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Literary Period
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Age of Sensibility
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Early Modern
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Industrial Revolution
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Long Eighteenth Century
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Prose
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Male
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Irish or Anglo-Irish
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: April, 1762
"The metaphor is a shorter simile, or rather a kind of magical coat, by which the same idea assumes a thousand different appearances."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"We should find her, if any sensible defect appeared in the mind, more careful in rectifying it, than plaistering up the irreparable decays of the person; nay, I am even apt to fancy, that ladies would find more real pleasure in this utensil in private, than in any other bauble imported from Chin...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Mr. Showman, cried she, approaching, I am told you has something to shew in that there sort of magic lanthorn, by which folks can see themselves on the inside; I protest, as my lord Beetle says, I am sure it will be vastly pretty, for I have never seen any thing like it before. But how; are we t...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
