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Work title:
"On Happiness"
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Date: 1732
"Distrest by a confused Medley of thinking, she threw herself carelesly on a Couch, where amid a Chaos of Reflection, she slept, if, we can properly be said to sleep, (when the Mind fir'd by warring Passions, dreams 'em o'er again) the Chamber Door had but negligently fell too, for the unthinking...
preview | full record— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)