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  • I ought not to be so selfish as to bind your long and brilliant career to my so-soon out-worn life ....

    The Deserted Woman 2007

  • I ought not to be so selfish as to bind your long and brilliant career to my so-soon out-worn life ....

    The Deserted Woman 2007

  • There is assassination, sudden poverty, and the humour of drunkards and the philosophy of wastrels, and there is little but the out-worn theme of seduction, and perhaps a phrase or two of mechanical humour, to show that its author has not finished his artistic education.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • There is assassination, sudden poverty, and the humour of drunkards and the philosophy of wastrels, and there is little but the out-worn theme of seduction, and perhaps a phrase or two of mechanical humour, to show that its author has not finished his artistic education.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • There is assassination, sudden poverty, and the humour of drunkards and the philosophy of wastrels, and there is little but the out-worn theme of seduction, and perhaps a phrase or two of mechanical humour, to show that its author has not finished his artistic education.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • There is assassination, sudden poverty, and the humour of drunkards and the philosophy of wastrels, and there is little but the out-worn theme of seduction, and perhaps a phrase or two of mechanical humour, to show that its author has not finished his artistic education.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • In the old out-worn age, the Sovereign Pontiff was used to go in solemn pomp, and mark the renewal of the year by driving a nail in the gate of the temple of Janus.

    The Last Man 2003

  • There is assassination, sudden poverty, and the humour of drunkards and the philosophy of wastrels, and there is little but the out-worn theme of seduction, and perhaps a phrase or two of mechanical humour, to show that its author has not finished his artistic education.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • There is assassination, sudden poverty, and the humour of drunkards and the philosophy of wastrels, and there is little but the out-worn theme of seduction, and perhaps a phrase or two of mechanical humour, to show that its author has not finished his artistic education.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • His committee had completed its work, and his great plan was muscular and vertebrate in all its structure, for he contemplated a far-reaching system of legislation rather than a simple makeshift appropriation of the out-worn type; and the ultimate goal of it all was to lift the politics-ridden waterway out of politics altogether.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

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