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“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.”
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- Source:
- Sonnet lv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bacfea61d11d6f38ac49373ca109bbbaea6c8b9c9dc46ef2aa1ebf657fd1426b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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