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The delights of the muses: being a collection of poems never before published. Containing, The poet; or, A Muse in Distress; in Imitation of the Splendid Shilling. Love and Beauty. On Hampstead. The Flea. The Growling Currs, Love, in four Sapphic Odes. The Lady of Taste, or Farinelli's Levée. To the Shakespear Ludies. A Dream; or, The Disappointment. On Money, an Epigram. To the Author of Pasquin. The Louse, in Imitation of the Flea. A Declaration upon Assault and Battery, in the King's-Bench. Love and Friendship. A Real Case. On a Young Lady's Sickness. The Female Saint. Apollo to Mr. Pope. On Thought. On a Flatterer. The King and the Miller of Mansfield, a Ballad, after the manner of the Faice. The Ungenerous Benefactor. With many other pieces.
Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Student dissertations
Love-sickness in tbe Seventeenth Century / Sally-Anne Phillips.
Phillips, Sally-Anne.Date: 1998- Books
Mediaeval medicine and Arcite's love sickness / M. Ciavolella.
Ciavolella, M.Date: 1979- Books
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A strange and wonderful relation of the life and death of Roger Wrightson, and Martha Railton, of the City of Durham. Shewing how the young Man fell sick on Shrove Tuesday last, and died the 13th of March following: Wherein is set forth the hard Usage which the young Woman met with during the Time of his Sickness; and upon hearing the first Toll of the passing Bell, she fainted away; but by the Shrieks and Cries of her Mother and a young Woman, call'd her back again, and in amazed Condition continued about twelve Hours, and then she died. Also, the weeping Lamentation made by both Friends at the Grave, wherein she was first decently laid, and then him; being a fit Pattern for all young Men and Women to prove constant in Love; with a Word of Advice to all hard-hearted Parents, not to cross their Children in Love. N. B. He was observed to say three Times, (just before he died) Martha, Martha, come away.
Date: 1780?]- Pictures
A woman in bed about to be cupped by a surgeon for love-sickness. Gouache, ca. 1700.
Date: 1700Reference: 2818721i