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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Deist or Theist"
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Metaphor Category:
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Genre:
"Prose"
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"Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author [collected in Characteristics]"
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Date: 1710, 1714
The Parallel is easily made on the side of Writers. They have at least as much need of learning the several Motions, Counterpoises and Ballances of the Mind and Passions, as the other Students those of the Body and Limbs."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1710, 1714
""For according as these Passions veer, my Interest veers, my Steerage varies; and I make alternately, now this, now that, to be my Course and Harbour."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)