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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"English"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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"Fire"
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Author name:
"Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)"
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Date: 1752, 1791
"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."
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