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“Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Masque of Hymen.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 740d1965ee6f2f51733c72c303499a3a0a134d34866ed756ee2b00b1c3b923f2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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