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Date: 1691
" And that it was the practice of Youth (who like the Sun oft rises clear and dancing, though he sets in a Cloud) to look upon distant Prospects with a magnifying Fancy, laying these weighty Matters together, I resolved now to ride at Anchor one seven years within the sound of Bow-Bell."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1913
"But there was a twist in his brain which made his pictures of real life appear like scenes looked at through flawed glass."
preview | full record— Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)
