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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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"Female"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Author name:
"Edgeworth, Maria"
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Date: 1798
"Objects or thoughts, that have been associated with pleasure, retain the power of pleasing; as the needle touched by the loadstone acquires polarity, and retains it long after the loadstone is withdrawn."
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Date: 1798
"In making observations upon subjects which are new to us, we must be content to use our memory unassisted at first by our reason; we must treasure up the ore and rubbish together, because we cannot immediately distinguish them from each other."
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