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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
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Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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Born:
December 12, 1742
Died:
March 25, 1809
(aged 66)
Bio:
Anna Seward was a long-eighteenth-century English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield.
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Monody on Major Andrè
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