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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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Work title:
"Love in Excess: or the Fatal Enquiry, a Novel"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"A most susceptible and tender Heart? -- Yes, you may feel it throb, it beats against my Breast, like an imprison'd Bird, and fain would burst it's Cage! to fly to you, the Aim of all its Wishes!"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Nor was he less dissolv'd in Rapture, both their Souls seem'd to take Wing together, and left their Bodies motionless, as unworthy to bear a Part in their more elevated Bliss."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)