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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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Metaphor Category:
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
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Date: 1691
"She was the paragon of Perfection, and Loadstar of all Eyes and Hearts; and well might my Dear Father Travel seven years after her Death, before he Marryed agen, for had he don't, not seven, nor seventeen, nor seventy, but seven hundred, he'd ne're have lit upon such another."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"No--my purest pure had such a Soul, it shin'd through her Body, and such a Body, you might see her Soul through't. Which some may think much at one, but however there's a differeut conception in't, and it makes one line more to fill out the Book."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)