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“Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.”
Provenance
- Source:
- London, 1802.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eba995f3b1faa44ac07e98be4bcdb2f6c75e393697a2c97fc7f4d9fff428498a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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