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Anna Letitia Barbauld: Forgotten rimes, and...

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Forgotten rimes, and college themes,
Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes;
A mass of heterogeneous matter.
A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

Source: An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. [Joseph] Priestley,s* Study, Poems, 1773.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld, (Jun 20 1743-1825), English poet, writer; She was one of the foremost radical intellectual women of her time; edited the fifty volumes of The British Novelists, 1810.


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