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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

William Shenstone

William Shenstone

English Poet

Born: Nov 18, 1714

Died: Feb 11, 1763

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Poetry, Consumption, Most, Diseases, Flattering

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Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth

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