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Academic Focus: Metric analysis / Historical dialect interpretation. Engaging with diverse historical English builds phonetic agility, linguistic empathy, and reading stamina valued in selective entry exams.

Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly,

May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely,

As thou pliest thy trade in this devil's-smithy--

Which is the poison to poison her, prithee?

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To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–182219th centuryRomanticism Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet celebrated for his lyrical brilliance, radical politics, and philosophical reach. Though not widely honored during his lifetime, he became a major influence on later poets through works that fuse political idealism with meditations on beauty, liberty, and mortality.

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  • Birth date: 4 August 1792
  • Death date: 8 July 1822
  • Nationality: English

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