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Synopsis
Excerpt from Madame De Stael, Vol. 14: Her Trials and Triumphs
IN the year 1751 a young fellow, only fourteen years of age, went to Magdalen College at Oxford, and in the same year displayed his budding talent by writing The Age of Sesostris, Conqueror of Asia, which work he burnt in later years.
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