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Sydney Smith

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Born January 1, 1771
Died January 1, 1845 (74 years old)
Woodford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Also known as: Rev. Sydney Smith, Reverend Sydney Smith
19 books
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founder of The Edinburgh review

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Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition

James Joyce, Tony Blair, Bei Dao, Confucius, Saki, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Addison, Doris Lessing, Stephen Spender, Sir Philip Sidney, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Philip Larkin, Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Babington Macaulay, A. E. Housman, Arthur Rimbaud, Sydney Smith, Tu Fu, Nadine Gordimer, Edmund Spenser, Sophocles, Rudyard Kipling, Brooke, Rupert, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Anita Desai, Elizabeth Bowen, John Keats, Walter Raleigh, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ovid, Thomas Jefferson, Arthur C. Clarke, W. H. Auden, Lord Byron, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Marlowe, Όμηρος, Edgar Allan Poe, Suckling, John Sir, Joanna Baillie, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Trevor, Emily Brontë, Alan Sillitoe, Richard Lovelace, John Donne, George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Derek Walcott, Sappho, Alexander Pope, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Gray, Jonathan Swift, Muriel Spark, Jane Austen, Siegfried Sassoon, Pablo Neruda, Charles Baudelaire, Charlotte Brontë, Anna Quindlen, Kobayashi, Issa, Thomas Malory, Thomas More, Ted Hughes, Anna Akhmatova, Eavan Boland, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Heinrich Heine, Francis Jeffrey, Buson Yosa, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Yehuda Amichai, Daniel Defoe, Seamus Heaney, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, William Blake, T. S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Francesco Petrarca, Matthew Arnold, Mary Shelley, John Milton, V. S. Naipaul, Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson
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Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth

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A satiric statement on the ubiquity of taxes, probably written by Sydney Smith; profile portrait of Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux at top, his coat-of-of arms at bottom with inscription "rege, lege, grege."