Certainly the plot drags, the characterisation is wooden, and the book is weighed down by ponderous speeches. In the opening domestic scene, Toussaint's son is helped to read the word Epictetus
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Tipper
When Tipper writes Of Love she writes of a racking Passion which falsely lays claim to the title that belongs to religious feeling, and must be combated by Heavenly Grace.
Tipper, Elizabeth. The Pilgrim’s Viaticum. Printed by J. Wilkins, 1698.
