Source: Immortality, Inc. (1959), Chapter 15 (p. 71)
“Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed
Of knightly counsel and heroic deed).”
Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 121, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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