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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,— Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse.
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,— Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse.
Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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- Walter Savage Landor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
To Robert Browning.
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