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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
"Tory"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Author name:
"Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Date: 1705
"For tho' he had a Head as well qualified for Business as any Man Born, his Heart was all made up of Pleasure, which was the Loadstone govern'd all the Actions of his Life, which might have been as Glorious as the Riches of Albigion, and the entire Affection of the People cou'd make them."
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Date: 1710
"In that Particular I was sure my fair Agnes was exceeded by none; her Charms were faultless and peculiar, but her Mind was a Rock upon which my Resolution struck."
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