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Leigh

Town in Greater Manchester, England, 9 km/6 mi southeast of Wigan; population (2001) 25,500. It has engineering industries, chiefly electrical. Leigh was traditionally a coal and cotton town.



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And he saw an old room he knew well in England, and Persis Leigh in it, holding out her hands to him and looking glad and happy.
I am glad to remember that at the same time I exulted in these ferocities I had mind enough and heart enough to find pleasure in the truer and finer work, the humaner work of other writers, like Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt, and Lamb, which became known to me at a date I cannot exactly fix.
His body, cast on the shore, was burned in the presence of Byron and another radical, Leigh Hunt, and the ashes were buried in the Protestant cemetery just outside the wall of Rome, where Keats had been interred only a year earlier.
 
 
 
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