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He that outlives Nestor, and appears To have passed the date of grey Methusalem’s years, If he his life to sloth and sin doth give, I say he only was, he did not live.
He that outlives Nestor, and appears To have passed the date of grey Methusalem’s years, If he his life to sloth and sin doth give, I say he only was, he did not live.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Randolph (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 553 · printed citation: Thomas Randolph · subject: SLOTH
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