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INDEX/BCMSV/1551

174- or 175- ?

Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving at Christmas, imagining the blissful

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INDEX/BCMSV/174

1698 (title)

Bawdy love poem

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INDEX/BCMSV/1761

17--

Impressionistic description of 18th-century London, its greatly varying urban

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INDEX/BCMSV/1977

174- or 175- ?

Welcoming the prospect of death as providing rest and relief from all human

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INDEX/BCMSV/2351

1758 (published)

In praise of the beauty of nature in Spring, contrasting its annual renewal

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INDEX/BCMSV/6094

175- ?

Plea by a woman to be protected from the entanglements and emotions of love

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INDEX/BCMSV/6128

1790

Reflections on the word 'last', considering the transience of life, and the power of virtue to combat fear of death. Preceded by epigraph "What a desolate word is the monosyllable last!", attributed to Miss H. M. Williams.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6139

179-?

On the importance of sensibility, i.e. on how feeling another's joy or grief will provoke virtuous responses, yet also on how reason must temper extreme responses. Cf. BCMSV 6138

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INDEX/BCMSV/775

1724 (published)

Request that as her beauty diminishes her mind should improve

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INDEX/BCMSV/929

174- or 175- ?

Love poem, lament by a wife during her husband's absence in the navy during a

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INDEX/BCMSV/970

171- ?

Chronological survey of the great poets of Greece, Rome and England, from Homer to Alexander Pope, extravagantly praising those selected (sixteen