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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Work title:
"The Sceptick, against Mechanism. [from Miscellany Poems. By Tho. Heyrick]"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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"Motion"
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Date: 1691
The Soul's a Particle of Heavenly fire, / And boldly doth to every thing aspire: / But yet how low Her lofty Flights do fall; / When She attempts the Wonders of this Ball!"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"What Energy doth thrô his Vitals move; / What Magick Charm doth stirr him up to Love? / When Thoughts on winged Particles advance, / When piercing Looks the Lover's mutually entrance, / And their Souls on the fiery Atoms dance?"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)