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AND Nationality of Author: "English"

AND Genre: "Prose"

AND Gender of Author: "Male"

AND Literary Period: "Eighteenth Century"

, "Age of Sensibility"

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Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)

"The action of the pen will doubtless imprint an idea on the mind as well as on the paper: but I much question whether the benefits of this laborious method are adequate to the waste of time; and I must agree with Dr. Johnson, (Idler, No. 74.) 'that what is twice read, is commonly better remember...