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playing sortes virgilianae with Middlemarch…
obsolescence
The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue. […]
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notions and scruples.
lost illusions
& gout