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“The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Corsair. Preface.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3b2ca1c408f2594e21880841c2d7d0a596c00f339cd90697d96a4cb5993e0326
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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