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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:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Politics of Author:
"Tory"
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Work title:
"The Citizen of the World"
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"His boasted reason seems only to light him astray, and brutal instinct more regularly points out the path to happiness."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Where, I again repeat it, is human reason! not only some men, but whole nations, seem divested of its illumination."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Reason cannot resolve. It lends a ray to shew the horrors of my prison, but not a light to guide me to escape them."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)