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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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Epitaph on Claude Phillips

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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pitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, baronettum Paraphrase of the above, by Dr. Johnson To Miss Hickman, playing on the spinet Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. vi. verses 6-11 Horace, lib. iv. ode vii. translated Anacreon, ode ix Lines written in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777 Parody of a translation from the Medea of Euripides
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