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There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 292 (1755) Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Letter to Francesco Sastres, 21 August 1784, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ vol. 1, p. 293, n. 3 Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. When asked why he had defined pastern as the ‘knee’ of a horse, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 293 (1755) Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 296 (1755) I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 297 (1755) If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 300 (1755) The worst of Warburton is, that he has a rage for saying something, when there’s nothing to be said. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 329 (1758) No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned...A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759). No, Sir, I am not a botanist; and (alluding, no doubt, to his near sightedness) should I wish to become a botanist, I must first turn myself into a reptile. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 377 n. 2 (20 July 1762) [Boswell:] I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it... [Johnson:] That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 392 (16 May 1763) The notion of liberty amuses the people of England, and helps to keep off the taedium vitae. When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his country he has, in fact, no uneasy feeling. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 394 (16 May 1763) Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children. On Dr Blair’s asking whether any man of a modern age could have written Ossian, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 396 (24 May 1763) I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted
on people praying with him; and I’d as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 397 (24 May 1763) You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables. On literary criticism, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 409 (25 June 1763) I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles. Referring to Dr John Campbell, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 418 (1 July 1763) The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature. Dr John Campbell, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 418 n. 1 (1 July 1763) Great abilities are not requisite for an historian...imagination is not required in any high degree. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 424 (6 July 1763) Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England! In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 425 (6 July 1763) A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 428 (14 July 1763) But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 432 (14 July 1763) All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 441 (20July 1763) Truth, Sir, is a cow that will yield such people [sceptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 444 (21 July 1763) Young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 445 (21 July 1763) In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 445 (21 July 1763) Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 448 (21 July 1763)
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Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of
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‘The Author’ (1757) act 2 So sh
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There’s a silver lining Through t
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has value. ‘A Passage to India’
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He was uniformly of an opinion whic
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Lies snug As a bug In a rug. Letter
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Anatomy is destiny. ‘Gesammelte S
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The land was ours before we were th
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Is incontestable. It undercuts The
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Letter to a patron, in John Hayes
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a las cinco de la tarde At five in
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Resolution adopted by the Massachus
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‘The Beggar’s Opera’ (1728) a
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I hate all Boets and Bainters. In J
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7.36 Edward Gibbon 1737-94 The vari
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‘Cold Comfort Farm’ (1932) ch.
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Ambassadors cropped up like hay, Pr
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Filled to the brim with girlish gle
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If you walk down Piccadilly with a
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‘The Pirates of Penzance’ (1879
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House of Commons, 7 May 1877 The re
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Ohne Butter werden wir fertig, aber
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Weeping and watching for the morrow
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‘The Deserted Village’ (1770) l
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‘The Good-Natured Man’ (1768) a
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Two things stand like stone, Kindne
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Send me the half that’s got my ke
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Of all pains, the greatest pain Is
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Fair laughs the morn, and soft the
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‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite
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‘The Spleen’ (1737) l. 92 By ha
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7.94 Gregory VII 1020-85 Dilexi ius
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Christmas card I received this morn
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Order to British troops, 12 April 1
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‘Works’ (1625) p. 670 8.15 Fitz
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8.26 Learned Hand 1872-1961 A self-
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words—those terrible marks of the
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If way to the Better there be, it e
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And nestlings fly: And the little b
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Licker talks mighty loud w’en it
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At last the belles ryngeth to evens
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university. ‘Table Talk’ vol. 1
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Wherever books are burned, men also
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Where do the noses go? I always won
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The better day, the worse deed. ‘
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The Common Law of England has been
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And I replied, ‘My Lord.’ ‘Th
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‘Man’ (1633) When boys go first
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‘Outlandish Proverbs’ (1640) no
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Made us nobly wild, not mad. ‘An
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At once, a bud, and yet a rose full
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Well, we knocked the bastard off! O
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whatsoever, if but a man. ‘Leviat
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deliberate and forced, and partakes
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Happy, and glorious, Long to reign
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It is not written what a man shall
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Glad to death’s mystery, Swift to
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‘The Song of the Shirt’ (1843)
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Wild air, world-mothering air, Nest
Page 783 and 784: ‘Spring and Fall: to a young chil
Page 785 and 786: Reddiderit iunctura novum. You will
Page 787 and 788: Quidquid delirant reges plectuntur
Page 789 and 790: What pleasure does it give to be ri
Page 791 and 792: ‘Odes’ bk. 1, no. 37, l. 1 Pers
Page 793 and 794: ‘Odes’ bk. 3, no. 29, l. 12 Exe
Page 795 and 796: Even though broken up, the limbs of
Page 797 and 798: The hour when earth’s foundations
Page 799 and 800: The gale, it plies the saplings dou
Page 801 and 802: ‘Philistine’ December 1909, p.
