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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.
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.
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.