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- Robert Browning

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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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William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth1770–185018th-19th centuryRomanticism William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who helped launch the Romantic Age through Lyrical Ballads, written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His poetry elevated ordinary experience, memory, and the restorative power of nature into central subjects of modern lyric verse.

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  • Birth date: 7 April 1770
  • Death date: 23 April 1850
  • Nationality: English

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