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Literary Period
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Early Modern
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Early Seventeenth Century
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Mineral
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Physics (2)
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Poetry
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Male
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"On Happiness"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Early Seventeenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Date: 1658
"And in the furnace of affliction, / Their drossie souls thou dost refine"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"As by instinct the Loadstone draws / The iron, as the Amber straws; / So let thy grace mine heart attract, / Dear Lord!"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"O make me have respect / To all thy righteous Laws, begin / To purge out all my dross: my Tinn / Remove far from me"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"Cleanse me from soul infecting sin, / And purely purg away my dross, / O do thou take from me my Tin;"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
