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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Date: 1760
"O happy stroke, that bursts the bonds of clay, / Darts through the rending gloom the blaze of day, / And wings the soul with boundless flight to soar, / Where dangers threat, and fears alarm no more."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1786
"But if (which Pow'rs above prevent) / That iron-hearted carl, Want, / Attended, in his grim advances, / By sad mistakes, and black mischances"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)