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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Dress"
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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"Expression is the dress of thought, and still / Appears more decent, as more suitable."
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Date: 1717
"The nymph her graces here express'd may find, / And by this picture learn to dress her mind."
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Date: w. 1737, published 1738
"But when no Prelate's Lawn with Hair-shirt lin'd, / Is half so incoherent as my Mind, / When (each Opinion with the next at strife, / One ebb and flow of follies all my Life) / I plant, root up, I build, and then confound, / Turn round to square, and square again to round."
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