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Sir Morris Abbot,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre
His conceptions were ardent but ludicrous, and his memory, aided, as he honestly acknowledged, by his invention, was an inexhaustible fund of entertainment.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
“An illness which has long hung about me in all probability will speedily send me beyond that bourne whence no traveler returns.” Even on his deathbed, Burns could turn a phrase. Within a few decades of Burns’s death,
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
I’d strongly recommend the American poet Robert Frost who rhymes in a way that you almost don’t notice, his vocabulary is so natural.