For love is but discovery:
When that is made, the pleasure's done.

Thomas Southerne

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Topic

Courtship and dating Love

Author

Thomas Southerne

Source

Sir Anthony Love

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play

Language

English

Time

1690 1690s 17th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Southerne, Thomas. Sir Anthony Love; Or, The Rambling Lady. Sept. 1690, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK.

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Southerne, Thomas. Sir Anthony Love; or, the Rambling Lady. British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011.

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It is one thing, to show a man that he is in an error; and another, to put him in possession of truth.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 4, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, ch. 7.

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Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

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Author

William Blake
Source
Songs of Experience
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Blake, William. "The Clod and the Pebble." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

Current Citation

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