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“We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Milton. 1825.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 29a23ce7e9250775a55122dc41ccf9e73b94ee763382778d8490ae163a8eb353
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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