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somebody in lack of employment discovers
When Caius Scriblerius prints his lyric about the light of Amatoria's eyes, which disperses his melancholy moods, the average public, at least in Boston, cares nothing for it, until somebody in lack of employment discovers that as Saint Patrick's snakes were heathen rites, and as Beatrice Portinari was a system of philosophy, so Amatoria's eyes personify the sun-myth.
— from Patrins To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second by Louise Imogen Guiney

soul its life on earth depends
“A picture is a soul; its life on earth depends upon the body that it inhabits; and we have not yet found out how to make its body immortal.
— from In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

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