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"English"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
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Author name:
"Pomfret, John (1667-1702)"
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Religion of Author:
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Date: 1700
"On these [passions] the Soul, as on some Flowing Tide, / Must sit, and on the raging Billows Ride, / Hurry'd away, for how can be withstood / Th' Impetuous Torrent of the boiling Blood?"
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Date: 1700
The "Trading Mind" must voyage over an Ocean, but "Resisting Rocks oppose th' Inquiring Soul, / And adverse Waves retard it as they Rowl."
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