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The phœnix, Hope, can wing her flight / Through the vast deserts of the skies, / And still defying fortune's spite, / Revive and from her ashes rise.
The phœnix, Hope, can wing her flight / Through the vast deserts of the skies, / And still defying fortune's spite, / Revive and from her ashes rise.
Approximate author period: c. 1581 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- Miguel De Cervantes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1581 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1547–1616)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Cervantes. · page_447
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