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Genre:
"Drama"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Augustan"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Politics of Author:
"Whig"
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Date: 1704
"Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1720
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Date: 1722
One's head and heart may be "on the rack" about something worrisome
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)