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"Prose Fiction"
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"Male"
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Work title:
"Familiar Letters betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady [from The Works]"
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"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1725
"I wou'd have all those soft-hearted Ladies that are impress'd like Wax, read Quevedo's 'Vision of Loving-Fools.'"
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Date: 1725
"My Delia's Words still bear the Stamp of Wit, / Impress'd too plainly to be counterfeit: / Which, with the Weight of massy Reason join'd, / Declare the Strength and Quickness of her Mind; / Her Thoughts are noble, and her Sense refin'd."
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)