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“O thou! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book i. Line 19.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0f5f3637d440dab2fa8270a0de9344ca3ea21a20b1caeac6531f950411b60414
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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