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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Materialist or Mortalist"
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Metaphor Category:
"Motion"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Work title:
"L'Homme machine [Man a Machine]"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
Date: 1748, 1749
"Like that bird on yonder spray, the imagination seems to be perpetually ready to take wing."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
Date: 1748, 1749
"As the string of a violin or harpsichord trembles and vibrates, so the fibres or strings of the brain struck by the undulating rays of sound, are excited to return or repeat the words that touched them."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)