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"Tory"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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Date: 1766
"Physicians tell us of a disorder in which the whole body is so exquisitely sensible, that the slightest touch gives pain: what some have thus suffered in their persons, this gentleman felt in his mind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"Every tender epithet bestowed on her sister brought a pang to her heart and a tear to her eye; and as one vice, tho' cured, ever plants others where it has been, so her former guilt, tho' driven out by repentance, left jealousy and envy behind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)