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Politics of Author:
"Opposition (pro-Wilkesite)"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Work title:
"Fortune. A Rhapsody [from A Collection of Original Poems]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1755
The "busy Statesman's mind" may grow putrid on the throne of power so that "Fresh vices spring up ev'ry hour; / As in dead corses serpents breed, / And loathsome, on corruption feed"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1755
Samuel Johnson has a "well-turn'd mind" and a "genius pure, as gold refin'd"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)