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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Metaphor Category:
"Vehicles"
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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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Date: 1715-1720
"'Tis however remarkable that his Fancy, which is every where vigorous, is not discover'd immediately at the beginning of his Poem in its fullest Splendor: It grows in the Progress both upon himself and others, and becomes on Fire like a Chariot-Wheel, by its own Rapidity."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1718
"For from most Bodies, Dick, You know,/ Some little Bits ask Leave to flow; / And, as thro' these Canals They roll, / Bring up a Sample of the Whole. / Like Footmen running before Coaches, / To tell the Inn, what Lord approaches."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)