Edward Gibbon/early Life - 1737-1752

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    “My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “At the earliest ending of winter,
    In March, a scrawny cry from outside
    Seemed like a sound in his mind.
    He knew that he heard it,
    A bird’s cry, at daylight or before,
    In the early March wind.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
    Their life a general mist of error,
    Their death a hideous storm of terror.”
    —John Webster (c. 1580–1638)