notes.
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In learned Berkeley's fabled theme,
Philosophy's poetic dream."
Philosophy's poetic dream."
"The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca," said to have been written by Bishop Berkeley.
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But Flora's characters exprest
The wishes of each blameless breast.
The wishes of each blameless breast.
"If the man be the person the woman likes, he presents her with a flower just in the bud, which she takes, and puts in her breast. If she is engaged before, she shows him one, to signify her engagement; which, if in the bud only, shows the courtship is gone no further than the first proposal and liking; if half blown, or the like, it is an emblem of further progress; if full blown, it signifies that her choice is determined, from whence they can never recede."
Gaudentio di Lucca, page 182.
