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“Made poetry a mere mechanic art.”
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- Source:
- Table Talk. Line 654.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ab3ffadcfdb662cca9ec73df3a6fd578d35abcc12d91bff5b6acd7c61668839d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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