• In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

  Aubrey Beardsley
  
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1. unlettered
2. unmannered
3. wilderness
4. preterit
5. garden
6. boots

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? by : Aubrey Beardsley

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