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"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
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"Liquid"
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Nationality of Author:
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Date: 1755, 1771
"The' etherial soul that Heaven itself inspires / With all its virtues, and with all its fires, / Led by these sirens to some wild extreme, / Sets in a vapour when it ought to beam; / Like a Dutch sun that in the' autumnal sky / Looks through a fog, and rises but to die."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1788
"Hence at each sound imagination glows; / Hence his warm lay with softest sweetness flows; / Melting it flows, pure, numerous, strong and clear, / And fills the impassioned heart and lulls the harmonious ear."
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)