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“So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 517348e94995bcb83744f71f3bf19dc9370ff5b6603eee549c7e8b1d4a82b779
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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