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"English"
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"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"[Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale in Two Volumes"
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"Architecture"
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"Government"
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"Population"
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Date: 1759
"He shewed, with great strength of sentiment, and variety of illustration, that human nature is degraded and debased, when the lower faculties predominate over the higher; that when fancy, the parent of passion, usurps the dominion of the mind, nothing ensues but the natural effect of unlawful go...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)