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It was a soufflé of a speech, light, pleasant, digestible, and nourishing also.

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Poor playthings of the man that's gone,
Surely we would not have them thrown,
Like wreckage on a barren strand,
The prey of every greedy hand.

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Frederick York Powell

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Born: January 4, 1850
Died: May 8, 1904 (aged 54)
Bio: Frederick York Powell was an English historian and scholar.
Known for:
  1. Old Stories From British History
  2. Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror (1881)

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