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Page 137
... give them a fire heat , and have waded , night after night , through the snow , with the bellows under my arm , just before going to bed , to give the latest possible puff to the embers , lest the frost should seize them before morning ...
... give them a fire heat , and have waded , night after night , through the snow , with the bellows under my arm , just before going to bed , to give the latest possible puff to the embers , lest the frost should seize them before morning ...
Page 219
... give energy to her weak limbs , every day ; and there is something at times so ghastly in her countenance , that I should not be surprised if a third paralytic stroke put a sudden period to her life . Yet it is pleasing to see that she ...
... give energy to her weak limbs , every day ; and there is something at times so ghastly in her countenance , that I should not be surprised if a third paralytic stroke put a sudden period to her life . Yet it is pleasing to see that she ...
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... give some account . While in Sussex , having finished the correction of t poems , he then wrote to his publisher in terms honestly conceived , but most fallacious resolution be deemed peculiar to literary enterprise : TO MR JOHNSON ...
... give some account . While in Sussex , having finished the correction of t poems , he then wrote to his publisher in terms honestly conceived , but most fallacious resolution be deemed peculiar to literary enterprise : TO MR JOHNSON ...
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