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"English"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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Gender of Author:
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Date: 1700
"Her Night-gown hanging loose, discover’d her charming Bosom, which cou’d bear no Name, but Transport, Wonder and Extasy, all which struck his Soul, as soon as the Object hit his Eye; her Breasts with an easy Heaving, show’d the Smoothness of her Soul and of her Skin; their Motions were so langui...
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
"I will not repeat to you, Madam, the divers Conflicts of my Thoughts and the Agitation of my Mind on this Occasion; for my Interior labour'd as it were under a Fever and Ague, burning with an irresistible Inclination for Marcellus"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)