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"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
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"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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Metaphor Category:
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Date: 1721
"Bless God, who did not give our Soul / To their sharp Teeth a Prey."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1721
"Our Soul, as from a broken Snare / A Bird escapes, is fled."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1745
"Keep strongly in the hot rebellious Mind, / Be it with Bits restrain'd, and Curbs confin'd. / The docile Horse in prime of Years is broke / To bear the Rein, or stretch beneath the Yoke."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)