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“Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.”
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- Source:
- Under Mr. Milton's Picture.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6575590de00b09838cbeb8d6587ebf0b1d0a4b8ff5bcacaeeef0c9a1acc0687f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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