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"Poetry"
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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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"Age of Sensibility"
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Metaphor Category:
"Music"
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"English"
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"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Date: 1742
"Then welcome, Death, thy dreaded harbingers, / Age and Disease: Disease, though long my guest,-- / That plucks my nerves, those tender strings of life; / Which, pluck'd a little more, will toll the bell / That calls my few friends to my funeral."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1780
"If my eventful tale / Hath touch'd the chords of pity in your heart, / And swell'd the sympathetic tear--soft tribute! / By gentle minds, to sorrow ever paid, / --Know, 'tis no stranger's woes I have related; / I am the object of my own sad story."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)