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Title: An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex
Mrs. Mary Blaize
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott
Release Date: November 20, 2005 [EBook #17117]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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An ELEGY on the GLORY of her SEX
Mrs Mary BLAIZE
R. Caldecott's PICTURE Books
Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd.]
An Elegy
on the Glory of Her Sex
MRS. MARY BLAIZE
by
Dr. Oliver Goldsmith
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Good people all,
with one accord,
Lament for
Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted
a good word--
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From those
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who spoke her praise.
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