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"English"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Author name:
"Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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Date: 1739
"Those gifts for nobler purposes assign'd, / To raise the thoughts, and moralize the mind; / The chaste delights of virtues to inspire, / And warm the bosom with seraphic fire; / Sublime the passions, lend devotion wings, / And celebrate the first great cause of things."
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