Job Strain

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“Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where
is the place thereof,”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. XXXVIII, 19)

“The standards of His Majesty’s taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strain and swell themselves, like the frogs in the fable, to rival and bulk and dignity of the ox. Some succeeded, and others burst.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)