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Title: Absence
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Lamenting the absence of a lover, and describing the pain men feel in this situation
Title: To a candle
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Comparison of the writer's life, both happy and sad from unrequited love, with that of a candle
Title: To sleep: an elegy
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Address to the personification of sleep, complaining of its powers and how it deserts those who are victims of unrequited love
Title: Of pleasing; An epistle to Sr Rd T--e [Sir Richard Temple]
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Lighthearted satire on mankind's impulse to please, arising from vanity and usually involving perversion of natural qualities; in the form of an epistle to Sir Richard Temple (later Viscount Cobham), praising his unaffected virtues