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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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"Light"
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Date: w 1710, 1720
"Whilst like the Lamp's last Flame, their trembling Souls / Are on the Wing to leave their mortal Goals."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1766
"Faction's torch of sulphurous gleam / Shall fire the heart that feels not Fancy's beam."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1771, 1776
"The gloomy race / 'By Indolence and moping Fancy bred, / 'Fear, Discontent, Solicitude give place, / 'And Hope and Courage brighten in their stead, / 'While on the kindling soul her vital beams are shed."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)