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Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
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Work title:
"Dr. Bathurst's Verses on Mr. Hobbs's Book of Human Nature. [from Poems: Consisting of Originals and Translations]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Date: 1725
"In Pieces took here we are shewn the whole / Clock-work and Mechanism of the Soul; / May see the Movements, Labyrinths, and Strings, / Its Wires, and Wheels, and Balances, and Springs; / How 'tis wound up to its full Height, and then / What checks, and stops, and settles it again."
preview | full record— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)