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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican (High Church)"
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Work title:
"On Patience. Written at the Request of a Friend."
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1773, 1814
"The bustling World, to fetch her out from thence, / Will urge the various, plausible Pretence; / Will praise Perfections of a grander Name, / Sound great Exploíts, and call her out to Fame; / Amuse and flatter, till the Soul, too prone / To Self-activity, deserts her Throne."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)