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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Quaker"
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Work title:
"Of Modesty [from Fruits of Retirement]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Date: 1702
"Reason, that honours Mankind more than Beast, / Gives forth its Laws and Dictates in each Breast"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
The "Memory of some doth rot"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Modesty, that in their Bosom reigns, / Detests and loaths whatever spots or stains"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
The "true Noble Mind / Conquers a Wrong by Patience, is resign'd / For Vertue's sake to bear, that Reason may / Be Re-enthron'd, and Passion pass away"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)