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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Letter"
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"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"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:
"Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)"
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Architecture"
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Date: August 18, 1716; 1735
"If Momus’s project had taken, of having windows in our breasts, I should be for carrying it further, and making those windows casements: that while a man showed his heart to all the world, he might do something more for his friends, e’en take it out, and trust to their handling."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"The old project of a window in the bosom, to render the Soul of man visible, is what every honest friend has manifold reason to wish for; yet even that would not do in our case, while you are so far separated from me, and so long."
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