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... walks a broad road , but here he seems to tread along a line , and the slightest deviation un- does him " ; he falls ... walking a high and perilous wire.1 Goldsmith's most interesting use of the image occurs in his discussion of the ...
... walks a broad road , but here he seems to tread along a line , and the slightest deviation un- does him " ; he falls ... walking a high and perilous wire.1 Goldsmith's most interesting use of the image occurs in his discussion of the ...
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... walk forward to im- mortality in the warm sunshine of sycophantic applause ( 1 : 231 , 472 , 473– 74 ; 2:15 , 309 ) . Obituary and elegy , which are so often the " paltry escutcheons of flattery " ( 1 : 166 ) , are also therefore the ...
... walk forward to im- mortality in the warm sunshine of sycophantic applause ( 1 : 231 , 472 , 473– 74 ; 2:15 , 309 ) . Obituary and elegy , which are so often the " paltry escutcheons of flattery " ( 1 : 166 ) , are also therefore the ...
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... walk in the pageant , but fools bustle and are important ; and this , probably , is all the difference between them " ( 2 : 470 ) . Laughter will at least show us to be possessed of a sense of proportion , and will perhaps hold at bay ...
... walk in the pageant , but fools bustle and are important ; and this , probably , is all the difference between them " ( 2 : 470 ) . Laughter will at least show us to be possessed of a sense of proportion , and will perhaps hold at bay ...
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