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Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Hands
Hand
Trees
States
Beauty
Fully
Freshest
Much
Though
Everywhere
Plantations
State
Sight
Clothed
Known
Green
Lawns
Actually
Remains
Farther
Eye
Tree
Delightful
Given
Imagination
Fell

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