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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Love "
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: w. 1789, 1804
"While Vanity unveils her whiffling flags, / Her glittering trinkets, and her tawdry rags-- / Spreads spangled nets, and fills her philter'd bowl, / To fix each Sense, and fascinate the Soul-- / Her birdlime twigs contrived with such sly Art, / That while they tangle thoughts, they trap the heart...
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)