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What fitter birthplace for the poet whom a comrade has called the "Subtlest Assertor of the Soul in Song", the poet whose writings are indeed a mirror of the age?

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William

What fitter birthplace for the poet whom a comrade has called the "Subtlest Assertor of the Soul in Song," the poet whose writings are indeed a mirror of the age?

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William

But ’tis a Truth that entertains you with so many Accidents diverting and moving, that they will need both a Patron, and an Assertor in this incredulous World.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague

Nor was he less serviceable to the Royal Cause with his Pen, of which he was a resolute Assertor: Suffering very much by Imprisonment, even to the apparent hazard of his Life.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley