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Matthew Prior

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. English poet and diplomat

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Top 5 Poems

1	A Simile
2	A Better Answer
3	Jinny the Just
4	On My Birthday July 21
5	A True Maid

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A Better Answer

A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley when a Child

A Reasonable Affliction

For my own Monument

Horace Lib. I Epist. IX Imitated

On My Birthday July 21

The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus

The Merchant To Secure His Treasure

The Question to Lisetta

To a Child of Quality Five Years Old 1704. The Author then Forty

To Chloe Jealous

Articles

Articles about Matthew Prior or articles that mention Matthew Prior.

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

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Quote Left The ends must justify the means.
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Quote Left In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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Quote Left Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
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Quote Left A diff'rent cause, says Parson Sly, The same effect may give: Poor Lubin fears, that he shall die; His wife, that he may live.
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Quote Left Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
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