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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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"Government"
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Date: w. before 1717? (first published 1989)
"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)