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"On Happiness"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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Date: 1702
"We'll think she brings with her Estate a Mind, / Pure as her Sterling, from it's Dross Refin'd."
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1734
"Conscience hears / The words of anguish, and dissolves in tears. / Ev'n iron souls relent, and hearts of stone / Burst at these mournings, and repeat the groan:"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1738
"The Grecian Prince the Love of Virtue taught: / With Fortitude and Patience steel'd his Breast."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
