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“Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.”
Provenance
- Source:
- To the same Flower.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b37b004163f54529d84860927815b19ce40f9191cf9aa330257baf761e489534
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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