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The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4

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Damn order, and method, and steps, and degrees, that he speaks of.

Let confusion have her legitimate work.
_Lovel_.

I marvel why the poets, who, of all men, methinks, should possess the hottest livers, and most empyreal fancies, should affect to see such virtues in cold water.
_Gray_.

Virtue in cold water! ha! ha! ha! _John_.

Because your poet-born hath an internal wine, richer than lippara or canaries, yet uncrushed from any grapes of earth, unpressed in mortal wine-presses.
3_rd Gent_.


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