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“The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cc4cd1a7f9124d6106d35d6bf56ddb7aa9d67d73d24f9b43217b2bebdd4af39c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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