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“He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Lycidas. Line 188.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4bc35c3dbdde0a5fa83033802bcfc645f094389eaccf00353a1f8b6ea231016c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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