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"Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)"
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"Opposition Patriot"
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"Drama"
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"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Government"
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Date: 1739
"Base Fear, the Laziness of Lust, gross Appetites, / These are the Ladders, and the groveling Footstool, / From whence the Tyrant rises on our Wrongs, / Secure and scepter'd in the Soul's Servility."
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Date: 1739
"I am all / That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul, / To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps / Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind, / True Seat of all Dominion."
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