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"English"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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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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Gender of Author:
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Work title:
"On Contentment [from The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison]"
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Date: 1728
One may lull his raging Thoughts to rest "And calm the Tempest rising in [his] Breast"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"Go, vain mistaken Man, if you would find / That golden Ore, Contentment of the Mind, / Depart from all these busy Ills of Life /And live exempt from Pride, and Noise and Strife"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"Yet Care, a greater Tyrant, rules your Breast; / You, with a Nod, the suppliant World command, / Yet cannot rule that little Empire, Man."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)