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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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"Restoration"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
"Royalist (Pro-Stuart)"
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Date: 1667
"Whose Mirrours are the crystal Brooks, / Or else each others Hearts and Looks."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"In every Brook or Mirrour we can find / Reflections of our face to be; / But a true Optick to present our Mind / We hardly get, and darkly see."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1677
"But when Love held the Mirror, the undeceiving Glass / Reflected all the weakness of my Soul, and made me know / My richest treasure being lost, my Honour, / All the remaining spoil cou'd not be worth / The Conqueror's Care or Value."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)