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Genre:
"Drama"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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"Restoration"
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Metaphor Category:
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
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Date: 1714
"Unhappy Sex! Whose easie yielding Temper / Gives Way to every Appetite alike; / Each gust of Inclination, uncontroul'd, / Sweeps thro' their Souls, and sets 'em in an uproar; / Each Motion of their Heart rises to Fury, / And Love in their weak Bosoms is a Rage / As terrible as Hate, and as destr...
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Was our Reason given / For such a Use! to be thus puff'd about / Like a dry Leaf, an idle Straw, a Feather, / The Sport of every whifling Blast that blows?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)