Word: extremest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole the Augustan age of English literature ceased, and authorship became so precarious an avocation that many authors were reduced to the extremest straits and to absolute want...