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Drayton

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Dray·ton  (drtn), Michael 1563-1631.
English poet who produced a wide range of works, including sonnets, dramas, satires, and eclogues, such as those in Idea, The Shepherd's Garland (1593).
Drayton [ˈdreɪtən]
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(Biographies / Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) M, English, WRITING: poet) Michael. 1563-1631, English poet. His work includes odes and pastorals, and Poly-Olbion (1613-22), on the topography of England
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And as it is part of the American temperament to foresee everything in business, even failure, the Honorable Harry Trolloppe, judge commissioner, and Francis Drayton, magistrate, were nominated beforehand!
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Dorothea, he said to himself, was forever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool; and if he could have written out in immortal syllables the effect she wrought within him, he might have boasted after the example of old Drayton, that,--
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
hag was not a word of reproach: Drayton speaks of a "beautiful hag,
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
 
 
 
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