“What strange arts necessity finds out.”
Venus, Act I, scene i, line 169
Dido (c. 1586)
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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593Related quotes
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Letter One (17 February 1903)
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in posthumous publications
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Richard Franck (1858–1938) German composer
Northern Memoirs, written in 1658 and published in 1694 along with another work by Franck, The Contemplative and Practical Angler
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The Time of the Hero (1963)