Library archivist Stella Halkyard said that because of his obscurity, Blake had also been an engraver and "produced a wide variety of work".
The still-touring singer, whose grip on public affection in France is matched only by his obscurity elsewhere, says that 70% of his earnings go to the state.
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He lived the rest of his life in obscurity, traumatized and debilitated by his war experience.
As soon as Gombrowicz had resigned himself to a life of obscurity, his reputation caught up with him.
So did both Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, and, surprisingly, George W. Bush, who stirred from his post-presidential obscurity to ring Mr Cameron and urge him to bring the UUP into line.
Herrmann was discouraged by the obscurity of his concert music compared to his film scores, and this underperformed Quintet, a final resurrection of the lost Madeleine (his somber string quartet "Echoes" had resuscitated her two years earlier), indicates he had every reason to be.
Extradited to Germany in late 1956, he served his jail term, and then faded into obscurity, eking out a living as a self-styled expressionist for his remaining thirty-two years.
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FDR's secretary of labour, whose picture he rescues from obscurity and hangs behind his desk.
The star of the lecture circuit at the time was Sir Humphry Davy, who plucked Faraday from obscurity to work as his laboratory assistant.
These days he runs against ever-dwindling fields -- on this occasion just three rivals went to the start, and that included stable companion Bullet Train, whose sole purpose in life is to give Frankel a flying start in his races then humbly fade into obscurity in the final furlongs.
Pereira named it Ilha do Cerne, the Island of the Swan, after his ship, then sailed away to obscurity.
In the first scene, this Bond loses track of stolen information and is shot for his efforts, then spends months in obscurity overindulging in alcohol and wordlessly feeling sorry for himself.
Slapping the stylish silver device down on his coffee table, the man who emerged from obscurity to run Compaq, a company whose name became synonymous with personal computing, makes it clear he wants to break with the past.
Mr Bush plucked him from (lucrative) obscurity as a Houston property lawyer to make him his general counsel in 1995, when he became governor of Texas.
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He went away, played in obscurity and then, suddenly, he's leading his team out against John Terry.
He sees his blackness as a liability, and associates it with the poverty and obscurity he has worked so hard to put behind him.
Before being plucked from obscurity, he had enjoyed a respectable career as a chemistry teacher (sulphur dioxide was his speciality) at a technical university in the grim industrial south.
Baron d'Holbach published most of his works under pseudonyms, which helped to keep him safe but also condemned him to centuries of philosophical obscurity (except in the officially godless Soviet Union).
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