Oliver Goldsmith 
An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize 

An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize is an illustrated poem penned by Oliver Goldsmith. Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish story writer, playwright, dramatist and lyricist. Excerpt: ‘But now, her wealth and finery fled,
Her hangers-on cut short-all:
The Doctors found, when she was dead
Her last disorder mortal.

Let us lament, in sorrow sore,
For Kent Street well may say,
That had she lived a twelvemonth more, —
She had not died to-day.’