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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Early Seventeenth Century"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it Is; with All Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Several Cures of it"
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Metaphor Category:
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Date: 1621
" It was (as I said) once well agreeing with reason, and there was an excellent consent and harmony between them, but that is now dissolved, they often jar, reason is overborne by passion: Fertur equis auriga, nec audit currus habenas, as so many wild horses run away with a chariot, and will not ...
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)
Date: 1651
"The agent is a doctor or teacher, the passive a scholar; and his office is to keep and further judge of such things as are committed to his charge; as a bare and rased table at first, capable of all forms and notions."
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)