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    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)
    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)
    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)
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    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 12, 2019
    ISBN4064066206703
    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)
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    Harry Graham

    The author is happily married and living in Pennsylvania.

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      The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) - Harry Graham

      Harry Graham

      The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066206703

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      FOREWORD

      THE WORLD WE LAUGH IN!

      ['Sadness, once a favourite pose of poets, is no longer fashionable. Nowadays melancholy people are looked upon as depressing.'—The Gentlewoman.]

      RHYMES FOR THE TIMES

      'WHAT'S IN A NAME?'

      [Lord Lincolnshire pointed out that Britain's glory has always depended very largely upon men whose names suggest no historical associations; upon the Browns and the McGhees, as well as upon the Willoughbys, the Talbots, and the Cecils.]

      NOBODY'S DARLING!

      ['Nobody loves millionaires any more.'—Mr. Zimmerman.]

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