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“Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of English Verse.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 78f58a376b38776ffd1be1649557dbc5068d56651b8b95b48f7257590bb85e13
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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