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“Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b18e3d6bf4290054299555b89f9c556ae59b5399927ac5ca971a0864282f3037
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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