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You love? That’s high as you shall go; For ’tis as true as Gospel text, Not noble then is never so, Either in this world or the next.
You love? That’s high as you shall go; For ’tis as true as Gospel text, Not noble then is never so, Either in this world or the next.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Author or tradition
- Coventry Patmore (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
In print by 1921: recorded in My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 156 · printed citation: Coventry Patmore (The Angel in the House). · compiler notes excluded
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