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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Music"
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"Poetry"
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Work title:
"On Hearing Miss ----- Sing [from Poems on Several Occasions]"
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Date: 1762
"Yet, if too soon this transient Pleasure fly, / A Charm more lasting shall the Loss supply: / While Harmony, with each attractive Grace, / Plays in the fair Proportions of her Face; / Where each soft Air, engaging and serene, / Beats Measure to the well-tun'd Mind within."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)