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A wealthy heir, ruined by dissipation, in Crabbe’s Borough.
“Misery and mirth are blended in his face,
Much innate vileness and some outward grace: …
The serpent’s cunning and the sinner’s fall.”
Lette xiv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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