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Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love?
Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love?
Approximate author period: c. 1695 AD · renaissance
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- Nicholas Rowe
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- Approximate author period: c. 1695 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Fair Penitent. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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