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Literary Period:
"Nineteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: 1810
"And these young ruffians in the soul will sow / Seeds of all vices that on weakness grow."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: September, 1838
"The tree of my mind of its leaves is stripped, my witticisms too fine are clipped, the kernel out of the shell has been nipped."
preview | full record— Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
" For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious p...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
