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"Animals"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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"Poetry"
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"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"So the brave Falcon when its glorys fade / When its strong wings their generous forces shed / The vacant holds ignobler birds supply / With Ravens feathers impd she mounts on high / & weak or giddy strayes along the sky."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: March 13, 1727
"Must these like empty shadows pass, / Or forms reflected from a glass? / Or mere chimeras in the mind, / That fly, and leave no marks behind?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)