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Politics of Author:
"From Radical to Anti-Jacobin"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1773
"Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art / Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast:"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1787
"Your heavy fat, I will maintain, / Is perfect birdlime of the brain; / And, as to goldfinches the birdlime clings-- / Fat holds ideas by the legs and wings."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1787
"Fat flattens the most brilliant thoughts, / Like the buff-stop on harpsichords, or spinets-- / Muffling their pretty little tuneful throats, / That would have chirp'd away like linnets."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)