Page 803 and 804: On rèsiste á l’invasion des arm
Page 805 and 806: Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe incre
Page 807 and 808: That action is best, which procures
Page 809 and 810: far as the guardsman’s cut and th
Page 811 and 812: ‘Peer Gynt’ (1867) act 4 Tar de
Page 813 and 814: 9.11 Eugéne Ionesco 1912— C’es
Page 815 and 816: After leaving his sick-bed in Octob
Page 817 and 818: One might ennumerate the items of h
Page 819 and 820: 10.11 Randall Jarrell 1914-65 To Am
Page 821 and 822: We are not afraid to follow truth w
Page 823 and 824: 10.23 William Jerome 1865-1932 Any
Page 825 and 826: The saddest of all Kings Crowned, a
Page 827 and 828: If the changes we fear be thus irre
Page 829 and 830: I am disappointed by that stroke of
Page 831 and 832: ‘Taxation No Tyranny’ (1775 (Ya
Page 833: [Johnson:] No, Sir; stark insensibi
Page 837 and 838: In James Boswell ‘The Life of Sam
Page 839 and 840: Charing-Cross. In James Boswell ‘
Page 841 and 842: In James Boswell ‘The Life of Sam
Page 843 and 844: Classical quotation is the parole o
Page 845 and 846: This was easy;—he therefore caugh
Page 847 and 848: Hester Lynch Piozzi ‘Anecdotes of
Page 849 and 850: True happiness Consists not in the
Page 851 and 852: ‘A Celebration of Charis’ (1640
Page 853 and 854: It is not growing like a tree In bu
Page 855 and 856: Let him who has won it bear the pal
Page 857 and 858: By an epiphany he meant a sudden sp
Page 859 and 860: shewed it thee? Love. What shewed H
Page 861 and 862: 10.60 Juvenal A.D. c.60-c.130 Diffi
Page 863 and 864: Only two things does he worry about
Page 865 and 866: Ehrfurcht, ie “fter und anhaltend
Page 867 and 868: ‘The Great Hunger’ (1947) I hat
Page 869 and 870: She loves me dearly; She is so cons
Page 871 and 872: Where’s the cheek that doth not f
Page 873 and 874: ‘I stood tip-toe upon a little hi
Page 875 and 876: For ever wilt thou love, and she be
Page 877 and 878: Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last
Page 879 and 880: ‘On the Sea’ (1817) Yet the swe
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Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 24 August
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Keep me, O keep me, King of Kings,
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O! they’re all fled with thee, Ro
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I think that I shall never see A po
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the presence of justice. Letter fro
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And the children stood watching the
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‘The Ballad of East and West’ (
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‘In Partibus’ (1909) Then ye re
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What is a woman that you forsake he
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The sheep-bells and the ship-bells
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‘Just So Stories’ (1902) ‘The
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Art does not reproduce the visible;
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God seems to have left the receiver
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12.1 Henry Labouchere 1831-1912 He
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12.7 Fiorello La Guardia 1882-1947
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[A pun] is a pistol let off at the
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£40,000 a year a moderate income
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Epigram in ‘The Atlas’, 28 Apri
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Et emitte coelitus Lucis tuae radiu
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Leaving the gardens tidy, The thous
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One is never as unhappy as one thin
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, s
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And so, I missed my chance with one
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ode madly off in all directions.
