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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"On Contentment [from The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1728
"Yet Care, a greater Tyrant, rules your Breast; / You, with a Nod, the suppliant World command, / Yet cannot rule that little Empire, Man."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)