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Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room

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Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room

Caroline Howard Gilman

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Ask a question, open the pages, and let the poets answer for you. Caroline Gilman's drawing-room diversion works like a parlor oracle: what is your character, what does your true love look like, each query met by a numbered passage of verse. Directions included, dignity optional. The nineteenth-century party game that ran entirely on poetry.

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20 chapters

  1. 1ORACLES FROM THE POETS.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS
  4. 4DIRECTIONS
  5. 5WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER?
  6. 6GENTLEMAN.
  7. 7WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER?
  8. 8LADY.
  9. 9WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF YOUR LADY-LOVE?
  10. 10WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF HIM WHO LOVES YOU?
  11. 11WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OF YOUR LADY-LOVE?
  12. 12WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OF HIM WHO LOVES YOU?
  13. 13WHAT SEASON OF THE YEAR DO YOU LOVE?
  14. 14WHAT HOUR DO YOU LOVE?
  15. 15WHAT MUSICAL SOUNDS DO YOU LOVE?
  16. 16WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER?
  17. 17WHAT GRATIFIES YOUR TASTE OR YOUR AFFECTIONS?
  18. 18FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A DISTASTE OR AVERSION?

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