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Literary Period
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Age of Sensibility
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Early Modern (4)
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Eighteenth Century
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Long Eighteenth Century
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Metaphor Category
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Population
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Government (1)
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Gender of Author
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Female
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Nationality of Author
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Irish or Anglo-Irish
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1733, 1748
"O falsely deemed the foe of sacred wit! / Thou [Memory], who the nurse and guardian art of it, / Laying it up till season due and fit."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1765
"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1767
"If this be all, cried Nourjahad, then am I sure I shall never incur the penalty; for though I mean to enjoy all the pleasures that life can bestow, yet am I a stranger to my own heart, if it ever lead me to the wilful commission of a crime."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1775
"An evil conscience is a shrew, and gives most shocking curtain lectures."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
