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INDEX/BCMSV/1143
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
INDEX/BCMSV/1980
1692 (published)
On human mortality and the inevitability and universality of death;
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INDEX/BCMSV/2743
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
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
INDEX/BCMSV/2746
1692 (published)
In praise of the beautiful singing voice of Mrs Arabella Hunt
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INDEX/BCMSV/363
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
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
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
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
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
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
INDEX/BCMSV/771
1710 (published)
Comparison of the writer's life, both happy and sad from unrequited love,