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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Genre:
"Drama"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy."
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Date: 1700, 1702
"What is the Soul of Man but Light, / Drawn down from thy transcendant height? / What but an Intellectual Beam? / A Spark of thy immortal Flame?"
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Date: 1700, 1702
"A Beam of Hope, / Strikes thro' my Soul, like the first Infant Light, / That glanc'd upon the Chaos."
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Date: 1700, 1702
"And all fires those that lighted up my Soul / Glory and bright Ambition languish now, / And leave me dark and gloomy as the Grave."
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