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Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
Approximate author period: c. 1793 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- George Crabbe
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- Approximate author period: c. 1793 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Parish Register. Part i. Introduction.
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