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- Logomachy
- n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem — a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.
- ’Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton’s pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton’s wit we perish too.
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