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78 The allusions, however, are not always to vulgar things: he offends by exaggeration as much as by diminution:

Whatever he writes is always polluted with some conceit:

In one passage he starts a sudden question, to the confusion of philosophy:

His expressions have sometimes a degree of meanness that surpasses expectation:

In a simile descriptive of the morning:

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