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Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Molière

Molière

French dramatist

Desiderius Erasmus

Erasmus

Dutch humanist

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Horace

Roman poet

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Alexander Pope

English author

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Lord Byron

Lord Byron

British poet

François Rabelais

François Rabelais

French author

Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth

Henry Fielding

English author

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

Nikolay Gogol

Nikolay Gogol

Ukrainian-born writer

Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.

Heinrich Heine

German author

André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.

André Gide

French writer

Aristophanes

Aristophanes

Greek dramatist

August Strindberg

August Strindberg

Swedish dramatist

Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Samuel Butler

English author [1835-1902]

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Gaius Petronius Arbiter

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Seneca

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Lucian

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