quote · Legacy record
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
Approximate author period: c. 1835 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1835 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Crowned and buried. xxvii.
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