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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Ireland"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1693
"Had the too tender Gods first made / Men's Hearts as hard as Steel, / Their Weakness ne're had been betraid / By ev'ry stroak they feel."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
"Musick alone inflames my drooping Mind; / Nay, she would mount her Wings, and fly away, / Not be confin'd to this dull Lump of Clay, / Did not the Charms of Musick most divine / Unite, and things so wide, so close combine."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)