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"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Population"
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Date: 1769
"He knew when to distract its weak brain with a tumult of incongruous and contradictory ideas: he knew when to overwhelm its feeble faculty of thinking, by pouring in a torrent of words without any ideas annexed. These throng in like city-milliners to a Mile-end assembly, while it happens to be u...
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1769
"I can assure thee, Peacock, that Richard was a prince of a very agreeable aspect, and excelled in every personal accomplishment; neither was his heart a stranger to the softer passions of tenderness and pity"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)