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The distressed poet. An angry milkmaid is collecting money from the poet's abode. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Wellcome Collection

The distressed poet. An angry milkmaid is collecting money from the poet's abode. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

William Hogarth · 1797

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plunge'd for his sense, but found...

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