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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver [from The Works]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Liquid"
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"Optics"
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Date: 1735
"He seemed therefore confident, that instead of Reason, we were only possessed of some Quality fitted to increase our natural Vices; as the Reflection from a troubled Stream returns the Image of an ill-shapen Body, not only larger, but more distorted."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)