Now As The Paradisiacal Pleasures Of The Mahometans Consist In Playing Upon The Flute And Lying With Houris, Be Mine To Read Eternal New Romances Of Marivaux And Crebillon.

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Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing
upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new
romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
-- To Mr. West, Letter iv, Third Series

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