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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
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"French"
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"Materialist or Mortalist"
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Metaphor Category:
"Music"
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Author name:
"Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"As the string of a violin or harpsichord trembles and vibrates, so the fibres or strings of the brain struck by the undulating rays of sound, are excited to return or repeat the words that touched them."
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