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A Speech Delivered by the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Grant Duff, G.C.S.I, Pres. Roy. Hist. Soc, Chairman of the Gibbon Commemoration Meeting, November 15, 1894

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

M. E. Grant Duff
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It has been said with perhaps too much truth—Earth plays the step-dame to her poets ever, Then grieves and gives them fame, As if they cared to hear by God's great river The echo of their name.

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Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 9 , December 1895 , pp. 25 - 29
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1895

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