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“In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deserted Village. Line 209.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bfab639d6af332717244e302774ccf53f2ddb4b937ce6a02b1802069ecdff95a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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