The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend, Awhile my idle strain attend: Not with the days of early Greece, I mean to ope my slender piece; The rare Symposium to proclaim Which crown'd th' … social name; Or how Aspasia's parties shone, The first Bas-bleu at Athens known; Where SOCRATES unbending sat, With ALCIBIADES in chat; And PERICLES vouchsafed to mix Taste, wit, and mirth, with politics. Nor need I stop my tale to show, At least to readers such as you, How all that Rome …
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