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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"Upon Reading. Mr. Dryden's Fables. [from Miscellanies in Verse and Prose. By Mr. Jabez Hughes]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Motion"
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Date: 1737
"As Years advance, th'abated Soul in most / Sinks to low Ebb, in second Childhood lost; / And feeble Age, dishonouring our Kind, / Robs all the Treasures of the wasted Mind"
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)