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“Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Line 556.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 964c03f6c4185abd805b1516c28eeca8611967dcb1c129cd77b5c40037d5b5c7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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