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Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.
Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.
Approximate author period: c. 1769 AD · early modern
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- James Beattie
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- Approximate author period: c. 1769 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Minstrel. Book i. Stanza 25.
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