alcohol

beer

Cambridge

life

meaning

nationality

British

occupation / innovator as

poet

classical scholar

innovator in the field of

classics

university teacher

classical philologist

is full of more wisdom than poetry --- Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

is glorious --- malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man

is an asylum, in every sense of the word.

is less than a thousand months long so one would do wise to make some time to think how to live it.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

is not always best drawn out. Perfect understanding extinguishes pleasure.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

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