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"English"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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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 Humour of the Age. A Comedy."
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Metaphor Category:
"Motion"
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Date: 1701
"Stand by ye Fools--That noble Theam's my share,/ Farce is a Strain too low to court the Fair; / When to that pitch your Thoughts attempt to fly, / Like unskill'd Icarus you soar too high."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1701
"Thro' Heat of Youth, her Fancy vainly roves, / And she acts just as every Whimsy moves."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)