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Charles Dickens died of apoplexy.
Man was made to mourn.
Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" when advanced in life.
The poet Gray was a ripe scholar.
The minstrel boy to the wars has gone.
Lord Lytton is a most accomplished author.[1]
King Theodore was slain at Magdala.
"Lothair" is a well-known novel by Disraeli.
Have you read the “ History of England” by Macaulay?
Speke travelled in Africa.
Harold the Dauntless was killed at Hastings.
Napoleon, as well as Hannibal, crossed the Alps.
Nelson was killed at Trafalgar in 1805.
"Hearts of oak," our captains cried.
Ernest Jones died in comparative poverty.
The oratory of John Bright is impulsive.
Edinburgh derives its name from Edwin, a Northumbrian prince.
Bad spelling evinces a very defective education.
To learn to spell correctly is no very easy accomplishment.
Dr Hunter, the great anatomist, could not spell correctly.
Bonaparte was banished to the isle of Elba.
The poet Dryden wrote some very keen satire.
Pitt, Lord Chatham, was buried with great ceremony in Westminster Abbey.
Pitt's grave is very near to that of Fox.
Fielding, a bookseller, wrote "Pamela," a novel, with a strictly moral aim.
Cowper, diseased in mind, wrote in intervals of temporary sanity.
Goldsmith studied medicine for sometime in Edinburgh.
- ↑ "Lord Lytton" and "author" are both subject, and so with all nouns or their equivalents when agreeing in tense, or signifying the same thing, the one comes before and the other after the verb To Be.
