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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Thinking
Five
Queens
Faerie
Reading
Six
Bishop
Upon
Dinner
Andrew
Read
Depends
Bishops
Book
Taking
Sermons
Much
Minutes
Impatient
Would
Ready
Volume
Think
Quite
Queen
Andrews

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