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Title: The immortality of verse
Author: Evelyn, John
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On poetry's role as preserver of the memory of great men and the immortality of the poets compared to the transitory nature of material things. Transcription of 'The immortality of poesie', by John Evelyn, after Ovid 'To Envy', Amores, I.15
Title: Of the impertinence of common conversation
Author: Evelyn, John
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On the virtue of solitude and vanity and folly of contemporary pleasures and concerns. Transcription of 'Morose', by John Evelyn.