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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Dissenter or Nonconformist"
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Work title:
"The Spleen. An Epistle Inscribed to his particular Friend Mr. C. J."
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"In rainy days keep double guard, / Or spleen will surely be too hard, / Which, like those fish by sailors met, / Flies highest, while its wings are wet."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)