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... died in infancy . The same year , on April 23 , his reputed birthday , Shakespeare died , aged fifty - two . His wife survived him until 1623 , the same year in which the first collected folio edition of Shakespeare's works appeared ...
... died in infancy . The same year , on April 23 , his reputed birthday , Shakespeare died , aged fifty - two . His wife survived him until 1623 , the same year in which the first collected folio edition of Shakespeare's works appeared ...
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... died , and four years later Cowper himself died , worn out with sorrow and disease . He was a man of singularly lovable disposition . The most gentle and charitable of beings , he yet , under the influence of the morbid taint which ...
... died , and four years later Cowper himself died , worn out with sorrow and disease . He was a man of singularly lovable disposition . The most gentle and charitable of beings , he yet , under the influence of the morbid taint which ...
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... died very suddenly at Vienna . His loss was felt keenly by Tennyson . For a time all things were dark to him , and ... died October 6 , 1892 . It has seldom been the fate of any poet to be so appreciated , honoured , and respected ...
... died very suddenly at Vienna . His loss was felt keenly by Tennyson . For a time all things were dark to him , and ... died October 6 , 1892 . It has seldom been the fate of any poet to be so appreciated , honoured , and respected ...
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