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Desolate musings on friendship and loss amid Lysander and Clarissa
An 18th century prose piece laments returning sorrow after friendship and love. Lysander endures Clarissa’s terminal illness and death, recalling their pious bond and the consolation of a future reunion, while praising friendship as a divine, stabilizing force despite mortal grief.
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Lysander
Clarissa
Earth
Empyrean
Sickney
Lysander Posfessed
Claré Flatslett
C. Juvenil
T. D
Berry and Wenham
Grocer's-Aley
London
Craig’s Court
Charing-Cross
Wich