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‘More Nonsense’ (1872) ‘One H
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Title of book (1952) The few really
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It is well that war is so terrible.
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Above us only sky, Imagine all the
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Who, when you win, will always give
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On Oscar Wilde, in ‘Letters to th
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Never knowingly undersold. Slogan (
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What is conservatism? Is it not adh
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Minds still passion-ridden, soul-po
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scourged mankind. I hope we may say
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You would think him a very foolish
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The time has come for all good men
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And the thoughts of youth are long,
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Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
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apocryphal) J’ai failli attendre.
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Generic name for the archetypal rig
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The aquarium is gone. Everywhere, g
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Thinking nothing done while anythin
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And life is given to none freehold,
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‘Campaspe’ (1584) act 3, sc. 3
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The English Bible, a book which, if
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A rake among scholars, and a schola
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Then out spake brave Horatius, The
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By and by God caught his eye. ‘Re
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1.19 Sir Ian MacGregor 1912— Peop
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‘The Gutenberg Galaxy’ (1962) p
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There were two glasses and two chai
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Liberty is to faction what air is t
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‘Lettres et Opuscules Inèdits’
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Wherefore, madam, I pray you kiss m
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announce the beginning of a new mon
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1.71 Edwin Markham 1852-1940 Bowed
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O I’ll leap up to my God: who pul
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Nature that framed us of four eleme
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honesty is a good thing but it is n
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‘Bermudas’ (written c.1653, pub
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While man there walked without a ma
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Thus, though we cannot make our sun
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I like a cigar, but every now and a
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Firewood, ironware, and cheap tin t
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practised at spare moments; it is a
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1.105 Dame Nellie Melba (Helen Port
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The saddest life is that of a polit
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‘One of Our Conquerors’ (1891)
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Error has never approached my spiri
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the liberty of action of any of the
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1.125 Alice Duer Miller 1874-1942 I
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‘The House at Pooh Corner’ (192
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‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ (1926) ch. 9
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Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes
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As the gay motes that people the su
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‘L’Allegro’ (1645) l. 25 Spor
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For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his p
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Where thou perhaps under the whelmi
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And let the base of heaven’s deep
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United thoughts and counsels, equal
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And when night Darkens the streets,
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‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 2, l
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The other shape, If shape it might
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At whose sight all the stars Hide t
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And these the gems of heaven, her s
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Headlong themselves they threw Down
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She fair, divinely fair, fit love f
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‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 12,
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Of such doctrine never was there sc
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Brought to me like Alcestis from th
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we do injuriously by licensing and
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Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoram
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Grant them eternal rest, O Lord; an
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saved many an English spinster from
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‘Les femmes savantes’ (1672) ac
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And bigamy, Sir, is a crime!’ ‘
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domestic business is no less import
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1.156 Casimir, Comte de Montrond 17
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Believe me, if all those endearing
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‘National Airs’ (1815) ‘Oft i
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In William Roper ‘The Life of Sir
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Had she come all the way for this,
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1.183 Rogers Morton 1914-79 I’m n
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1.195 Ethel Watts Mumford 1878-1940
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There is no way to peace. Peace is
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There is only one step from the sub
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A billboard lovely as a tree. Perha
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2.13 Emperor Nero A.D. 37-68 Qualis
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It would be a gain to the country w
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2.20 Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 If
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2.27 Martin Niemöller 1892-1984 Wh
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Too kind, too kind. On the Order of
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2.39 Alfred Noyes 1880-1958 The win
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All the news that’s fit to print.
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Title of play (written 1940-1; publ
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Journalism and Letters of George Or
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‘Shooting an Elephant’ (1950)
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Of the world for ever, it seems.
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allow it to be savage. ‘Epistulae
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And bugles calling for them from sa
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system. ‘The Age of Reason’ pt.
