Your search for
Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
AND
Politics of Author:
"Whig"
AND
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
,
"Eighteenth Century"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Work title:
"Tatler, No. 33"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"War"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: Thursday, June 23, to Saturday, June 25, 1709
"The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it; and she that has got over such a one as mine, will stand among beaux and pretty fellows, with as much safety as in a summer's day among grasshoppers and butterflies."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)