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He's known as the 'King of The Cowboys'

Roy Rogers. The others did quite well, too

'First in war,first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen'

George Washington. It also used to be said that Washington 'was last in the American League'

She was known as the 'virgin queen'

Elizabeth I. Hence, 'Virginia'

He has been descriebd as 'the faultless painter' and the painter 'without error'

Andrea Del Sarto. The descriptions come from Vasari and Robert Browning, respectively

'The heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind'

Edgar Allan Poe. The poet Lowell said this of {Poe;} Poe was not pleased

'He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus'. Who is 'he'?

Julius Caesar. Cassius' comment about Caesar from Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'

'He loved not wisely, but too well'

Othello. Shakespeare again

He was known as the 'Little Giant'

Stephen Douglas. Now known only as a footnote to the story of Lincoln

He was known as the 'prince of players'

Edwin Booth. A theatrical family ... but this was said of Edwin

'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to the world: 'this was a man'. What play?

Julius Caesar. Shakespeare - again from 'Julius Caesar'