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Born the same year as James Madison, Judith Sargent Murray shared her great contemporary's fascination with the laws of nature and the rights of human beings.
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Naturally, Mr. Mullineaux took issue with his estranged contemporary's critique.
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Naturally, Mr. Mullineaux took issue with his estranged contemporary's critique.
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Although he did not "authorise" the book, he gave several interviews for it and answered - perhaps naively - the question about his Oxford contemporary's death.
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Synopsis: A painter named Harry, madly in love from afar with a contemporary's wife named Aurora, calls on the Muses to help him find true inspiration for the one great painting.
REVIEW: Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2006
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But while it is true that there is more melodic invention in some of Mozart's recitatives than in many a contemporary's symphony, the musical weight he accords a single moment such as that of three men fighting to get through a door, is what ties music and action so closely together.
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SHENKMAN: In the cases of Harry Truman, for instance, and Dwight Eisenhower, for instance and even Lyndon Johnson, the verdict of history has tended to be a lot higher than the contemporary's version.
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We are glad to note that in the same article there is a subsequent and reassuring reference to our contemporary's "well-deserved reputation for straightforwardness and accuracy."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 Various
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Beattie refers to a contemporary's "reptile Muse, swollen from the sty."
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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It is possible that Dr. BETHMANN-HOLLWEG was misled by our contemporary's habit of publishing its "7.0 Edition" at 4.30.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 Various
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