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Joanna Baillie: Words of affection,...

Source: DRAMATISTS

Words of affection, howso'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Source: Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on Her Birthday, 11.125-126.
-- Joanna Baillie, (Sep 11 1762-1851), Scottish poet, dramatist; Her plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline; wrote her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol., 1798-1812.


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