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"English"
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Work title:
"A Dialogue between Damon and Philemon, concerning the Preference of a Town Life, to a Country Life. [from The Works]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Date: 1753
"So, gold, pernicious in its nature, may, / By souls, like yours, be bent a nobler way:/ Thus, as the needle, by magnetic force, / Once touch'd, still, to the magnet guides its course. / Trembling, while wand'ring thence, and finds no rest, / 'Till clasp'd, and fastened, to its darling breast."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)