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The Young Man's Offering: Comprising Prose and Poetical Writings of the Most ... - Page 128
1853 - 316 pages
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Charles Lamb's Essays

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...to carry me upon his back when I was a lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain ; — and how in after life he became lame-footed top, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him when he was impatient, and in pain,...
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English Essays

J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 324 pages
...to carry me upon his back when I was a lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain ; — and how in after-life he became lamefooted too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him when...
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English Essays

J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 pages
...to carry me upon his back when I was a lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain ; — and how in after-life he became lamefooted too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him when...
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Selections from the Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...to carry me upon his back 5 when I was a lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain ; — and how in after-life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him...
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Cyr's Fifth Reader, Book 5

Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 456 pages
...lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many 15 a mile when I could not walk for pain. In after life he became lame-footed too, and I did...sufficiently how considerate he had been to me when I was lame- 20 footed; and how when he died, though he had not yet been dead an hour, it seemed as if he...
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The Cyr Readers Arranged by Grades: Book seven

Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 258 pages
...lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many 15 a mile when I could not walk for pain. In after life he became lame-footed too, and I did...sufficiently how considerate he had been to me when I was lame- 20 footed; and how when he died, though he had not yet been dead an hour, it seemed as if he...
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Selected Essays of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1901 - 120 pages
...to carry me upon his back when I was a lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain; — and...life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always 10 (I fear) make allowances enough for him when he was impatient and in pain, nor remember sufficiently...
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Elia and The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 pages
...used to carry me upon his back when I was a lamefooted boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain ; — and...had been to me when I was lame-footed ; and how when lie died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed as if he had died a great while ago, such...
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volume 3

Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...»sed to carry me upon his back when I was a lamefooted boy— for he was a good bit older than me— y tender, sweet, pathetic, and humorous, the best...Tin- Lament of the Irish Emigrant. I'm siltin' on (1 fear) make allowances enough for him when he was impatient and in pain, nor remember sufficiently...
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Selections (mainly Autobiographical) from Nineteenth Century Prose: With Notes

John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 pages
...to cai-ry me upon his back when I was a lamefooted boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain; — and how in after-life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him...
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