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Page 171
... pains , but celibacy has no pleasures ' ( ibid . ) . Again the Prince accuses her of pessimism , but then proceeds to undermine his case in his own picture of the pains he found in public life and in his admitted hope that Nekayah's ...
... pains , but celibacy has no pleasures ' ( ibid . ) . Again the Prince accuses her of pessimism , but then proceeds to undermine his case in his own picture of the pains he found in public life and in his admitted hope that Nekayah's ...
Page 183
... pains which nature and not man causes , pains therefore ( in Crabbe's own view ) unrectifiable . Like Goldsmith in The Deserted Village ( 287 ff . ) , Crabbe at one point compares the land to a woman , and like Goldsmith's , the ...
... pains which nature and not man causes , pains therefore ( in Crabbe's own view ) unrectifiable . Like Goldsmith in The Deserted Village ( 287 ff . ) , Crabbe at one point compares the land to a woman , and like Goldsmith's , the ...
Page 189
... pains of the great as imaginary , because distant from real pains , he now argues , And you , ye poor , who still lament your fate , Forbear to envy those you call the great ; And know , amid those blessings they posses , They are ...
... pains of the great as imaginary , because distant from real pains , he now argues , And you , ye poor , who still lament your fate , Forbear to envy those you call the great ; And know , amid those blessings they posses , They are ...
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