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" I play over again for love, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents and events of my life reversed. I would no more alter them than the incidents of some well-contrived... "
Selections (mainly Autobiographical) from Nineteenth Century Prose: With Notes - Page 262
by John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 322 pages
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The London Magazine, Volume 3

1821 - 746 pages
...adversaries. I play over again for love, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. f all harmonious combinations, I verily believe, beyond...— to remain, as it were, singly uninmressible ta Methinkg, it is better that I should have pined away seven of my goldenest years, when I was thrall...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...the gamesters phrase it, games, for which 1 once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of tlioso untoward accidents and events of my life reversed....Methinks, it is better that I should have pined away seven nf my goldenest years, when I was tlirall to the fair hair, and fairer eyes, of Alice W n, than that...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...adversaries, l play over again^wr /ore,- as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents...them than the incidents of some well-contrived novel. JVlethinks, it is better that I should have pined away seven of my goldenest years, when I was thrall...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...adversaries. I play over again for lore, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents...them than the incidents of some well-contrived novel. Mcthinks, it is better that I should have pined away seven of my goldenest years, when I was thrall...
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The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First series

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...adversaries. I play over again for love, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents...that so passionate a love-adventure should be lost. It was better that our family should have missed that legacy, which old Dorrell cheated us of, than...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...adversaries. I play over again for love, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents...fairer eyes, of Alice W n, than that so passionate a love adventure should be lost. It was better that our family should have missed that legacy, which...
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...adversaries. I play over again for Ime, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents...it is better that I should have pined away seven of mygoldenest years, when I was thrall to the fair hair, and fairer eyes, of Alice W n, than that so...
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The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1845 - 396 pages
...adversaries. I play over again for love, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents...that so passionate a love-adventure should be lost. It was better that our family should have missed that legacy, which old Dorrell cheated us of, than...
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The American Whig Review, Volumes 7-8

1848 - 1390 pages
...adversaries. I play once again fur lore, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents...than the incidents of some well-contrived novel." " The elders with whom I was brought up, were of a character not likely to let slip the sacred observance...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7

1848 - 722 pages
...adversaries. I play once again for lore, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. ' I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents...than the incidents of some well-contrived novel." " The elders with whom I was brought up, were of a character not likely to let slip the sacred observance...
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