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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Author ids:
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Date: w. 1739, 1762
"Ye pale Inhabitants of Night, / Before my intellectual Sight / In solemn Pomp ascend."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: w. 1739, 1762
Melancholy's "transient Forms like Shadows pass, / Frail Offspring of the magic Glass, / Before the mental Eye."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1766
"Here Death his melancholy pomp displays, / And all his terrors strike on Fancy's eye: / To Fancy's ear each hollow gale conveys, / In chilling sounds, the last expiring sigh."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)