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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Work title:
"Douglas: A Tragedy"
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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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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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"Liquid"
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Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Would thou wert not / Compos'd of grief and tenderness alone, / But had'st a spark of other passions in thee, / Pride, anger, vanity, the strong desire / Of admiration, dear to woman kind;/ These might contend with, and allay thy grief, / As meeting tides and currents smooth our firth."
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