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"Male"
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Work title:
"Youth in Danger. To Menalcas. [from A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore]"
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Literary Period:
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1718
"Now, when unbridled Passions use to reign, / While vanquish'd Reason wears the Victor's Chain, / See Pleasure, fair and smiling as the Morn, / (Soft Silks her Limbs, gay Flow'rs her Head adorn) / Which with her Breath perfumes the ambient Air, / While sporting Zephyrs heave her golden Hair, / Mi...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Should you presumptuous, quit your safer Ground, / And seek the utmost Lines, which Vertue bound, / And on the Frontier to engage the Foe, With Reason 's weak collected Forces go, / You'll soon those nice, ill-guarded Limits pass, / Throw down your Arms, and fond her Feet embrace, / In her soft ...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"And now the fair Ideas, which possest / Your Mind, by loose and vicious Thoughts opprest, / How will you wing your Way to Realms above, / And feast your Soul with Extasies of Love"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
