Your search for
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Eighteenth Century"
,
"Age of Sensibility"
AND
Politics of Author:
"Tory"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Architecture"
,
"Uncategorized"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
Date: 1742
"My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1754
"If we consider them like materials, for so they may be considered likewise, employed to raise the fabric of our intellectual system, they will appear like mud, and straw, and lath, materials fit to erect some frail, and homely cottage, but not of substance, nor value sufficient for the construct...
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)