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Laura

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Laura, subject of the love poems of Petrarch Petrarch (pē`trärk) or Francesco Petrarca
..... Click the link for more information. . She is thought to be Laura de Noves (1308?–1348), wife of Hugo de Sade, but this has not been proved.
Laura
Petrarch’s perpetual, unattainable love. [Ital. Lit.: Plumb, 26–32]
See : Love, Virtuous
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Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking; Lady Dalrymple had taken a house, for three months, in Laura Place, and would be living in style.
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The water-colour drawing that I made of Laura Fairlie, at an after period, in the place and attitude in which I first saw her, lies on my desk while I write.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Stelling considered she was doing Tom a service by setting him to watch the little cherub Laura while the nurse was occupied with the sickly baby.
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