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Chapter XXII · Chapter 22

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It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.
Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.
Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.
That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.
He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.
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Middlemarch

Chapter XXII · Chapter 22

Chapter 22 of Middlemarch is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/80 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.
Line 2
Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.
Line 3
Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.
Line 4
That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.
Line 5
He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

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a

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From this reading He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

against

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

although

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

and

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

argue

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

as

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From this reading He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

at

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

be

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

borrowed

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

both

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

BROWNE

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

but

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

by

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

cannot

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

commend

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

community

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

condemning

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

days

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

declaim

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

did

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

different

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

do

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

Dorothea

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

dunderheaded

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From this reading He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

Epidemica

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

expressions

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

extol

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

Fever

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

forefathers

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

had

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

handsomely

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

He

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From this reading He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

heads

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

help

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

Horace

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

Hospital

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

humor

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

in

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

indigitate

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

is

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

It

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

jealousy

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From this reading He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

Juvenal

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

lights

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

like

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

lines

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

Lydgate

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

many

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

mixture

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From this reading He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

New

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

no

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

notwithstanding

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

of

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

opposition

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

oppositions

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

other

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

our

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

own

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

past

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

Persius

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

point

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

prejudice

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From this reading He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

present

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

prophets

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

Pseudodoxia

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

regarded

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From this reading He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

satire

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

seem

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

SIR

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

sketched

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

That

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

the

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

their

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

therefore

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

they

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

THOMAS

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

times

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

to

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

vice

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

vices

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

viewed

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

was

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From this reading That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights.

were

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From this reading Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE: _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_.

Which

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

wickedness

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From this reading It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.

without

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From this reading Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.

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