sum of fifteen —or sixteen shillings was it?—a great affair we thought it then—which... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...with which you flaunted it about in tliat overworn suit — your old corbeau — for four or fite 97 weeks longer than you should have done, to pacify...old folio ? Now you can afford to buy any book that pleaaes you, but I do not see that you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now. " When you came... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity, with which you flaunted it about in that over-worn suit — your old corbeau — 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 ? —... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...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...mighty sum of fifteen — or sixteen shillings was it 1 — a great affair we thought it then — which you had lavished on the old folio. Now you can afford... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...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...Now you 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...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 yuur conscience for the mighty sum of fifteen — or sixteen shillings was it? — a great affair we... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...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...shillings was it? — a great affair we thought it then—which you had lavished on the old folio. Now you can afford to buy any book that pleases you,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1859 - 410 pages
...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...it then, which you had lavished on the old folio. Nor do the perceptions retain that tentative power which enables them to hold, for any length of time,... | |
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