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LINES WRITTEN IN ROUSSEAU'S LETTERS OF AN ITALIAN NUN. by GEORGE GORDON BYRON

Poet Analysis

First Line: AWAY, AWAY, YOUR FLATTERING ARTS
Last Line: AND THEY SHALL WEEP AT YOUR DECEIVING.'
Subject(s): FLATTERY; DECEIT;
(AND AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN: BY
J.J. ROUSSEAU: FOUNDED ON FACTS')

'AWAY, away, your flattering arts
May now betray some simpler hearts;
And you will smile at their believing,
And they shall weep at your deceiving.'





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