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Join the roomJohn Norton Bartlett foi um jogador de críquete inglês, nascido em Mickleover, Derbyshire, que jogou por Oxford University e Sussex entre 1946 e 1953. Ele apareceu em 49 partidas de primeira classe como um batedor destro que arremessava spin ortodoxo com o braço esquerdo. Ele marcou 351 corridas com uma pontuação mais alta de 28 e pegou 107 wickets com uma melhor performance de cinco por 77. Sua morte foi anunciada em junho de 2014.
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“The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become "household words," and "to restore to the temples of poetry the many beautiful fragments which have been stolen from them, and built into the heavy walls of prose."”
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