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Explanation
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… humour is the saving grace of us, … (Para. 1) |
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But let me be between the sheets at a later hour, … (Para.
1) |
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When I’m in the humour I can compose grand symphonies,
… (Para. 2) |
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| 4)…
when it is time to close the five ports of knowledge,
… (Para. 3) |
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“lest too light winning make the prize light”. (Para.
3) |
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The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legion, ...
(Para. 5) |
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… who proses it away from morning to night, and never
gets beyond corporal and material verities! … (Para. 7) |
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I have literally found it answer …. (Para. 7) |
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… and we all have our Mr. H.’s (Para. 7) |
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| 10)
This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies
as jumping sheep and crooked pictures, and evoke the phantom
of a crushing, stupendous Bore. (Para. 7) |
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Supplementary
reading:
Lesson Fourteen The Odour of Cheese
in College English Book III.
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