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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Work title:
"The Highlanders, and other poems. By Mrs. Grant, Laggan. Second edition"
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Literary Period:
"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: 1808
"With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"Draw close those ties, so fine and yet so strong, / That gently lead the willing soul along, / Nor crush beneath oppression's iron rod / The kindred image of the parent God; / Nor think that rigour's galling chains can bind / The native force of the superior mind."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)