Your search for
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
AND
Work title:
"Proverbs Exemplified, and Illustrated by Pictures from Real Life"
AND
Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
,
"French Revolution"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1790
"A hungry pauper has just received a mess of pottage from the hands of benevolence; and two or three poor wretches, as hungry as himself, are craving part of it; but he is deaf to their solicitations, and steels his heart against their wants."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1790
"Vain are a man's titles--vain his wealth--vain his pursuits of pleasure--the guilty mind has no enjoyment--neither rank nor riches can steel the breast against the stings of conscience."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)