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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Religion of Author:
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Date: 1693
"(Yet what smooth Sycophant by thee can gain? / When Lust it self strikes thy Flint-Heart in vain?)"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1693
"Yet, thy moist Clay is pliant to Command; / Unwrought, and easie to the Potter's hand: / Now take the Mold; now bend thy Mind to feel / The first sharp Motions of the Forming Wheel."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"As softest metals are not slow to melt, / And pity soonest runs in gentle minds:"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)