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“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- a645a733a9a3d8f9ae3d28b2c4c68ad72369bd98dd42d782590a987dfb9141d5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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