The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… plead, I'll quote some Greek I cannot read; Stunn'd by Authority you yield, And I, not reason, keep the field. Long was Society o'er-run By Whist, that desolating Hun; Long did Quadrille despotic sit, That Vandal of colloquial wit; And … Queen, divine Simplicity! But forc'd Conceit, which ever fails, And, stff Antithesis prevails; Uneasy rivalry destroys Society's unlabour'd joys: NATURE, of stilts and fetters tir'd, Impatient from the Wits retir'd; Long time the Exile …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
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