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- ↑ Swift, Jonathan (1733). On Poetry: a Rhapsody . Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ De Morgan, Augustus (1915). Smith, David Eugene (ed.). A Budget of Paradoxes. Vol. II (2nd ed.). p. 191.
