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Date: 1727
"Death from this coarse Alloy refines the Mind."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)