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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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