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reading either continuous or desultory either
For reading either continuous or desultory, either grave or gay, at all times of life and in all moods of temper, there are few authors who stand the test of practice so well as the author of The Anatomy of Melancholy .
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

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