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"English"
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Work title:
"Upon Reading. Mr. Dryden's Fables. [from Miscellanies in Verse and Prose. By Mr. Jabez Hughes]"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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"Plant"
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Date: 1737
"When the luxuriant Ardour of his Youth / Succeeding Years had tam'd to better Growth, / And seem'd to break the Body's Crust away, / To give th'expanded Mind more Room to play; / Which, in its Evening, open'd on the Sight / Surprizing Beams of full Meridian Light, / As thrifty of its Splendor it...
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