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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Author name:
"Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: c. 1695-8 [published 1907]
"You o'er my heart were born to reign / And bravely took it by Invasion."
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Date: 1704
"When gentle Reason rules thy Breast; / The Sun upon the calmest Sea / Appears not half so bright as Thee."
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Date: 1709 [1708]
"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love."
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