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“Silence, ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes night hideous;--answer him, ye owls!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 165.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fe2d518a8eb4527d77b1bd5f09eabd3ad9e57da10d3e1c530454fbdd2c3c95f1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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