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