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Richard Crashaw offers the hope of eternity for wedded love.
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Orpheus would lose his beloved wife Eurydice to death not once, but twice.
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(That’s cat-tails, obviously.) And who ever said cats were unpredictable?
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The extraordinary productivity and social mobility of the Victorian era is to the credit not of the governing class, but of the working man.
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A warning not to be forgetful of others, even in triumph.
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Sending a hero off to ‘certain death’ never seems to work out...