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Age of Sensibility
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Early Modern
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Augustan (3)
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Poetry (6)
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Male
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"Books"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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Date: 1741-2
"When no malignant fever fires the brain, / And health luxuriant revels in each vein, / Tho' sunk in sloth, from all diseases free, / In dropsies, you will run to Reeve or Lee."
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1741-2
"Whate'er offends the sight we shun with haste, / And shall the mind's disease for ever last?"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1741-2
A "wounded conscience" may throb beneath a star, and shake one's "fabric with intestine war"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1752
"Worse than the other--Whom, thus robb'd of Pow'r. / His former Passions fatally devour!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Well! does that make you wise, / Or open on your Follies, Reason's Eyes!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
