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Literary Period
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Age of Sensibility
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Early Modern
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Eighteenth Century
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Industrial Revolution
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Long Eighteenth Century
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Fetters
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Gender of Author
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Male
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Opposition Whig
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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Date: 1760
"That the young sorcerer's fatal hand / Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1775
"Yet--yet--perhaps your high respect alone for this solemn compact has fettered your inclinations, which else had made worthier choice."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1777
"Not like a cloyster'd drone, to read and doze, / In undeserving, undeserv'd repose; / But reason's influence to diffuse; to clear / The enlighten'd world of every gloomy fear; / Dispel the mists of error, and unbind / Those pedant chains that clog the freeborn mind."
preview | full record— Lyttleton, George, 1st Baron Lyttleton (1709-1773)
Date: February 24, 1777; 1781
"She is the deceitful sorceress who now holds your husband's heart in bondage."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
