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Page 53
... never forgot good manners , even in the highest warmth of familiarity and ... never went in a dirty shirt to disgrace the table of his patron or his friend.4 Yet it was this fribble and adventurer , with his clean neck - cloth and his ...
... never forgot good manners , even in the highest warmth of familiarity and ... never went in a dirty shirt to disgrace the table of his patron or his friend.4 Yet it was this fribble and adventurer , with his clean neck - cloth and his ...
Page 131
... never , so to speak , fail safe ; his more outré effects seem ridicu- lously overdone today , but there is a real power in the best sections of Night - Thoughts , especially the first and fifth . Young's obsession with death was no ...
... never , so to speak , fail safe ; his more outré effects seem ridicu- lously overdone today , but there is a real power in the best sections of Night - Thoughts , especially the first and fifth . Young's obsession with death was no ...
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... never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains , Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease , Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home - spun dress in simple neatness lies , And for no glaring ...
... never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains , Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease , Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home - spun dress in simple neatness lies , And for no glaring ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
Copyright | |
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