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Religion of Author:
"Dissenter or Nonconformist"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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"Government"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Date: 1706, 1709
"We are a little Kingdom; But the Man / That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne, / Forms it a large one."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Yet not by all / Those lying forms which fancy in the brain / Engenders, are the kindling passions driven, / To guilty deeds; nor reason bound in chains, / That vice alone may lord it: oft adorn'd / With solemn pageants, folly mounts the throne, / And plays her idiot-anticks, like a queen. / A t...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)