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“Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 4e2122d8bf3c3fded9b2a743014a9836802372591b7167b1f25256edce654351
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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