 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days — and professeth he is...importuned into a slice against his first resolution. Hesticketh by the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days — and professeth he is...declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet sufiereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birthdays— and professeth he is fortunate...declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet suflereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days — and professeth he is...the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remaindei glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...upon open days, when your wife says - ith some complacency, ' My dear, perhaps Mr ill drop in to-day.' bers suflercth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...declareth against fish, the turbot being small, yet suflereth himself to be importuned into a slice 1 1 remainder „'lass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He na puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. •will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days — and professeth he is...declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet he suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice, against his first resolution. He sticketh by the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1850 - 406 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days — and professeth he is...the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 pages
...open days, when your wife says with some complacency, " My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth-days — and professeth he is...declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet he suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice, against his first resolution. He stick, eth by... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...says, with some complacency, "My dear, perhaps Mr. will drop in to-day." He remembereth birth4lays — ind, and feed me without a power of satiating me....crowded streets, and I often shed i tears in the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are... | |
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He remembereth birthdays — and professeth he is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He declareth against fish, the turbot being small — yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port —... 
