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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1755
"Prest with heart corroding grief and years, / To the gay court a rural shed prefers."
preview | full record— Pope [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, / A lad of life, and imp of fame."
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Such iron hearts we are, and such / The base barbarity of human kind."
preview | full record— Rowe [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Both kinds of metal he prepar'd, / Either to give blows or to ward; / Courage and steel both of great force"
preview | full record— Butler [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
