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"English"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Metaphor Category:
"Eating and Drinking"
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Date: 1701
"And if a bottle does their brains refine, / It makes their wit as sparkling as their wine."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 1711
"You have, in my Opinion, raised a good presumptive Argument from the increasing Appetite the Mind has to Knowledge, and to the extending its own Faculties, which cannot be accomplished, as the more restrained Perfection of lower Creatures may, in the Limits of a short Life."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)