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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Religion of Author:
"Dissenter or Nonconformist"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Politics of Author:
"Jacobin Sympathies"
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Author name:
"Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)"
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"Prose Fiction"
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Date: 1790
"The ruling passion of Mrs. Melbourne's soul was her love of her daughter; but it was carried to an excess that rendered it illiberal and selfish: her mind resembled a convex glass, and every ray of affection in her bosom was concentered in one small point."
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Date: 1790
"Her mind resembled an empty mirror, which has no character, no images of its own, borrows every impression from some passing object, and, if left to itself, would for ever remain vacant."
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