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“For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6906bb292ddc99c100077a93e0df65a718c17d24752a52e9c3968427c3f5660c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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