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" I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. "
The essays of Elia. A new ed - Page 206
by Charles Lamb - 1857
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The London Magazine, Volume 6

1822 - 694 pages
...quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. Lord FujípiHgtoit in the AK ingenious acquaintance of my own was so much struck...think. Books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftsbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call...
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Elia: Essays which Have Appeared Under that Signature in the London Magazine

Charles Lamb - 1828 - 266 pages
...I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion, of my time to other people's thoughts* I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...think. Books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftsburyis not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call a...
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The Last Essays of Elia: Being a Sequel to Essays Published Under ..., Part 2

Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pages
...head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. In this...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...Jonathan Wild too low. I can read anything which I call book. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. biblia — I reckon Court Calendars,...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 432 pages
...head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...think. Books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftsbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...I must confess that I ded icate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...think. Books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftshury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pages
...head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. In this...
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Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. In this...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 70-71

740 pages
...BY THE AUTHOR OF "PEN AND INK SKETCHES." Charles Lamb, in one of his fascinating essays, Bays, " I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me !" I am, just at this moment, much inclined to dream away an hour or two in others' speculations alsn. It...
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

1868 - 738 pages
...BY THE AUTHOR OF "PEN AND INK SKETCHES." Charles Lamb, in one of his fascinating essays, itys, " I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love...reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me !" I am, just at this moment, much inclined to dream away an hour or two in others' speculations also. It...
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