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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Author name:
"Shenstone, William (1714-1763)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1755, 1773
"All the empire I had wanted / Then had been my shepherd's heart."
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Date: 1764, 1773
"But thou, my friend! while in thy youthful soul / Love's gentle tyrant seats his aweful throne, / Write from thy bosom--let not art controul / The ready pen, that makes his edicts known."
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Date: 1764, 1773
"Such is my theme, which means to prove, / That tho' we drink, or game, or love, / As that or this is most in fashion, / Precedence is our ruling passion."
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