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[bohst] / boʊst /






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The society has commissioned poets Ruth Padel, Rachael Boast and Will Harris to write poems inspired by Keats.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2021

Kingdoms, by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own; At every draught more large and large they grow A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2020

Russell Boast, president of the Casting Society of America, has made it a cause for casting directors.

From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2018

“Because myths are right at the foundations of our culture, they sort of set the terms of the discussion, for better and for worse,” says Mr. Boast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2018

Boast not, proud Golgotha, that thou canst show The ruins of mankind, and let us know How frail a thing is flesh! though we see there But empty skulls, the Rabbins still live here.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)




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