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"Plant"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Author name:
"Home, John (1722-1808)"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Genre:
"Drama"
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Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Sadly he says, that pity is the best, / The noblest passion of the human breast: / For when its sacred streams the heart o'erflow, / In gushes pleasure with the tide of woe; / And when its waves retire, like those of Nile, / They leave behind them such a golden soil, / That there the virtues wit...
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