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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Work title:
"The Regulation of the Passions, The Source of Human Happiness. A Moral Essay."
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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"Weather"
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Date: 1755, 1771
"The' etherial soul that Heaven itself inspires / With all its virtues, and with all its fires, / Led by these sirens to some wild extreme, / Sets in a vapour when it ought to beam; / Like a Dutch sun that in the' autumnal sky / Looks through a fog, and rises but to die."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)