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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"The Secret History of Queen Zarah"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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"War"
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Date: 1705
"This Virtue is a Gift of Piety, a Sweetness of Spirit; for Clemency is of an Heroick Essence; and the Defection of that Active and Unbridled Passion, which oppugns it, and seems to check it, is the most Wonderful Effect, that they who exercise this Virtue, are able to produce, and the Victory go...
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)