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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Work title:
"The Adventures of David Simple"
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Date: 1744, 1753
"A Metaphor from Mechanism, I think, will very plainly illustrate my Thoughts on this Subject [of wit and judgment]: For let a Machine, of any kind, be joined together by an ingenious Artist, and I dare say, he will be best able to take it apart again: a Bungler, or an ignorant Person, perhaps, m...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)