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“Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 342.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 74da78efa04abf11439ff1f8173a6b1c4c363842261afc246db1bfe92baf3245
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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