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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Life of John Buncle, Esq."
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Metaphor Category:
"Vehicles"
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Date: 1756, 1766
"As the instincts and passions were wisely and kindly given us, to subserve many purposes of our present state, let them have their proper, subaltern share of action; but let reason ever have the sovereignty, (the divine law of reason and truth) and be, as it were, sail and wind to the vessel of ...
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"This is beyond the reach of our conception. Imagination cannot plumb her line so low."
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)