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Okay, here is the next Literary trivia Question: Name the poet/essayist from the 17-18th centuries who wrote this:

"In this place everything I see or hear
Starts up an image of sweet remembrance,
Sweet in itself yet with intrusive pain:
The consciousness of present time, the vain
Desire to hold that very past, though it
Was sad, the uttering of the words, “I was.”


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  1. Virgil's Avatar
    I'll take a pure guess and say Samual Johnson.