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INDEX/BCMSV/4522

1710 (published)

Arguing that the dictum 'know thyself' is a divine gift to enable people to guide their lives. Extract from Congreve's translation of Juvenal, "Satires", XI, with preceding Latin lines

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INDEX/BCMSV/6027

1710 (published)

Lamenting the absence of a lover, and describing the pain men feel in this situation

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INDEX/BCMSV/6031

1710 (published)

Comparison of the writer's life, both happy and sad from unrequited love, with that of a candle

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INDEX/BCMSV/6061

1710 (published)

Address to the personification of sleep, complaining of its powers and how it deserts those who are victims of unrequited love

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INDEX/BCMSV/6083

1710 (published)

Lighthearted satire on mankind's impulse to please, arising from vanity and usually involving perversion of natural qualities; in the form of an epistle to Sir Richard Temple (later Viscount Cobham), praising his unaffected virtues

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INDEX/BCMSV/771

1710 (published)

Comparison of the writer's life, both happy and sad from unrequited love,

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INDEX/BCMSV/772

1710 (published)

Light satire seemingly on Mrs Barry the actress, particularly on her

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INDEX/BCMSV/773

1710 (published)

Lighthearted satire on mankind's impulse to please, arising from vanity and usually involving perversion of natural qualities; in the form of an epistle to Sir Richard Temple (later Viscount Cobham), praising his unaffected

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INDEX/BCMSV/856

1708 (published)

Satirical ballad on the French defeat at the battle of Oudenarde, praising the Elector of Hanover (the future George I) and laughing at Louis XIV's