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Title: On the Stroud Assembly 1753 addrest to a friend in town

Author: Dallaway, James

Attribution: James Dallaway

Date(s): 1753 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 83

Contents: Address to a friend in London, contrasting the dirt and affectation of city

life with the beauty and simple pleasures of the country, describing in

particular the virtue and value of people attending a ball at Stroud, naming

many of them.

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Title: An epitaph

Author: Dallaway, James

Attribution: James Dallaway

Date(s): 174- ?

Manuscript: Lt 83

Contents: Tombstone inscription or epitaph, in which the onlooker is warned of the

transience of human life and the inevitability of death.

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Title: The decay of poetry

Author: Dallaway, James

Attribution: James Dallaway

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 83

Contents: In praise of English poets of earlier times, including Chaucer and Spenser,

lamenting the death of more recent writers and regretting the absence of

successors.

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