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Page 72
... social risks . He perfected an insolence that is a blunter kind of rail- lery : “ Nash , though no great wit , had the art of sometimes saying rude things with decency , and rendering them pleasing by an uncommon turn " ( 3 : 356 ) ...
... social risks . He perfected an insolence that is a blunter kind of rail- lery : “ Nash , though no great wit , had the art of sometimes saying rude things with decency , and rendering them pleasing by an uncommon turn " ( 3 : 356 ) ...
Page 104
... social ease , Pleased with thyself , whom all the world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , With tuneless pipe , beside the murmuring Loire ? Where shading elms along the margin grew , And freshened from the wave the ...
... social ease , Pleased with thyself , whom all the world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , With tuneless pipe , beside the murmuring Loire ? Where shading elms along the margin grew , And freshened from the wave the ...
Page 131
... social norms and proprieties are reestablished , and property is restored to its right- ful owner ; Marlow duly prepares to leave . That Goldsmith , for all the seri- ousness of his moral protest , is content to treat disruptive social ...
... social norms and proprieties are reestablished , and property is restored to its right- ful owner ; Marlow duly prepares to leave . That Goldsmith , for all the seri- ousness of his moral protest , is content to treat disruptive social ...
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