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While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!
While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!
Approximate author period: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- John Trumbull
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- Approximate author period: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 207 · quotation 4 · John Trumbull · McFingal. Canto III. L. 21.
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