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“That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f6d954cd038a0c5113411cb17370bce429c065b7cb6aae1ed5f89b7a5b6dfac6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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