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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Work title:
"Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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"Fire"
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"Government"
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Date: 1752, 1791
"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)