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What is merit? The opinion one man
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Shivering and sighing And he vows h
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‘Pensèes’ (1670) no. 29 Tout l
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Her ball-dress seemed a breathing m
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Mid pleasures and palaces though we
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Whose flame creeps in at every hole
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which was done there, he looking as
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Live with yourself: get to know how
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Mrs Queen’. Speech to English-Spe
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There is something behind the thron
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not angry with me, for you know who
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Than to love and be loved by me.
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Gentle Dullness ever loves a joke.
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‘Elegy to the Memory of an Unfort
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Sees but a backward steward for the
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As shallow streams run dimpling all
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The hoarse, rough verse should like
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Know then thyself, presume not God
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The worst of madmen is a saint run
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Belinda smil’d, and all the world
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‘The Open Society and its Enemies
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I am worn to a ravelling...I am und
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wrote make it new on his bath tub.
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walked eye-deep in hell believing i
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that much was ominous. With middle-
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Liturgy, to keep the mean between t
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enemies. ‘Morning Prayer’, The
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O God, merciful Father, that despis
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thy governance, that thy Church may
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Because it is requisite, that no ma
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all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
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our dear brother here departed, we
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At the brightness of his presence h
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The Lord is my light, and my salvat
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ock, and ordered my goings. Psalm 4
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For lo, the kings of the earth: are
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Psalm 62, v. 4 As for the children
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The mountains also shall bring peac
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As soon as thou scatterest them the
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They shall perish, but thou shalt e
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they would be. Psalm 107, v. 27 The
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Our soul is escaped even as a bird
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Psalm 141, v. 11 Enter not into jud
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dangerous deceits. ‘Articles of R
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And they have my whimsies, but thou
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Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sa
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The true paradises are paradises we
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There was an old owl lived in an oa
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Ev’n at the brink of danger; not
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6.2 Jean Racine 1639-99 Je l’ai t
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‘Devonshire’ p. 261. Even such
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pederasty—whatever the French bel
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‘Lessons of the War: 3, Unarmed C
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In the factory we make cosmetics; i
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Prove to me that you’re no fool W
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Nun danket alle Gott, Mit Herzen, M
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‘Dèclaration des droits de l’h
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I’ll change a mistress till I’m
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By form assisted, flew from thy emb
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6.71 Mme Roland 1754-93 O libertè!
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wars. Undelivered address for Jeffe
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Was but a dream; and now I wake, Ex
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They die not,—for their life was
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Le jour de gloire est arrivè... Au
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Oh! we don’t want to lose you but
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without labour is base. ‘Time and
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enjoying themselves, or, more gener
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And Vigny more discreet, as if in h
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‘The Catcher in the Rye’ (1951)
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7.14 Lord Samuel (Herbert Louis, fi
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Music is essentially useless, as li
Page 1269 and 1270:
I confused things with their names:
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‘On Passing the New Menin Gate’
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In Robin Morgan ‘Sisterhood is Po
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He is gone on the mountain, He is l
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‘Marmion’ (1808) canto 5, st. 1
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Come open your gates, and let me ga
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From whence his mother rose. ‘Lov
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her heart. ‘1066 and All That’
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7.62 Thomas Shadwell c.1642-92 Word
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Antony: Then must thou needs find o
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O’er-picturing that Venus where w
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To follow with allegiance a fall’
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Cleopatra: So it should be, that no
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I wish you all joy of the worm. ‘
Page 1297 and 1298:
And churlish chiding of the winter
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‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 2,
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Hath virgined it e’er since. ‘C
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Can snore upon the flint when resty
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The bird of dawning singeth all nig
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It is not, nor it cannot come to go
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You must not take for fire. ‘Haml
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To prick and sting her. ‘Hamlet
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But keep a farm, and carters. ‘Ha
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What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hec
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‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l
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We that have free souls, it touches
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Stewed in corruption, honeying and
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And his sandal shoon. ‘Hamlet’
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There is no ancient gentlemen but g
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Then, venom, to thy work. ‘Hamlet
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‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1
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‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 2
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Heard, not regarded. ‘Henry IV, P
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Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-we
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To build at all? ‘Henry IV, Part
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carved upon it with a knife. ‘Hen
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Where, for anything I know, Falstaf
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‘Henry V’ (1599) act 2, sc. 3,
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Yet sit and see; Minding true thing
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Will stand a tip-toe when this day
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And of it made his son imperial lor
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‘Henry VI, Part 2’ (1592) act 4
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There had made a lasting spring. Ev
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Of an unbounded stomach. ‘Henry V
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I had as lief not be as live to be
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Yesterday the bird of night did sit
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‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 2, s
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O! now you weep, and I perceive you
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For new-made honour doth forget men
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But when it first did help to wound
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‘King Lear’ (1605-6) act 1, sc.
