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Jane Brereton
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Jane Brereton (1685 – 1740) was a Welsh poet, notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine.
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The picture placed the busts betweenAdds to the thought much strength;Wisdom and Wit are little seen,But Folly's at full length.
On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope., in Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses. This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, English Poets, note, p. 521. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Category:Poets from Wales
Category:Women authors from the United Kingdom
Category:Women from Wales
Category:1685 births
Category:1740 deaths