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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Work title:
"He Would be a Soldier. A Comedy in Five Acts."
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Date: 1786
Uncouth men may have "minds like rich metals, as yet unpurify'd from alloy; but let it once be known that the ore is gold, and the refiner's hand will soon bring forth the bullion"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)