It's certain there is no fine thing
Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Necessity of work Work

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

Adam's Curse

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Adam's Curse." In the Seven Woods. Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, 1903.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Adam's Curse." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

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Source
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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, edited by Peter Stoneley. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 2.