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INDEX/BCMSV/1143

1695

Description of a gloomy place devoid of all light and natural life; the opening twelve lines of Congreve's "The Mourning Muse of Alexis",

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INDEX/BCMSV/1980

1692 (published)

On human mortality and the inevitability and universality of death;

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INDEX/BCMSV/2743

1692 (published)

On human mortality and the inevitability and universality of death. Paraphrasing Horace, Odes, II.14.

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INDEX/BCMSV/2744

1692 (published)

Horace, Odes, I.9, an exhortation to enjoy life's present pleasures while young

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INDEX/BCMSV/2746

1692 (published)

In praise of the beautiful singing voice of Mrs Arabella Hunt

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INDEX/BCMSV/363

1693 (published)

Song expressing content with the love of an unfaithful woman, despite the disapproval of others. Sung in Act V of Thomas Southerne's play "The Maid's

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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,