“More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.”

St. 48.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

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British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

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