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to
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That honour which shall bate his sc
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Still climbing trees in the Hesperi
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Third Witch: There to meet with Mac
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‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 1, sc. 3,
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Your hand, your tongue: look like t
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‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 2, sc. 1,
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Who’s there i’ the other devil
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That I would set my life on any cha
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In the poisoned entrails throw. Toa
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lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? W
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And wish the estate o’ the world
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‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) ac
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That age, ache, penury, and impriso
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With purpose to be dressed in an op
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And spet upon my Jewish gabardine,
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‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-
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That ever blotted paper! ‘The Mer
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For, as thou urgest justice, be ass
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7.66.22 The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Things base and vile, holding no qu
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I know a bank whereon the wild thym
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Methought I was enamoured of an ass
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That you have but slumbered here Wh
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No glory lives behind the back of s
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‘Othello’ (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1
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When I did speak of some distressfu
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Desdemona: O most lame and impotent
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‘Othello’ (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3
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They are not ever jealous for the c
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And his unkindness may defeat my li
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And you the blacker devil. ‘Othel
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Old John of Gaunt, time-honour’d
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With inky blots, and rotten parchme
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My subjects for a pair of carved sa
Page 1453 and 1454:
After a well-graced actor leaves th
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As ’twere in scorn of eyes, refle
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‘Romeo And Juliet’ (1595) act 1
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Deny thy father, and refuse thy nam
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I am the very pink of courtesy. ‘
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I have a faint cold fear thrills th
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‘The Taming Of The Shrew’ (1592
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Allaying both their fury, and my pa
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Our revels now are ended. These our
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Their fears of hostile strokes, the
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Unfit to hear moral philosophy. ‘
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Hector is dead; there is no more to
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Lady, you are the cruell’st she a
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Than women’s are. ‘Twelfth Nigh
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Why have you suffered me to be impr
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‘The Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (
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The winds of March with beauty; vio
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And now this pale swan in her water
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And trouble deaf heaven with my boo
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Save, where you are, how happy you
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So thy great gift, upon misprision
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Distilled from limbecks foul as hel
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Save a proud rider on so proud a ba
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‘Everybody’s Political What’s
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Englishmen never will be slaves: th
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patriotic principles; he robs you o
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If otherwise wish I. Poem (1916) in
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Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
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Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
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Now is come a darker day, And thou
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Be through my lips to unawakened ea
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To forgive wrongs darker than death
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The devotion to something afar From
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A single word even may be a spark o
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‘The Rivals’ (1775) act 3, sc.
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I presume you’re mortal, and may
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Tempers her words to trampling hors
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7.95 N. F. Simpson 1919— Knocked
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She is the violet, The daisy delect
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On what a charity ye come To bless
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As respects the great contrivances
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Smith: It is not for me, Your Honou
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‘Not Waving but Drowning’ (1957
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And, scarce-suspected, animate the
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from hence to there may be blessed;
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That you’ll remember. For you nee
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‘The Doctor’ (1812) ch. 17 Show
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A clever theft was praiseworthy amo
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My verse your virtues rare shall et
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Gather the rose of love, whilst yet
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That even the gentle stream, the wh
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She’s the Broad and I’m the Hig
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A self-made man is one who believes
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I knew that once: but now—I think
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‘Tristram Shandy’ (1759-67) bk.
