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... poem does refer to particular horrors such as the notorious excise tax ; the defence in Parliament of Spain's right to stop and search ships ; or the daily Government ' news ' sheet , the Gazetteer . But these more precise details are ...
... poem does refer to particular horrors such as the notorious excise tax ; the defence in Parliament of Spain's right to stop and search ships ; or the daily Government ' news ' sheet , the Gazetteer . But these more precise details are ...
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... poem , compassion ( except to the very select group of supporters ) is the last emotion one expects to see invoked . Yet repeatedly , the poem , in Thales ' hands , seems to turn to melancholy themes of man's perennial , pitiable unhap ...
... poem , compassion ( except to the very select group of supporters ) is the last emotion one expects to see invoked . Yet repeatedly , the poem , in Thales ' hands , seems to turn to melancholy themes of man's perennial , pitiable unhap ...
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... poem is not Johnson's impeccable orthodoxy , but his sense of at once the farce and the pity of his fellow man . The Vanity of Human Wishes is so great a poem as seriously to challenge the view of him as , by nature , a writer of prose ...
... poem is not Johnson's impeccable orthodoxy , but his sense of at once the farce and the pity of his fellow man . The Vanity of Human Wishes is so great a poem as seriously to challenge the view of him as , by nature , a writer of prose ...
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surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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