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Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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The sovereign brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red. To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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Born:
June 2, 1840
Died:
January 11, 1928
(aged 87)
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