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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
History
Ingenious
Book
Embracing
Much
Shown
Like
Leaves
Historical
Capacious
Tradition
Weaves
Whose
Hone
Fiction
Marrow

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