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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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"Poetry"
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Work title:
"The Nature of Man. A Poem. In Three Books."
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Date: 1711
"Passions impatient of the Rein, disown / Reason's Dominion, and usurp her Throne."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1711
"Fierce is their [natives of hot climates] Rage, and all the Savage Beast / Reigns in their Soul, and haunts their desart Breast; / Where Hate, Revenge, and Jealousy are bred, / And livid Envy hides her spleenful Head."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)