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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere

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I search among my friends—none can I find,
No sterling unadulterated mind;
None that abides the crucible like mine
Rising above the standard—superfine!