| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8277 |
| QUOTATION: | And Reason kens he herits in
A haunted house. Tenants unknown
Assert their squalid lease of sin
With earlier title than his own. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert Bridges (1844–1930), British poet, critic. Low Barometer (l. 9–12). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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