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"Scottish"
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"The Charms of Indolence [from Poems on Several Occasions]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
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Date: 1732
"Malice, and Lust, voracious Birds of Prey, / That out-soar Reason, and our Wishes sway; / Desires' wild Seas, on which the wise are tost, / By Pilot Indolence, are safely crost."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)