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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Gender of Author:
"Unknown"
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Work title:
"The Mirror; a Panegyrical, Satirical, and Thespian Epistle in Rhyme"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: 1790
"I shall, perhaps, deserve censure for concealing a name which belongs to so much excellence, but I fear to offend the delicacy of your nature; true merit is ever modest, and your mind, like the sensitive plant at the touch, would shrink from the voice of public celebrity."
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