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" I was lame-footed; and how when he died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed as if he had died a great while ago, such a distance there is betwixt life and death... "
Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 262
1822
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 392 pages
...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 when he was impatient,...died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed a* if he had died a great while ago, such a distance there 94 95 is betwixt life and death ; and how...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 392 pages
...not been dead an hour, it seemed as- if he had died a great while ago, such a distance there 94 95 is betwixt life and death ; and how I bore his death as I thought pretty well at first, but afterward it haunted and haunted me ; and though I did not cry or take it to heart as some do, and...
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The Copeland Reader: An Anthology of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1

Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...could not walk for pain; — and how in after life he became lamefooted too, and I did not always (I ution lame- footed; and how when he died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed as if he had died...
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Century Readings in the English Essay

Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 564 pages
...side — but John L. (or (I fear) make allowances enough for him ¡5 James Elia) was gone for ever, when he was impatient, and in pain, nor remember sufficiently...considerate he had been to me when I was lame-footed; OLD CHINA and how when he died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed as if he зо i have...
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Century Readings in the English Essay

Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 560 pages
...pain, nor remember sufficiently how considerate he had been to me when I was lame-footed; OLD CHINA and how when he died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed as if he so i have an almost feminine partiality had died a great while ago, such a dis- for old china. When...
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Foundations of English Style

Paul Milton Fulcher - English essays - 1927 - 336 pages
...— and how in after-life he became lame- footed too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowance enough for him when he was impatient, and in pain,...sufficiently how considerate he had been to me when I was lame- footed; and how when he died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed as if he had died...
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Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer: Charles Lamb's Art of Autobiography

Gerald Monsman - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 182 pages
...is precisely the sentiment Elia expresses in "Dream-Children" in connection with his loss of John: "when he died, though he had not been dead an hour,...ago, such a distance there is betwixt life and death; ... I bore his death as I thought pretty well at first, but afterwards it haunted and haunted me; ......
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Flame of Separation

Des Kennedy - Fiction - 2009 - 272 pages
...really neat," Jim riffles through his notes, "was the sentence where he says, let me see, yes: '.. .and how when he died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed that he had died a great while ago, such a distance there is betwixt life and death."' "Yes." Everyone...
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Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer: Charles Lamb's Art of Autobiography

Gerald Monsman - Literary Collections - 1984 - 184 pages
...is precisely the sentiment Elia expresses in "Dream-Children" in connection with his loss of John: "when he died, though he had not been dead an hour,...ago, such a distance there is betwixt life and death; ... I bore his death as I thought pretty well at first, but afterwards it haunted and haunted me; ......
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