,
"Augustan"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Government"
AND
Genre:
"Poetry"
AND
Politics of Author:
"Whiggish"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Date: 1727
"[T]umultuous Whims to Faction prone" may justle "Monarch Reason from her Throne"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
A "little Loves" empire over swains' Hearts may be frail until Miranda crowns the Triumphs
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"The Wretch is indigent and poor, / Who brooding sits o'er his ill-gotten Store; / Trembling with Guilt, and haunted by his Sin, / He feels the rigid Judge within"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
In the great hero's breast "no unruly Passions reign, / Nor servile Fear, nor proud Disdain, / Each wilder Lust is banish'd hence, / Where gentle Love presides, and mild Benevolence."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)


