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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Author name:
"Duff, William (1732-1815)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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Date: 1767
"One obvious effect of it is, that it confines the attention to artificial rules, and ties the mind down to the observance of them, perhaps at the very time that the imagination is upon the stretch, and grasping at some idea astonishingly great, which however it is obliged, though with the utmost...
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