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Fames, giving King shared company with the likes of George Gershwin,
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This common misery of theirs must needs distract, make them discontent and melancholy, as ordinarily they are, wayward, peevish, like a weary traveller, for [2300] Fames et mora bilem in nares conciunt, still murmuring and repining: Ob inopiam morosi sunt, quibus est male, as Plutarch quotes out of
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Now more than a quarter century later, in Hall of Fames terms, rap has come of age.
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Sir _Richard_, charging them be dombe From threatning words, from anger, and from bloes, But with all kindnes, honor, and admire To bring him thence, to further _Fames_ desire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now above all Remembrances by which men have endeavoured even in despight of Death, to give unto their Fames eternity, for Worthiness and Continuance, Books, and Writings, have ever had the Preheminence; which made _Ovid_ to give an endless Date to himself, and to his
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Poems have made mens Fames live to eternity; therefore it were pity
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Such a name, in truth, does not need the assistance of owl-winged cherubs, brawny Fames, and blubbering
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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In the judgment of Kirkman, his friend, the old actor, was "the happiest interpreter and judg of our English stage-Playes this Nation ever produced; which the Poets and Actors these times cannot (without ingratitude) deny; for I have heard the chief, and most ingenious of them, acknowledg their Fames and Profits essentially sprung from your instructions, judgment, and fancy."
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892
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Of your gracious fauer I despaire not, for I am not altogether Fames out-cast ...
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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If I had been taken into a hospital at that minute, the doctors would have had to write over my bed: _Fames_, a disease which is not in the manuals of medicine.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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