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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
"Jacobin Sympathies"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Author name:
"Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Date: 1784
"I hurry forward, passion's helplesss slave! And scorning reason's mild and sober light, / Pursue the path that leads me to the grave!"
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Date: 1786
"So o'er my soul short rays of reason fly, / Then fade:--and leave me, to despair and die!"
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Date: 1786
"But when thy envied sanction crowns my lays, / A ray of pleasure lights my languid mind, / For well I know the value of thy praise."
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