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On wisdom's defeat : In a learned debate.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Teerink Collection Folio Broadside Box Item 8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Common, Rose, pseudonym.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and government.
- Ireland--Politics and government--18th century--Poetry.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 31 x 20 cm (folio)
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Printed by Sarah Harding on the Blind-Key, [1725]
- Notes:
- Possibly by Swift ; in Teerink (1172). Not in Teerink-Scouten.
- Signed: Rose Common, shameless woman.
- In verse -- "Minerva has vow'd since the bishops do slight her".
- Satire on the Irish House of lords; the work was ordered burned by the common hangman & the printer was taken into custody.
- OCLC:
- 49328909
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