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"English"
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Work title:
"A Poem To the Memory of Mrs Oldfield, Inscrib'd to the Honourable Brigadier Charles Churchill"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1730, 1731
"But now, my Muse, the arduous Task engage, / And show the Charming Figure on the Stage, / Describe her Look, her Action, Voice and Mein, / The gay Coquette, soft Maid, or haughty Queen, / So bright she [Mrs. Oldfield] shone in every different Part, / She gain'd despotick Empire o'er the Heart, /...
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)