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"Scottish"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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"To --------- [from Poems on Several Occasions]"
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Date: 1732
"Bind up bold Thought, in Slumber's silky Chain, / Since all we act, and all we know, is vain."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1760
"There is a certain pleasing force that binds, / Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)