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“The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Excursion. Book iii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d9974adaee03f1ecb8a132d88fbf230b8fca7d51433570f3f600d41ce5518498
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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