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"English"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1763
"If you now refuse, you have the heart of a tygress, and delight in the misery of others."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1766
"[A] little cunning is sufficient to enable us to take advantage of the discovery; for cunning attains its little ends more surely than wisdom; like the despicable mole which works its way through the greatest mountains, while the noble lion cannot penetrate one foot deep into the earth"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)