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Work title:
"The Dance of Life, A Poem, by the author of "Doctor Syntax;" Illustrated with coloured engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson"
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Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Reform and Counterrevolution"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: 1817
"'--O let not Sloth depress to earth / 'Those early blossoms in their birth, / 'Which to your ripening mind is given, / 'To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
With "attentive hand" the "Luxuriance" of one's nature may be pruned so that branches will bear fruit
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown / As buds, will in the Boy be known: / In Youth, as blossoms will appear, / And in full Manhood, fruitage bear."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)