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INDEX/BCMSV/2986

1743 (title)

Expressing desire for the happiness and peace of mind which being neither weighted with the cares of the great nor fearful of poverty brings; perhaps inspired by Horace, Odes, I.10.

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INDEX/BCMSV/2987

174- ?

Comparing a lady's frown to clouded skies

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INDEX/BCMSV/2988

1750

Song on the impossibility of hiding his love or of gaining a favourable response to it; published in 1790 with a date of 1750

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INDEX/BCMSV/2989

1749 (published)

Love song in which the woman explains she has been making trial of her lover, feigning disdain to test his constancy; printed in 'Six new English songs'

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INDEX/BCMSV/2990

174- ?

Elegiac lament on the death of John Milton, arguing that his blindness cannot be deplored since it fired his imagination; with an echo of Alexander Pope's 'Epitaph' of 1720

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INDEX/BCMSV/2991

174- ?

Acrostic on the word 'satire', asserting its moral and critical function

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INDEX/BCMSV/2992

1747

Satire on the concept of value, describing the tyranny of custom and fashion over virtue, merit and truth in private and public morality

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INDEX/BCMSV/2994

174- ?

Song on the ease with which it is possible to gain the love, if not the body, of a fashionable young lady

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INDEX/BCMSV/2995

174- ?

Satirical drinking song in which the honesty of the friendship between drinkers is contrasted with the corruption of politics

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INDEX/BCMSV/2996

1751 (published)

Pastoral love song in which a rustic swain sings the praises of the virtuous Dolly, having freed himself from the beautiful but cold Molly. Printed three times in 1751, the first time as 'A new song. Sung by Mr [John] Beard, at Ranelagh Gardens'.

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INDEX/BCMSV/2997

175- ?

Song in which a young compares her feelings at being abandoned by her lover, Strephon, with a flower deprived of sunlight

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INDEX/BCMSV/2998

175- ?

Song duet on the amorous pursuits possible after harvest