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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Work title:
"Verses to a Lady, on Her Saying She Preferred Commonalty to an Irish Peerage. May 20th, 1776"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Metaphor Category:
"Money"
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Date: w. 1776, 1793
"His pocket and his skull are brothers, / They thrive by borrowing from others; / I thank my stars, with heart sincere, / I was not born to be a Peer."
preview | full record— Burrell [née Raymond, later Clay], Sophia, Lady Burrell (1750-1802)