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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Ode XVIII. To Quintus Varus [from The Odes of Horace]"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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"Optics"
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Date: 1712, 1719
"God of the Grape, I'll wisely use / Thy heav'nly Gifts, nor will disclose / Thy sacred Rites; do thou asswage / My burning Soul, and curb thy Rage: / Lest to new hateful Crimes I run: / Lest Vanity seize Reason's Throne, / And wretched I to open Day / The Secrets of the Night betray, / And my He...
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)