With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. Literary Sketches and Letters - Página 237de Charles Lamb - 1848 - 306 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
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