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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
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Sinks
Poetry
Moderate
Deal
Moderates
Deals
Fierce
Hand
Prose
Hands
Occasions
Certain
Bear
Great
Bears

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