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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Politics of Author:
"Tory"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Hypochondriack, No. 7"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Date: April, 1778
"How then can we represent, by a sensible image, the mind as a theatre to its own actings? Let us conceive a spacious saloon, in which our thoughts and passions exert themselves, and let its walls be encrusted with mirrour, for the purpose of reflection, in the same manner that rooms in voluptuou...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)