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“A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ece2be262dafa835459df92f3da7955aba28aa72fa2b3a9546df3bd4b6598118
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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