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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Work title:
"Youth in Danger. To Menalcas. [from A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore]"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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"Government"
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"War"
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Date: 1718
"Should you presumptuous, quit your safer Ground, / And seek the utmost Lines, which Vertue bound, / And on the Frontier to engage the Foe, With Reason 's weak collected Forces go, / You'll soon those nice, ill-guarded Limits pass, / Throw down your Arms, and fond her Feet embrace, / In her soft ...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)