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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic to Deist converts to Anglicanism"
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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Date: 1692
"Shall only Honour then he conjoyn'd with the Body, and with an inferiour Body, as is that of a Worm, and to the imprisoning of a Gem so precious as that, in the mire and Dirt of a filthy Morasse."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1692
"Our enticing Alurements are despised by Petrified Hearts, and impenetrable to the Impressions of amorous Passion. With Souls of Adamant they correspond with our Lives, encount'ring our Affections with peevish and wayward Scorn."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)