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As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.
Approximate author period: c. 1694 AD · renaissance
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- Samuel Garth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1694 AD · renaissance
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote1395 · printed citation: SAMUEL GARTH: Dispensatory, Canto iii., Line 27.
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