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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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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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
LOUISA A POLITICAL NOVEL IN 4
LLANGOLLEN VALE W/OTHER POEMS
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