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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Ghost"
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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:
"Government"
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"War"
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Date: 1762-3
"[T]he five senses in alliance [may] / To Reason hurl a proud defiance, / And, though oft conquer'd, yet unbroke, / Endeavour to throw off that yoke / Which they a greater slavery hold / Than Jewish bondage was of old"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"This glorious system form'd for man / To practise when and how he can, / If the five senses in alliance / To Reason hurl a proud defiance, / And, though oft conquer'd, yet unbroken, / Endeavour to throw off that yoke / Which they a greater slavery hold / Than Jewish bondage was of old."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)