William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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Alas
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well"
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]"
Euripides
Playwright
"Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved."
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"Alas! never had I loved him so well!"
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"Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time."
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"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"
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"Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!"
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