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"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"So the brave Falcon when its glorys fade / When its strong wings their generous forces shed / The vacant holds ignobler birds supply / With Ravens feathers impd she mounts on high / & weak or giddy strayes along the sky."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1762
"Therefore, I have no one notion, / That is not form'd, like the designing / Of the peristaltick motion; / Vermicular; twisting and twining; / Going to work / Just like a bottle-skrew upon a cork."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)