Regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry—including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism—as well as for his translation of Homer
Artist: Posselwhite
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John Law was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under the Duke of Orleans, who served as regent for the youthful king, Louis XV.
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The son of a silk manufacturer, Louis-Gabriel Suchet is considered to be one of Napoleon’s best marshals and he holds the distinction of being the only marshal who improved his reputation during the campaigns of the Peninsular War in Spain
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English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, he was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11.
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Poet and physician, best known for his poem The Pleasures of Imagination
Artist: A.Pond
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Scottish peer, scholar and publisher.
Artist: W.Hamilton
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British lawyer, Member of Parliament from 1790–1812 and Master of the Rolls from 1801–1817.
Artist: G.Harlow
Date:1833
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Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages
Artist: Reynolds
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential
Artist: Hall
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English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.
Artist: Hall
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