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‘Bantams in Pine Woods’ (1923)
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The body dies; the body’s beauty
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The bright face of danger. ‘Acros
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‘Virginibus Puerisque’ (1881)
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Let the blow fall soon or late, Let
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7.173 Caskie Stinnett 1911— A dip
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Discretion is not the better part o
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At length the candle’s out, and n
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ibs I gives Mrs J when I think they
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however this be, his Majesty hath d
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‘A Tale of a Tub’ (1704) ch. 9
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Hobbes clearly proves, that every c
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Blossom by blossom the spring begin
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‘Hymn of Man’ Glory to Man in t
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‘A man who is not afraid of the s
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‘Fireflies’ (1928) p. 29 8.3 Ne
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Establishment. ‘Essays in English
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Personally, I have always looked on
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Close to the sun in lonely lands, R
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‘Idylls of the King’ (1842-85)
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And every marge enclosing in the mi
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The sad mechanic exercise, Like dul
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The great world’s altar-stairs Th
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Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-lea
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Than labour in the deep mid-ocean,
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And a hush with the setting moon.
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Who never sold the truth to serve t
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Deep as first love, and wild with a
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But I cannot meet them here, for my
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By this still hearth, among these b
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Lovers’ rows make love whole agai
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‘Vanity Fair’ (1847-8) ch. 36 (
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‘De Imitatione Christi’ bk. 3,
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My birthday Away but the weather tu
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in the climate of our conception?
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(O filigree petal!) Fashioned so pu
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‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Winter
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The three-o’-clock in the morning
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Nature is always wise in every part
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eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that
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The state of both his universities,
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The comic almanacs give us dreadful
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Where force is necessary, there it
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Truth is the most valuable thing we
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‘A Tramp Abroad’ (1880) ch. 8 A
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Un poéme n’est jamais achevè—
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Wise Nicodemus saw such light As ma
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10.12 Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929 Co
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I will be good. On being shown a ch
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I sing of arms and the man who firs
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How greatly changed from that Hecto
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longing for the further shore. ‘A
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whole world. ‘Eclogue’ no. 1, l
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Me too the Muses made write verse.
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Ils ne se servent de la pensèe que
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11.0 W Attributed to Voltaire, the
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Illustrious acts high raptures do i
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Letter to Mason, 12 June 1775, in
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‘The Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt
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with. ‘Science and Natural Histor
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From every opening flower! ‘Again
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eneficed clergyman and need not com
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Sidney would remark, ‘I know just
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‘The White Devil’ (1612) act 1,
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The British are coming. Speech acce
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Stanhope ‘Notes of Conversations
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‘Rule of Conduct’ in ‘Letters
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The byrdes sang swete in the middes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicio
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I dreamed that was the new city of
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I have said that the soul is not mo
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‘Barbara Frietchie’ l. 41 For a
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I never saw a man who looked With s
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‘The Importance of Being Earnest
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Children begin by loving their pare
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ugs stand as if amazed. ‘How To B
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11.112 William Windham 1750-1810 Th
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‘The Code of the Woosters’ (193
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11.123 Thomas Wolfe 1900-38 Most of
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them pass, but the 3rd 4th 5th 6th
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To express what then I saw; and add
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’Tis my delight, alone in summer
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‘Laodamia’ (1815) l. 103 I have
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What, you are stepping westward?
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forg
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‘Ode. Intimations of Immortality
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I heard among the solitary hills Lo
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And clearest insight, amplitude of
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For transient sorrows, simple wiles
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And shaped these pleasant walks by
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That poorly satisfy our eyes, More
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Out of old mythologies From heel to
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Wherever green is worn, Are changed
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A shudder in the loins engenders th
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That young men, tossing on their be
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World-besotted traveller; he Served
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What lively lad most pleasured me O
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‘The Complaint: Night Thoughts’
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Don’t go on looking at me like th
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