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An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex Mrs Mary Blaize - cover

An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex Mrs Mary Blaize

Oliver Goldsmith

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize is an illustrated poem penned by Oliver Goldsmith. Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish story writer, playwright, dramatist and lyricist. Excerpt: "But now, her wealth and finery fled,
Her hangers-on cut short-all:
The Doctors found, when she was dead
Her last disorder mortal.

Let us lament, in sorrow sore,
For Kent Street well may say,
That had she lived a twelvemonth more,—
She had not died to-day."
Available since: 03/16/2020.
Print length: 668 pages.

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