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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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