,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Augustan"
,
"Early Modern"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Church of Ireland"
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Date: 1704
"They hold also, that these animals are of a constitution extremely cold; that their food is the air we attract, their excrement phlegm; and that what we vulgarly called rheums, and colds, and distillations, is nothing else but an epidemical looseness, to which that little commonwealth is very su...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1744
"I do verily think there is not any other medicine whatsoever so effectual to restore a crazy constitution, and cheer a dreary mind, or so likely to subvert that gloomy empire of the spleen (Sect. 103) which tyrannizeth over the better sort (as they are called) of these free nations, and maketh t...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)


