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Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . Sabbathless Satan!
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . Sabbathless Satan!
Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- Charles Lamb
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- Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Work.
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