The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… To sing the full dull Drawing-room. Where the dire Circle keeps its station, Each common phrase is an oration; And cracking fans, and whisp'ring Misses, Compose their Conversation blisses. The matron marks the goodly show, While the tall … Chemists too, who want the essence, Which makes or mars all coalescence, Of her the secret rare might get, How different kinds amalgamate: And he, who wilder studies chose, Find here a new metempsychose; How forms can other forms assume, … who, from college, Reject the rust, and bring the knowledge; And, hear it, age, believe it, youth, Polemics, really seeking truth; And Travellers of that rare tribe, Who've seen the countries they describe; Who study'd there, so strange …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
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